Furryboots was that taken?
Between the picnic bench on super g and the bottom of the blue that leads on from spooky.
Trying to suss out where this is, looks like its in wee bit that looks quarried out, if you crossed over the fire road it would take you in around Broon troot kinna area, whcih would make sense :/
No, imagine you'd just come down Spooky, took a left and down the muddy chute to the fire road. This is up that fire road to the left so I imagine it starts between the chute and the blue or somewhere off the blue.
About the 20km mark
http://www.strava.com/activities/179586262/segments/4199629878
No, imagine you'd just come down Spooky, took a left and down the muddy chute to the fire road. This is up that fire road to the left so I imagine it starts between the chute and the blue or somewhere off the blue.
Yeh thats where Im thinking 🙂
Looking at the map, it is pretty close to Broon Troot. In my mind that's miles away!
My first enduro and I am looking forward to it , the wife and mini moonsaballoon are coming down to cheer me on and were making a weekend of it . It's also been a great excuse to treat the bike to a few new fancy bits
Event video on the way soon...
nice tune on the Coogan vid!
I know where that bit is...
so the course is open for practice on the saturday - how easy are the sections to repeat? can you generally spin back up a fire road to the top, dont think we'll be doing the whole loop twice but it'd be good to session some bits.
Without knowing the exact route, it'll still be easy to loop sections given the layout of the forest.
so the course is open for practice on the saturday - how easy are the sections to repeat?
Difficult to say, given the course has not been announced yet, unless I've completely missed it?!
Whats the chances the start of the stage will be spooky wood then a detour off on to this new stage then across into broon troot?
Seems reasonable, they've done the troot before but as a standalone very short stage, and spooky as part of a big redroute stage
I'm just hoping that it's not just a new exit from Secret & Lies
Wouldn't expect so- S&L is officially closed because of issues further up and I've not heard it mentioned for rework/reopening. (the woodwork's way past end-of-life, it's bollocksed. But I think everyone secretly admits that's why it's so good)
That pic is the new exit from Betty Blue, just as the last left that takes you to the exit along the fence. So some sort of Spooky\BB section, then that leads nicely into Brown Trout.
We did Zorro and Five Year Plan last night. Very wet and muddy. Can't see either of them in the KOTH. new Ho-Chi-Min, ZoB and the Fort for sure I reckon.
Trail closures for the weekend http://www.7stanesmountainbiking.com/Glentress---Innerleithen
about 3 turns from the end of spooky there's a trail that leads you down to the start of betty blue, there's even an option to take you a little bit further into betty blue, that could lead you into the new exit above and into broon trout. from there it's pretty easy transition over to double x and the bitch from the EWS course.
I don't know but just guessing.
From the pond you could follow the ews route back to ho chi min.
There's gonna be 'long hard willies'?? I may need to take my shades 😯 😆
I usually get a walnut whip during these events
Diane - MemberThere's gonna be 'long hard willies'??
I'm sorry to say, Glasgowdan rode all the willies and says they were actually not very hard at all.
Amazing!
Trail closures for the weekend http://www.7stanesmountainbiking.com/Glentress---Innerleithen
So going by this i think
Stage 1: Spooky Wood -> Betty Blue with new exit -> Broon troot
Stage 2: EWS stage 3
Stage 3: EWS stage 4
Then over to cademuir for last years KOTH last two stages
Latest word from the Organisers...
Hi guys, I thought I'd try here...is anyone going from Edinburgh and has a free space a car and is keen to take one more person+a bike? I'd be happy to share the fuel costs, of course!:)
Not giving much away are they. Couple of Cademuir stages, the Spooky/Betty/Trout one, one or maybe two more then finish with HCM -> Fort.
Would love them to chuck Zorro in!
Biggest question for me is four or five stages and what's the time limit likely to be, 4hrs or 5hrs?
I didn't see any Cademuir in that vid unless that was the bit at the beginning?
From about 1:30 onwards is Cademuir
I wonder if we'll start off with the Cademuir stages this year then do GT?
That would be my guess. The big G-out of the bottom of JennyG and the lead in to it makes a good spectator zone for the finish.
Noted that there are no closures of the Black at GT for next weekend.
Which to me means the first three EWS stages from the second day of the EWS are not being used unless we're only doing part-bits of them (if that's possible without having piles of riders stacking up around the Black.
Doesn't look like the EWS trails are being used other than S4. Must definitely include spooky wood and betty blue. Not much else closed so might be a fair bit of off piste stuff inc S4 😀
No Zorro then, boooo! 😉
Really hoping there is some sort of extra off piste stuff to make up three stages on the GT side but looking increasingly like just the four stages now?
As long as they have the same sort of awesome Cademuir stages I am not fussed about the GT side. I tend to do far better (ranking wise) on the Cademuir stuff as well. I can't ride spooky wood to save my life.
ho chi mink looks odd without the trees
So does brown trout, which is officially ruined!
Has broon troot been felled? Hadn't heard about that incoming
Went passed the end of Broon Troot on Wednesday and plenty trees there, must have felled it all pretty quick if it has been! Last time I did Broon Troot it wasn't as good as it used to be as there have so many new lines taking the easy route round trees, just wasn't the same. Shame.
Broon troot hasnt changed in the slightest, went down there today,there has bee some "racing" lines been cut but think they may be blocked off for next week
Sorry just meant there's a few trees taken out since last time I was there a year or so ago. Plus the short cuts and the fact it's been so heavily ridden have rather spoiled it in my view. 🙁
Any details on event timing yet? Was expecting an email with a few details by now, trying to sort out ditching the kids!
Broon troot was pretty today different since I last rode it a few months ago, the woodwork has been removed, there are some new strava/endooro lines, the left hand switchback with the logs has been improved and I think there has been some filling in, certainly it runs more fast and flowy, I quite like it. People need to use the original line near the top with the right hand 90 degree turn with the big root though, its fast disappearing.
