A ride with the kids in Glenmore today. The number and length of skid marks (of the tyre variety) at Piccadilly, where the Larig Ghru trail pops out onto the main track, were unnecessary. This indicates numerous riders, emerging at speed and skidding like dicks. I can only imagine the high-five-fest that ensued. Before anyone says it, I don't think many people hire a bike and head off to take the Larig Ghru single track. Definitely experienced riders.
A wee sidetrack popped us out onto the Glenmore road, and we needed to ride towards Aviemore a bit to regain the Old Logging trail. It is a NSL road, but sadly the closest pass came from a car with a mountain bike on the back. Again, judging by the bike, an experienced rider.
Sometimes we are our own worst enemies when it comes to public perceptions.
Welcome to the e-bike era, troutwrestler, where you can indeed hire a bike and head off to take the Larig Ghru single track. Nothing could be simpler. Then, when the rocks look a bit big and the full English starts to weigh heavy, turn round and carve up the forest with obese skidmarks.
An easy tail to pin on ebikers, except the number of skids exceeded the total number of ebikers I saw all weekend in Inchriach and Glenmore.
And I don't think the car was a hybrid/electric either, although it was hard to tell at the speed it was going. The bike on the back was not an ebike.
where the Larig Ghru trail pops out onto the main track
What’s even more shocking is that you can bike up there at this time of year.
When I were a lad people used to die up there in the winter conditions, let alone be able to ride a bike
Impressive!
Ebikes blamed in the very first response, BRAVO! 🍆
Rule No. 1 passes so many folks by in all areas of life.
That's the kind of trail I can imagine a few folk sessioning, so you could get one group producing an excessive number of skids in one session.
It was either that or BREXIT to blame.
Impressive!
Ebikes blamed in the very first response, BRAVO! 🍆
A wee sidetrack popped us out onto the Glenmore road, and we needed to ride towards Aviemore a bit to regain the Old Logging trail.
Did that involve fording the river? You're lucky water levels are pretty low 😊
If you rearrange the letters in Shamima Begum, and add a k, and get rid of loads, you get ebike.
Makes you think.
No Scotroutes, but I know the trail you mean. A downed power line just south of Loch Morlich had started a forest fire. There must have been 5 appliances there with crews packing up after damping down the hotspots. They had had trouble getting enough water close to the fire, and damming the wee burns didn't produce enough, so they needed quite a run of hose to get enough from further away.
Very dry, and t shirt weather, with the High Fire Risk signs out, in February.
Take care out there folks.
I thought this was going to be a thread about the massive pile of dogshit bags and Costa code cups strewn across the bridge at the bottom of cut gate....
Welcome to the e-bike era
I really don't see the connection ha ha.
I'd be more likely to blame kids after too many roosting Pinkbike shredits and frankly if they're progressing from wheeling about traffic to actually riding their mountain bikes off-road, I'll live with the impolite riding styles, they're learn.
