Dunkeld would probably come close, most of our stuff isn't steep enough. Someone needs to get some canadian mountains shipped over here.
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Nice lesson in hardtail riding.
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lyons - Member
well, ive yet to find a descent on a trail centre that is verging on being a challenge at all. So what U.k trails would you say it does compare to?
LOL - you must be trolling. Anyway, none. None are even remotely similar.
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I sure as hell wish I was 10% as smooth as him
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You know how watching sport always makes it look really easy. That's because they're GOOD. You/we are not good. Or not *that* good anyway. If you *are* that good, feel free to post a video of your own riding for the expert critique of the STW forum.
i wholly disagree with you there. Not denying there good but to suggest we are not good ( or that good) because we dont have a video made, with numerous angles and cameras, and took prob a full day to shoot then that is pathetically stupid. For the record, i feel (and others on here would agree) i am good and would keep up with this person on a bike no probs, and then whoop his ass on a climb, some xc singletrack and over the course of a long days ride!!
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That is a race I would love to see. My money would be on you.
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I'm not 'trollijng' Im just stating it the way i see it. Ive ridden newcastleton (?) glentress, innerliethen, Ae, Afan, Cwm Carn, Coed y brenin, the chlimax trail. I think that it is it. And i still believe they aren't that difficult. Sure, they can be made to be difficult.
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For the guys saying that the trails don't look that hard:-
Trust me, stuff like In Deep and Goats Gully are very much several leagues above the majority of UK trails, natural or trail centre.
He's right. Stuff over there makes Glentress look even tamer than it already is. I've done a lot of what's in that video on 7" travel and was battered/knackered by the end. Kid done good in my eyes.
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Can i join in?
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This would be worth videoing
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There are trails of similar difficulty to the ones in the video in the tweed valley, and the witches trails amongst others. Just because they aren't well known and not signed, doesn't mean that they're not there.
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There are trails of similar difficulty to the ones in the video in the tweed valley, and the witches trails amongst others. Just because they aren't well known and not signed, doesn't mean that they're not there.
secrets and lies is prob more technical, def lot less room for mistakes between trees and only a foot wide trail to ride on. The 4 linking trails from ewok village is also steeper. No comparison overall on the trails with whistler way ahead, just saying if you look then there is trails out there in the UK that have this level of difficulty
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I'm not saying there's not, I've never found them. But I know what I've ridden over there, and I've found nowt over here that is similar. As usual, that video doesn't show just how steep and tricky some of it is.
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Well, if we are willy waving, living in Vancouver I only go to Whistler so I can ride easy trails
etc....Seriously, you can find hard trails anywhere in the world. So **** what?!
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No doubts that trail is probably harder than most of our trails in similar conditions ie dry and dusty, but how often do we get to ride our trails in the dry. I bet that kid as good as he is has never ridden that trail when its wet. Our downhillers seem to be doing quite well of late and they didn't hone their skills in Whistler, it was the likes of the Tweed Valley, Wales and Wharncliffe.
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But I know what I've ridden over there, and I've found nowt over here that is similar.
The prob with over here is ( not including some natural trail riding) that we do have the same level of technicality, we just dont have the same length of trails. Saying that, the STW ride in May this year that we did ended with a 10+ minute descend and the first 3 or 4 minutes was alot more technical than that, only about 3 foot wide with the consequences of failure a straight drop down a (near) vertical cliff side
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stevenmenmuir - Member
No doubts that trail is probably harder than most of our trails in similar conditions ie dry and dusty, but how often do we get to ride our trails in the dry. I bet that kid as good as he is has never ridden that trail when its wet.
Ha haha haa haha haha aha ahah aha aah ahaha haha aha!!!!11!!!!!!!!1!!!11
Oh my God.......
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Just been looking at this
Fort William downhill course looks like a fire road with a few small rocks bedded into it..and not very steep either.
Bet it's not though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTtqL3ez_00&feature=related
And if you're all that good I'm never going on a STW ride.
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Oh my God.......
ditto
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ARlglIUTE now theres a fort bill video.
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Oh my god!!!! What?
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Goan,
But it still makes it look like a flattish fire road with a few rocks embedded in it.
My point was that vids tend to make things look less steep, less rad and much easier.
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I know what you meant, but couldnt resist watching the minaar video again.
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Good innit
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Oh my God, as in there are probably more wet days up on the Garbanzo lift, than dry ones. In Deep is a bitch to ride in the wet, much harder than anything in Wharncliffe and the like.
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It has to be up there as one of the best bits of biking footage anywhere.
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That is a great video of fort william...
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I was just guessing that kid doesn't ride that particular trail much when its wet. I've never been so was assuming it was mostly ridden in dry conditions. Clearly its going to be hard to ride in the wet. My main point really was that if our trails are comparitevly easy why do we have so many talented riders.
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I ridden Goats Gully in the wet on the bike park that was an experience I won't forget in a hurry fun but scary.
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stevenmenmuir - Member
I was just guessing that kid doesn't ride that particular trail much when its wet. I've never been so was assuming it was mostly ridden in dry conditions. Clearly its going to be hard to ride in the wet.
You are working on the basis that Canada is a famously dry country then?
Have you noticed the snow on the hills, the lichen dripping off every tree?
Or is it that because Canada is 'abroad' it must be hot and sunny all the time?
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Because Great Britain is a very competitive nation (look at any sport, war etc.....). Canadians tend to challenge themselves or just hit up some trails with their mates while smoking some blunts. Terrain doesn't really come into it.
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Oh my God, as in there are probably more wet days up on the Garbanzo lift, than dry ones. In Deep is a bitch to ride in the wet, much harder than anything in Wharncliffe and the like.
Blimey! There's some silly hard stuff at wharncliffe (I guess you just have to know where to look :wink:). Although I haven't been down anything harder than the "one with a rock drop between two trees", between "red dot" and the "long one that crosses red river near the top".
[edit] For some reason I thought you were talking about somewhere in the UK. There's obviously harder stuff in Whistler than Wharncliffe :D, although I've heard about some mysterious "old" stuff that no-one rides because it's a bit full-on[/edit]
Dito the comments wrt video's making stuff look easy. The megavalache vids make some of the riding round Alpe d'heuz look like the peak district. It isn't!
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lyons i'd rather listen to the music on the video than that
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Oh, for what its worth, theres a little track near me, that looks alot harder than that. Yeah, it may only last 20 seconds, but then i do live on the edge of the chilterns...
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