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There's four sh1t strava times right there
We used 40 signs,10 rolls of orange bunding, 175 steaks plus used trees & rocks to close trails. Aprox 35 hours spent putting them up & refitting them.
I set the segments on strava to see who was using it, most have removed their rides now tho.
1 dick came down the freshly raked blue family trail on Monday in his full face & dh bike telling workers it's the best trail he's rode lol
Greeble
Thanks - I know where that is...cheers
175 steaks? Rumps, rib eye or sirloin?
Id have thought T-bones would have worked well.
No expense spared at bpw
therag - MemberWe used 40 signs,10 rolls of orange bunding, 175 steaks plus used trees & rocks to close trails. Aprox 35 hours spent putting them up & refitting them.
If you've got a 360 and a good stock of brash, it would only take about an hour at most to build a good pit trap. A little longer if you want to put spikes in the bottom but you could use the glentress variant, fill it with snakes and claim money back from the government for supporting wildlife.
Not long now and just over the hil from us 😀
Same for me, in the other direction tho. lol.
Glad i booked on opening day uplift as well.
Ooooh I missed this thread first time round and I've Been waiting for Gethin to reopen...
Good excuse to plan a bit of a road trip and join it up with some other places.
Looks like I might get my long promised "free weekend" to go riding some time in September now...
So I'm quite tempted to book on the uplift for BPW, maybe chuck in a day at Cwmcarn and/or a detour Via UKBP on the way home make it an all DH weekend and leave my HT at home... Hmmm
or spend two days at bpw. it has nothing on cwmcarn
I'm booked on the uplift on 16th Sept & have a 2 day pass from the wife so wanted to do a second day at the bike park. Annoyingly the lads I'm going with voted for day 2 at Afan, shame as we've all been there before...
Either way I can't wait 😀
or spend two days at bpw. it has nothing on cwmcarn
Did you mean [I]Cwmcarn has nothing on it[/I]? 😀
I'm booked on the uplift on 16th Sept & have a 2 day pass from the wife so wanted to do a second day at the bike park. Annoyingly the lads I'm going with voted for day 2 at Afan, shame as we've all been there before...
Either way I can't wait
TBH I was originally thinking a bit of variety would be worth while by visiting a couple of different venues, as I'm in Reading using the M4 as the main route for such jaunts makes sense, less motorway time and more riding.
Before I was aware BPW was now open I was more than likely just going to have a HT day at Cwmcarn and then a 2nd day at Afan, not very imaginative I know but a nice trip none the less.
Now BPW is an option I sort of fancy sticking more to just DH riding and only taking the big bike, which I've not been getting to ride lately, rather than go to BPW and then Afan and then have to take my HT as well I reckon I'll exclude AFAN it from my plans...
Basically I want to ride my DH bike as much as possib;le for 2 days, if there's enough tto occupy my at BPW then I'll do that but I had thought I'd look at doing BPW and then swinging by somewhere else (possibly something more familiar) on the way back for day 2...
I can imagine Cwmcarn won't be as busy now, which might be a good thing if I'm a bit tired from day 1 at BPW, and then there's UKBP a bit more of a detour south but I've not ridden there for a couple of years, they've apparently done lots of work and I've always liked the place and the people in the past, probably one to keep for another time.
Thinking more broadly what sort of scope would there be for similar regular uplift services and trail developments at some of the other older M4 corridor DH locations?
Mtn Ash? Taff Buggy? Rheola maybe?
If Cwmcarn and Gethin can be seen as demonstrating the viability of uplift services in that particular area due to the good transport links, having the right terrain and pre-existing tracks with scope for further development can you imagine what that would be like, a chuffing huge draw for MTBers...
I've said it before and I'll say it again - A chairlift using the Tower Colliery Winding gear to the top of the Rhigos to just where the Skyline goes past would be an awesome idea.
Downhill tracks all the way back to the Tower Colliery Bike Cafe.
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I spy with my little eye, teh cure for post-alps blues... Wonder how many days' holiday I have left.
Yesterday we opened up 1 red trail & 1 blue trail to give all the volunteers that have helped us a taste of what's to come.
The park is still closed but opens this Saturday.
This was filmed by Aberdare mtb group who helped with the build.
Excellent, the only thing that film is missing is more jersey close ups 😉
Man, they are FAST 🙂
Seriously though, it looks great.
Hope to get down there some time.
Loco, nice jerseys 😉
yep the Jersey are ace 😆
A mate has just started working there. Can't wait to find the time to go 'visit' him.
Bottom half of a red, filmed by buzz, one of the volunteers
Looking forward to riding it tomorrow 8)
Looks awesome, booked in for Monday 9th, looking forward to giving the hardtail a damn good thrashing!
Looking sweet. We're booked in for Mon 26th, cant wait! 😀
Last time I rode at Gethin was in 2007 on a Dragon Downhill race weekend and this happened...
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Still, I won't let that put me off... Booked on for early September and proper excited about getting back there!
😀
Kayak, cheers for that 😛
Looks pretty impressive. What if I were to bring one of those old fashioned 26" hardtails that people used to ride?
They're being confiscated and crushed at the gates 😉 going to sneak mine in round the back 😀
Anyone know how many trails are going to be open on day 1? I got the impression from one of the vids it wasn't going to be all.
I'm sure I read somewhere that it was about 4 or 5 trails? 2 reds, 2 blues+black. I'm hoping more will be open.
We're booked in for 29/09, can't wait! Never used an uplift before so will be something different! Any full face requirements like Antur?
Anyone know exactly what trails are open and when?
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[quote=fathomer]We're booked in for 29/09, can't wait! Never used an uplift before so will be something different! Any full face requirements like Antur?
I'm booked in for next Thursday too.. really looking forward to it! I'll be the one on the wagon-wheeled Salsa.
Don't think there's any requirement for a FF as it's more of an uplift-assisted trail centre than downhill from what I've seen.. but I'm going to chuck mine in anyway (can't hurt!).
anybody know what the climb is like, the trail map suggests it folows the route of the up lift some of the way but maybe not actually on the uplift road?
I am one of those crazy people who doesnt want to sit in a van when I go cycling 🙂
[quote=mduncombe]anybody know what the climb is like, the trail map suggests it folows the route of the up lift some of the way but maybe not actually on the uplift road?
From earlier in the thread:
The climb is close to the road in parts but all off road.
Greeble - I got the impression that was the map of the trails that WILL be open in the future but from the video there was talk of less (2 blue, 2 red and 2 black)...
Says here at 4.43:
I'm assuming this is what's happening
just wait n see sat all of what is on the map will be there
on another note
Very excited about this... trails looks awesome...
If the quality of trails is going to be anywhere near as good as the fantastic video series they've produced then its going to be great.
Just been up there with rode the blue and red trails, WOW! Great work by all the BPW team, Thank you 😀
Good news for some of you. The climb is going to be finished 🙂
*rubs thighs*
22mins ish if you're quick for the climb apparently