Still buzzing. On her first trail center ride ever we did the red , had lunch then the blue. I wasn’t sure if we’d be walking everything or not as she has only ridden hertfordshire singletrtack and only for less than a year. Awesome day with friends!

You should think about sending her on a skills course.

Have recently taken my 9 year old daughter out for a few runs round Woburn XC stuff. Trying hard not to force her to come as I don’t want to out her off, but it would be great if she got into it! Glad to hear you had a good day – feeling a bit jealous.

Good stuff. Glentress is such a great facility in that folk of hugely varying skills level can have great fun on it. I say a kid around 5 loving berm baby berm ( even if his dad had to push him back to the top)

Glad you had fun. We did 3 of the seven Staines last Summer. All good fun.

Cheekily here is a video of niece, daughter and son at Dalbeattie

walking, one fall, and some resonable technique at 3:46…

I think my daughter be will off the bike for a few years as she has lost interest/ is looking for independence/ not wanting to compete with her brother

Luckily son and niece still cycle and climb with me

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIkWAv_f870&list=UUFYYzUgcN8gEi32Ek3Dxzew&index=6&feature=plcp[/video]

I’m still buzzing. She crashed before caddon bank so got spooked and walked down a few bits. The guys who barged past were kin ****.

Awesome to hear how much she enjoyed it, cant wait to get my kids riding too. What did she enjoy most?

She absolutely loved gt blue. She rode loads of inners but got spooked when she crashed on plora craig. The blue at gt was her fave ride ever she said. :5

GT Blue is great fast flowing tail with a few dropoffs with opt outs, really enjoyable, good to gain confidence and try a few drops. 😀

Always do a loop or two of Berm Baby Berm when doing the red. It rocks up there.

Hey Jedi, saw you a few times up there, but didn’t get a chance to come and say hello.

I was on my very very orange covert, so you might have spotted me as it blinded you 🙂

Brilliant weekend up in sunny scotlandshire – now back at work in drizzly cheltenham 🙁

Dave

i saw a couple of orange coverts 🙂

IMG-20120603-00474 by ukbikeskills, on Flickr

Maybe its just me, but surely the words orange and covert are mutually exclusive of each other 😉

i saw a couple of orange coverts

I didn’t see any others… it might have been that you saw me lots of times 😉 can’t be that many people out there with bad enough taste to have orange bars, orange pedals and orange chainring bolts on an orange frame

Dave

Did you get Tango’d??

pmsl 🙂

Absolutely love Glentress, went there for the first time five years ago for our honeymoon, and we’ve been back every year since for our anniversary (next month, can’t wait! :D).

The blue’s fantastic – I love the red too, but there was that one year when I fell off the side of Pennel’s Vennel…

I should probably do a skills course! 😛

So, what happened to the blokes that barged past? 😉

should have been doing the GT7 on Saturday, we went UP pennels vennel! Now that was interesting.

Try a search of the forum.. knowing this place they’ve probably started a thread bemoaning the inconvenience of meeting slower riders on public trails.. 😉

Lol@frogstomp

Looka a cool Pic Jedi, typically scottish sky in the back ground and sunshine and smiles in the fore ground.

Hope to get down to glentress with my girlfriend later in the year, hopefully she will end up having as much fun as your daughter.

rusty mac, she loved it. we’re planning more day trips. even her crash hasn’t dented her smile.

glad she liked it jedi .it will surely give her the confidence for future rides.

a group of us did inners at the weekend & was seriously impressed at the condition of the trails .

we camped just next to glentress & played around a bit but for the lure of riding inners a 2nd day was too much to contain so we gave glentress a miss this time.

Awesome stuff…I reckon I need to find a lady who mountainbikes…(or infact any lady for that matter…) Was up at GT at the weekend as well, love it.

Maybe in future you could pay for your scottish excursions by arranging a few skill courses whilst up here 😉

The blue at gt was her fave ride ever she said.

Same here, we were up at Glentress this weekend too.

My other half fell completely in Love with the lower blue loop
(up from the Peel Cafe to Buzzards nest, then up to top of berm baby berm, carry on past to next blue section, then fly down there to Berm baby berm, through the car park and all the way to the bottom again.)

She loved it, and we stayed till about 8.30pm doing it over and over on Sunday.

Brilliant weekend.

Glad you enjoyed it, we were up there from Monday to yesterday with the girls. had a great time