Broke my arm, cheer me up :(

At 4:59 I cleared the jump then managed an unintentional front flip-tailwip on a loose patch of gravel!

As for that first section, its insane, like 8″ deep sand, you just drag the brakes and drift through all the turns, it´s insanely steep too!

The middle river bed section is a relentless series of 2ft drops and small gaps on the same bizzare surface.

The last bit is like a trail center on steroids, smooth, and ridiculously quick, but even the chicken lines become 8ft drops if you hit them too fast!

Sorry to hear that fella, get better soon. That trail at the back of Asda in Swindon is fast in the summer 🙂

Where is it? I’d love to be riding that compared with the wet, sh1tty, cold gloop I’m faced with at present.

Get well soon fella I’ve had 5 months off the bike this year with injury too!

Healing vibes

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It´s super quick but the surface takes a good few runs to figure out how to ride it without just locking the brakes and sliding.

Couldn´t do the big step ups off the road as I was already caring a back injury from earlier in the week and the g´forces are phenomenal coming into them!

Rob sends (man)hugs – good one handed post btw.

I saw someone bust his nose a lose a couple of teeth in that very spot!

Ridiculator is freakin ace, but rockadillo rules! I have to get back there sometime…

Is Mike still out of action?

Yup, still buggered back and knee, but we rebuilt his DH bike yesterday so maybe he´s feeling beter.

Dave (an XC guy at heart) is guiding at the moment so can point out all the chicken runs 🙂 appart from a gap halfway down the river bed which I hit completely blind which is what gave me the (misplaced) confidence to hit the bigger ones in the last section!

Nice. The first section before the road looks fantastic but the section after looks a bit beyond my skillset in regards to the huge jumps. Nice vid though and it sounded like hard work.

Michael’s an old fat man – he should get himself a “real” job

KoB it´s not that bad actualy, there are some big jumps, but 90% of it has chicken runs (which would make a british black run look tame), or is built to be rollable. The middle section down the riverbed was far harder IME. And the lack of having to pedal up means you pick up skills far quicker, I was riding drops and jumps i´d bottle in england on the third or fourth run on the first day!

Just ran out of skill eventualy!

At 3.04 you made the ‘devil horns sign’. I stopped there.

Not my vid just borrowed from youtube :p would have been specacular crash footage if it had been!

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