Riding there this afternoon, I've ridden whites and the wall and w2 on many occasion, is it worth trying something new?
Checks in as going in a few weeks.
i thought Blade was pretty good. I'd ridden all the others a fair bit tho' so fancied a change. Very "trail Centre' but not some easy gravel motorway like Llandegla.
It was aiiiight.
Blade is worth riding. Bits are good, bits are 'meh' in my opinion but it does have a whole range of styles of trail. The final traverse/climb to 'the rock' is a bvgger on a hardtail, too rocky to really lay the power down. I find Blade more of a work out for its length than the others.
The wall is my favourite by a long way. Feels like its bedding in to be quite natural in a lot of sections
The final descent of blade is great, along with a couple of descents about 2/3 of the way round.
If I were going again I wouldn't ride the whole trial, I'd just work out how to do the final descent and string that together with some of the whites descents.