Take your pick ... Cwn carn (Wales), Hamsterely (Newcastle), Fort William (Scotland) 

talk about jumping in at the deep end

Les Gets/Morzine?

You can get a fairly cheap trip over there, and its what i'm doing once my exams are over...

CMW carn looks like a good place, what I've seen looks fun, and the freeride aspect is great.

Out of interest which solid are you getting?

where do you live? if there are any hills around make a track that is hard enough for you ...

O/T: They are some seriously wide bars for a hardtail, i've heard of jumping on bandwaggons but jeeeez!

Good tracks, try websites like "more dirt" "gravity-slaves" and the google maps thread in here for ideas, 1st 2 you can search by region and google obvioulsy you can zoom in or out to whatever your desired range is.

All the race organisers sites have track listings aswell so try them, sda, nps, midlands (pearce cycles), dragons etc.
They obviously use the better tracks in their respective areas.....

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Seriously if your talking about actually going somewhere rather than looking for some local trails then goto Whistler...if Jesus was an downhiller Whistler would be Jerusalem.

If your looking for something closer to home Peebles has some great DH on offer in the form of Innerliethen. It also has the Kona Slope Style play park and a rather cool duel track for a bit of a laugh and also the Glentress trail center if you fancy doing some pedaling while your at it. Good allround place to go with all your bikes.