[Closed] Glentress is fun isn't it? VIDEO content

Yeah- but what about that cafe??? 🙄

😆

ahhhhh nice. helmet mounted cam next time maybe....felt a bit sick trying to keep up with that but 10/10 for fun. Can't wait to head up there in a few weeks.

What's the soundtrack?

herbaliser - shattered soul

Shakey cam was an experiment. It needs work, but for a kodak zx3 hastily zip tied to a back pack strap at the top of Spooky Wood it's kind of ok. You should see my earlier 'work' for crap action shots....

Apologies...I didn't mean to be harsh on the vid quality, from what I have seen helmet mounted stuff seems to work the best as the head/neck is an awesome steady cam!

yeah you're right. This was "tom slowrider cam" - he's not as smooth as he thinks

;o)

To be totally honest I much prefer totally solid base stuff - proper shots from trail sides. Still, the kidz these days will insist on playing....

Nice.

Good tune.

Yeah you need to sort that wobbly business out felt like I was going to crash. Good riding

Tom did crash.

:o)

Meh, what grade trail is that? Only been to Inners. Trails are to smooth these days. Me want's lots of rock gardens, roots, off camber roots, big **** off braking bumps etc etc. Gravel is like riding tarmac.

The super smooth stuff is blue, mostly, or newly refurbed red waiting to break back in.

Nice, despite apparently being too commercial for some on STW I always have a great laugh up there, can't wait to go back.

Meh, what grade trail is that? Only been to Inners. Trails are to smooth these days. Me want's lots of rock gardens, roots, off camber roots, big **** off braking bumps etc etc. Gravel is like riding tarmac.

Wow, you must be so AWESOME. :swoon:

Yeah the super smooth stuff was the blue. Towards the bottom of the red coming back to the cafe it got very off camber rooty, and there were some cheeky rock gardens dotted about.

We just rode the smooth stuff faster to make it challenging. And it was a nice change from the very rocky Peak District

😀

Me want's lots of rock gardens, roots, off camber roots, big **** off braking bumps etc etc

"an ting"

bwaarp we already have all of that locally to us.

and have been out riding it tonight. Though I took a dab on Cavedale.

I'm just off up there this summer instead of the Alps as I'm skint, so there's some techier stuff there? If so I'll add it to my plan.

I wanted to do the Kielder red/black run, Inners, Glentress and Fort Bill all in one go.

I've only been to Kielder once but there was nothing about it I could recommend.

The black run looked ok. Gahhh, do not tempt me to splurge my money on an Alps trip!

Bwaarp - loads of techy stuff. Lots of the red had lovely tech sections, and there's black runs too.

Seriously though, don't discount the blue - Berm Baby Berm is fantastic, grin inducing stuff.

No I do love it, but I suddenly got a depressing feeling that was all it was going to be! 😥

bwaarp - if you want techy stuff you're probably best off not going to trail centres in general (with a few exceptions). Fort William DH is ace though (the red and the WC track).

Nice, chilled vid.

Haven't been there since Dec 2003. Had a cracking time. Must go back soon.

Was there a couple of weeks back with the family. Ace work!

Yeah, we're stopping off in the peaks and lakes on the way as well, for natural stuff. Culminating in a last couple of days at Fort Bill.

I just want to go on a biking binge, so the trail centres are great for getting short, sharp fun.

bwaarp. If you have never been to glentress you won't be disappointed. Its a fantastic facility with a bit of everything for everybody

druidh - Member

I've only been to Kielder once but there was nothing about it I could recommend.

Did you do the Deadwater trails? I really like those... Good climbs, mostly good descents. Black graded climb in fact! It does have that disasterously awful descent off the hilltop though, so we don't do that, we just do laps of the rest of the red and black.

Bwaarp...if you're coming this way and you're looking for techy stuff give the black run at Laggan a go.

I seem to remember the black descent at Kielder being really good fun when I did the Gravity Enduro there. Couple of other good bits too but the radio mast descent is just bizarre.

I really like Laggan overall but wasn't that into the black TBH - maybe if I did it again I might go a bit faster but I just found it not that flowy - steep ups as well as downs in quick succession meant lots of track stands and fiddling around.

