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Looks like I have day spare a week Sunday as daughter is at dance comp all day and the Mrs has said if I take my bike I can bugger off for the day!.
Won't be too far from 417 so seems like a good opportunity to check it out, but not sure if I'll have my Full Sus built up by then.
Is it doable on a 160 travel HT?
Will just be hitting the blues and reds.
Absolutely fine, in fact you will have a great time. I can only remember one token 'rock garden' which is more like a few foot of crazy paving.
You'll have a blast.
I did it on my Cotic SolarisMax LS with 130mm.
I managed to ride all the trail and had no problems, it was great actually.
Overall pretty smooth, so you can carry plenty of speed.
No problem. I’ve done it on a rigid 29er and a rigid Fatty, and I’m pants.
As others have said you'll be fine...
Another fully ridgid rider here....
thanks all.
Is it worth taking a full face helmet?
Is it worth taking a full face helmet?
Yes, especially as it's a push/lift up.
Yes, if you have a full face I can't think of a reason not to wear it
Thanks again - will dig out the FF, goggles & GoPro.
You’ll love it - but if you do a. Full day it’ll be tiring on your legs.
I did a half day mixture of push up and uplift up (you can buy a card with 5 uplifts for £15 if you don’t want to commit to a full day uplift) just after Christmas and loved it. I’d say he 2 blues are more fun on a hardtail than full suss, but the bit of red which has just had millions of steps chucked on it is better on a full suss (but still fine to ride on a hardtail).
The black isn’t really hard unless it’s wet and muddy - in which it’s best left alone anyway.
If you have full Face then I’d take it, because why wouldn’t you if you aren’t pedalling the bike much.
My bike is a Vitus Sentier with 140mm Pikes and it was so much fun on all the berms and flat out sections.
Apparently they’ve built more jumps in the bottom field section so I need to get back there soon for a look!
First time I was there I was on my old Ragley, it was pretty much perfect. It's basically just a few really good trailcentry descents with a lot going on in them, plus an uplift, rather than this weird thing where bike parks are seen as being "different" or harder. Great fun
Thanks for all the info, but no riding for 4 weeks now due to this:
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417 bike park on a HT – will I die?
Safer than working from home 🙂
lol