A few years ago one Easter a bunch of us set off at crack of dawn from Ambleside, had a big day out and go back mid-afternoon, by then of course the place was HEAVING. We threaded our way through town and overheard a walker say in amazement “Look, they’ve been…proper mountain biking!“
mountains defined
sorry you are correct, I was so surprised at someone on this so called mountain bike forum not only riding their bike, but up and around and an actual mountain, that I thought I must had slipped into an alternate universe for a moment where tyres for llandegla\brechfa\glentress\marin trail where just rubber things that kept your bike stuck to the ground as opposed to a fashion item that the singletrack massive had blessed with godlike powers of traction
how has this got anything to do with trail centre or natural?
trail centre isn’t trying to be natural and so it shouldn’t – its a different vibe altogether. There aren’t that many natural trails with berms or doubles on. Personally I like my riding fun and airborne, and those skills when translated to natural trails give them new life.
Then we were off to Westport for a couple of evenings. Tim showed us around some of the historic trails around Denniston on Sunday and then we popped over to Hanmer on Monday and I had a quick blat around the forest before heading home again.
oh, and there is a pretty low quality video of us riding down Kirwans track over here if you wanna have a look Jontawn. After 1000 vertical meters of climbing singletrack… the downhill is well earned!! http://www.vorb.org.nz/kirwans-reward-t94990.html