Some nice singletrack in them there woods.

King of Sweden

brakehoseovision 😀

Looks fast n flowy – nice.

Must ask Sheldon for a show me round soon

cheers to the knights of niche for the guided tour today, was rather spiffing!

Nice bit of footage!

erm……… looks dull as **** hope you find some elevation for essc!

Is that Dowies?

Rich no need for you to worry about what the course at SSEC will be like as you've not paid for you entry so won't be riding. 😉

agent.

Yes it's Dowies. Well the top half anyway. The middle section is being harvested.

another good vid. but you might want to trim your nostril hair a bit

Nice little vid. 😀

WOW its true the camera does add 10 pounds !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would be really helpful is someone could pinpoint on Multimap (on the OS map option) where Dowies actually starts?
Cheers if you can.

Would be really helpful is someone could pinpoint on Multimap (on the OS map option) where Dowies actually starts?

No way, keep the rif raf out.. 😆

^ What Graham H sed 😉

^ What Stu said, why should you be concerned what the course is like Rich 😉

Bonesetter anytime mate
Taz, 'twas a pleasure!

SORT OUT THE BRAKE CABLES!

ahem

And find some hills, I have to agree with postie, sorry!

I've learned that helmet/bar cams are brilliant for making your best bits of riding look suitably boring and flat and not worth riding, even when they are! My bar-mounted fast sweepy bit of treework with a wipeout… 😆

Why would you want to video youself walking up a hill ? 🙄

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SORT OUT THE BRAKE CABLES!

I think you'll find they're brake hoses 🙄 and fine where they are thanks.

I'd have gone faster but I wanted to follow the KoS if that's alright with you? 😉

Edit.

Just seen your link. I'm lost for words.

that's so cool! I want to go riding now.

sss – I didn't know you were capable of identifying the difference between cables and hoses from a 640×480 wobbly vid – how very impressive of you! 😉 And by sort I meant move them out of the frame as it's distracting!

I'd have gone faster but I wanted to follow the KoS if that's alright with you?

If you wish.

Just seen your link. I'm lost for words.

Indeed, slow, boring.

I didn't know you were capable of identifying the difference between cables and hoses from a 640×480 wobbly vid – how very impressive of you!

If you look close you can even see Shimano printed on the hose.

by sort I meant move them out of the frame as it's distracting!

Don't watch the vid and you won't get distracted then…

Oh and almost forgot one of these. 😉

For what it's worth I put the video up for two reasons.
1. It has a Swedish national champion on it. 😯
2. Loads of folks ask about Dowies trail so they might find it interseting.

The start of Dowies 1
In Ellwood, just keep going straight on past the football field – straight at the cross roads and onto a forest lane to the left hand side of a cottage. Turn right behind the cottage onto the start of the trail it splits to the left into a small ditch / corner. This is Dowies 1.

[*]http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=359522&Y=208159&A=Y&Z=115[/*]

You can't please all the people can you
,if any ?

Suprised that your pipework offends personally I'm
Quite a fan of your pipework ;-)))

Ps SSS can ride faster but why hurry ?

1. It has a Swedish national champion on it.

I didn't know being a nichemonger/attentionwhore was a national sport in Sweden 🙂

Yeah ever heard of a 70's pop combo they are world leaders 😀

Looks rather Thetford-like to me, which is no bad thing.

Who needs hills when you've got pedals?

Roll on SSEC10 (preferably with warmer weather)

The start of Dowies 1
In Ellwood, just keep going straight on past the football field – straight at the cross roads and onto a forest lane to the left hand side of a cottage. Turn right behind the cottage onto the start of the trail it splits to the left into a small ditch / corner. This is Dowies 1.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=359522&Y=208159&A=Y&Z=115

incorrect, that is not the start of the trail.

Look at the tola finding a connection at the top of a mountain 😀

I used to grumble when I first started riding in and around the peaks, often yearning for something more 'flowy' which you appear to have.

Nice little vid, looks nice and quick, very tranquil and quite a beautiful place to be.

I still prefer riding up here though 😉

Sat on his wet back side, unable to stand up, slightly off piste and four meters away from the top of the pink run lift is where the best signal is received I beleive.

You think he's even got that far then Swede?

My money says he's sat in a mountaintop cafe stuffing his wok with cake.

incorrect, that is not the start of the trail

OOhhh, I like a disagreement 😀 … it is the start of Dowies but you put in a bonus bit before the original starting point so you are indeed correct saying that it isn't the start of the 'trail' 😉 😉

I notice that a link has been made between the top of what we call The Skull Trail [the one in the video above which Dowie laid out as an alternative to his original trail] and the Bigfoot Trail [laid out by Bigfoot MTB club] which exits onto the track opposite the start of Dowies 2.

Hopefully all will not be lost in the felling going on at the moment but I'm sure Dowie as an ex Forestry Contractor may be keeping an eye on things…

He tells me he has been boarding this morning. I assumed he ment snow boarding but he probably ment boarding the special buss that collects lost gingers that find them selves stranded and dribbling on the mountain.

Or hanging about outside Boarding Schools…

Oh and the word bus out there is spelt "buss" That's not a typo 😉

Yes your are correct – not the trail start as in the video – that is about here.

As psling says Dowies does start about here.
About 38 seconds into your video you reach the start of the original Dowies.

Bit of Dowies 1 video found here: http://www.vholdr.com/node/25900

Is that time lapse footage 😀

Sat on my ass indeed, **** skiers!!!

Psling you are indeed correct!
Met a bloke called Joe whilst out on the Dungeons and Dragons trail, he says hi!! He also showed us the bottom of another nice looking decent that pops out just up the fireroad from where JM broke some ribs!

Looks all so familiar. Just without the skier excuse last time eh mate.

Nah thats me in the pic not Pedro!!