I went yesterday before my track session. Some good bits, some terrible bits. Three loops in one hour so very compact. Once you’re used to the surface it can be quite fast in places.
Good bits – use of the height for flowy sections on the red, one black rock section down on the last bit, use of paving slabs for berms.
Bad bits – entrances to black sections are the hardest bits mostly uphill rocky switchbacks making dabbing easy and then clipping back in hard for ‘the feature’; pointless lumps on the straight red and blue sections just disrupt rhythm and slow you down; trail split signs too late to see easily; it’s looking overgrown already!
I can totally see the point of the black entrances and the slowing lumps but they do take the fun out of it.
Swinley trails are much more fun and beginner friendly and will certainly encourage more riders.