[Closed] Scotland MTB Videos

Nice videos mate 🙂

Cheers. Had a great time ridding and editing. Weather was spot on too.

how long do you reckon it took to get down the world cup course?

I came off up top and the chain came off then I stopped at the new wooden drop for a look which was closed (Thank F) Also had two stops down at the bottom to take off the goggles and to get a breather. The full thing with all the stops was round 10-15mins so cant really judge how fast a clean run would be. I know with a few more runs and better lines I could do it without stopping if I could stay on all the way down.

Tell you what try to be fresh when you do it. It is so demanding and when you arent used to the track the brakes are one and the arms get sore. I was knackered at the bottom. We had done 5 days ridding before hand though to be fair.

Pros are knocking out 4:30 runs I think it is.

I was on a 150mm Bike so took it easy plus it was my first time up there. Not that I would get anywhere near the pros time. I was just happpy to get down in one piece.

I think it was 4.45 at the last one! Insane, I was just asking as I reckon I'd be well chuffed with 15mins first time, will get my arse up one day and hire out a big bike! 😀

I really want to do the red runbut being and XC jeyboy with hardtail I fear for my life!

i can do red runs comfortably even laggan lower red and have had a decent go at laggan black Think I might die?

i think the red run scares me more than the black, the rocks i don't mind, all the wooden stuff though, don't know what it is i've a mental block about it, the bit at laggan was just unenjoyable for me, i did it a few times to make sure too!

I am not keen on woodwork either. still want to do it tho

Aye of course, still one that needs ticking off!

TJ, you're more than good enough for the red. It's [i]very[/i] dark red- hardest red I've ever ridden anyway- not as hard as Laggan's black but much more constant in its challenge. You're quite often riding straight from feature to feature without the wee recovery spaces, and it gets pretty committed. Also reminds me of Mcmoab in places. The boardwalk needs to be attacked to be any fun, but if you don't fancy that it can all be coasted- just approach it as the nevis equivalent of a fireroad if you prefer.

To give you a benchmark, I did it on my old Soul first time I was up there, and that was a fair bit back- I was much less good then than I am now. OTOH it's high consequence- if you fall, there's some big drops directly onto million ton blocks of granite or big lumps of wood.

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The downhill is very cool on a little bike (never done it on a downhill bike). Forces a different attitude, I think, I ride it with far more attack than I use anywhere else. It's [i]much[/i] harder to do slow and wheels-on-ground than it is with a bit of pace. Mainly it's the relentlessness of it all, there's really not much on it that couldn't pass for a black route but you're firing straight from one feature to the next with little or no recovery time, and usually at speed.

I think the times from the endurance downhill race at the weekend are pretty interesting... The top 3 were ridiculously consistent, all knocking out 12 laps each usually within seconds of each other, between 5.20 and 6 minutes. The winner had 11 laps within 10 seconds of each other.

I'm not fast and was riding with big margins for error so I ended up midtable with 8 8.30 runs- seems pretty typical of the normal riders on normal bikes, as opposed to proper downhillers. I can do faster but not for 6 hours 😉

Full runs work out a lot slower than interrupted runs, incidentally, tiredness plays a huge part in the bottom section. If you're doing uplift runs it makes sense to have a breather.

Ta

I wonder if mrs TJ will let me take the tandem. I could fibto her 🙂

dunno if the gondola will take

Tragically it won't. You could ride up the fireroad to the wallride on the downhill course then try and get it down through the woods and the motorway 😉

I'm quite keen to take my rigid bike up there, I know I could get it down, oh, let's say 95% of the world cup route. But the other 5% might be a little bit painy.

Cool vids. What did you use to film them, the footage is really good quality!

Excellent vids - good quality, well shot and well edited

What's the music soundtrack on the first two?

There was a guy on a hardtail doing the Downhill course. He was on the brakes for a lot of it but still got down. As said above the best way is to carry speed over most of it. The sections I did carry speed I really enjoyed. Again as said above you come off your going to know about it. Think I got away lightly on my off.

The Music in the first one is a friend of mine from Ireland Joe Echo, He is getting very big in the states and wrote a madonna song recently.

Second is a song from last of the mohicans, joe echo and Clandonia tradditional Scottish band (Often seen on the streets of Glasgow, edinburgh etc)

All shot on the GoPro HD Hero, edited on sony vegas.

Thanks for the comments btw!