Dunno if I was just in DH mode after a day at Fort William but I wanted it to be more downhill. 🙂

roadie_in_denial - Member

Bwaarp...if you're coming this way and you're looking for techy stuff give the black run at Laggan a go.

seconded

Qualit-[i]tay[/i] skiprat had me 😆 at 2.03 😆

rad skillz

Bwaarp - loads of techy stuff. Lots of the red had lovely tech section

Trails are to smooth these days.

Me want's lots of rock gardens, roots, off camber roots, big **** off braking bumps etc etc. Gravel is like riding tarmac.

gw - hardtail. What's your point caller? edit: just realised you weren't asking me.

Rock steps are technical are they not?

No.

neither is the kerb on the way to your local shop

Jesus, sweet child of Nazareth.

I just wrote an excellent, reasoned and thought inspiring response to this, but my browser crashed and I lost it.

The appropriate response to it would have been be "hmm, fair enough" though.

peadoblasphemia? 😯

a new low for hora?

hora appears in the video doing an impression of a moose. Can you find him?

No. and I'm certainly not watching that pile of shite again 😉

screw you bitch.

go and rad gnarr some pebbles to the power of sick

😉

Yes I hid behind the berm pretending to be some sort of Stag. I doubt anyone like GW railing n 'rippin round that berm would have noticed 😆

berm? that wasn't a berm, it was a molehill

I do love GT.

That video proves why. Its just such a good laugh to ride round it with your mates

:oD

cheers rich - that's what i thought

Yes, I ride a mincetank. An NP Mega, I am okay with this as I don't feel like riding Fort William or Morzine on a Chameleon again 😉

I took my 13 year old step-son and his mates to Glentress for his birthday last weekend. Starting from the top, every time we finished a section I would wait with a not-so-small amount of anxiety until they all appeared round the last corner. 1,2,3,4,5 - ok. phew. 🙂

Everyone knows that riding a hardtail round GT is for mincers. Fully rigid is the only true way. Added points for drop bars and/or 4" tyres.

steeveydoesit I think we saw you? quite a big bunch of kids? One bailed and went down the fireroad with an adult not far behind I think.

I've only been to Kielder once but there was nothing about it I could recommend.

+1, it's OK, but the black was more like "blue, with a big hill to climb first and a couple of steps".

Pook - Did you get a government grant for taking the special needs kid out?

Yep it's good.

Did the Blue with the Mrs recently. Their grading is slightly different from england it seems... a lot of fun. Found some sneaky, steep unofficial trails too which were awesome!

Quite like repeating that final descent from Buzzards nest too, hitting the black bits at speed feels cool.

If that was you Steveydoesit - we were at the top of that climb when you were testing the kids on Test Match Special.

Binners - I've put the application in....

Nice video - i thought you were running with the camera at one point!

+ 1 - Me and the mates love Glentress - What's not to love, such a good variety, if you want a long haul, do the black, a 4 - 5 hour red, do it a couple of times and session the top 3 sections a few times - Excellent!

Plus the jump park and Berm Baby Berm - Loads of fun!

Im going on Saturday - Looking forward to the mub bath 🙂

Pook - Could have been us, one did bail after super G I think. I forgot how tricky some bits got until we dropped in 🙂

cheers Alan - not me on the camera riding, though I am in those bits.

got to go back soon.

Steeve he had a wierd eval kaneval style helmet/fullfacer on and as he passed us he had a right mood on

A friend of mine rode round GT last week singlespeed rigid with Mary bars! Rode from Edinburgh in the rain then back via The Meldons minus one spoke and a wobbly wheel - all in the rain 😀

Can you guess who?

We're loving this video in Brazil Pook - keep up the good work.

What about Kirroughtree as a tech trail centre - with some seriously steep uphill rock features?

Aaargh, the Judgement slab! Harder than fort william dh 😉

Some attempts!

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Simon you are read my mind

Glentress is great but in my opinion isn't anywhere near as good as Innerleithen. Would like to try and memorize this route from the King and queen enduro though http://www.trailscotland.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=3468&p=36674&hilit=king+and#p36505

we were going to do inners but it was rammed with the ixs downhill being on

hora - nah, that wasn't any of my lot. They were all on hire bikes with the cheap xc lids on. They loved Magic Mushroom almost as much as I did. That's mushroom. singular 😀