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Yeah, anyone who thinks anywhere is easy isn't riding it fast enough.
I'm going to give up mountain biking because its too much effort. Im just going to ride down the road outside really fast instead, I imagine it will be just as hard, and therefore just as much fun
Landegla has a very good safe feel to it. great facilities and perfect to try out riding for a newbie.
Penmachno is middle of nowhere, flowing trails, not really techy at all, but a whole lot more 'out-there' and is more variable than most trail centres. They both are great, but Penmachno has the edge for me. (still too much fireroad at both tho...) why can't it all be singletrack? 🙂
Just annoys me sometimes, the lads and lasses up there work hard and people slate it for being something its never claimed to be!
What has it claimed to be?
What would 'black route' suggest to someone who has ridden and skied black routes?
Not arguing with you, just interested.
Not 7stanes, GT or Inners.
Trails were graded after an imba visit, hence why they changed the green to blue. AFAIK that's why they got that grading and possibly they put black runs at that level because of the huge range of users to the complex, to cover themselves.
Was the IMBA visit before or after the black run was 'adjusted'?
[i]samuri - Really? Spend all your time at warp factor on fireroads do you?[/i]
Not always but then I don't complain about trail centres not being technical enough, I understand what I'm getting with them. They have liabilities and land ownership issues to deal with. Not to mention people bitching about them being too technical. I was at Llandegla today as well. I had a great time.
[i]What would 'black route' suggest to someone who has ridden and skied black routes?[/i]
That mountain bike route classifications in the Uk bear no resemblance to ski route classifications in places with huge mountains?
I was at Llandegla today as well. I had a great time.
I'm sure you did.
If we all liked the same thing it'd be a pretty boring world.
BTW, are the black routes at GT etc also IMBA graded?
Went to Llandegla today too!
I enjoy the place, it was my first trail centre. It aint really tough went round the black route first time out on me old Carerra (hadnt been into biking long), you can make it tougher though by not breaking into the berms leaving ****in massive grooves in the trail! 👿
Got the shock of my life today though, I came round a corner to see a hire bike on its side and a fella lying in the verge on his back not moving, after screetching to a halt trying to get my brain into first aid mode it transpired he was tired and taking a breather. Honestly it looked like a full blown accident to me! Well you do get allsorts there!
I agree with S&J to some extent, went to llandegla last autumn and was slightly disappointed after reading so much about it and possibly as we'd rode cyb the previous day. found the climb out to the top of the hill long and dull, other trail centres seem to be able to break the climbs up a bit better. enjoyed the downs but don't think i was hitting them hard enough to get much air time and looking at the youtube videos it does look a lot more challenging at higher speeds.
I think the riding is generally good but somethings are more suited to certain riders, don't think an armoured up bloke on his scott ransom will get much out of the xc course at sherwood pines - but plenty of other riders love it.
The black route is black because it is harder than the red, it's just a relative scale for the trails at that particular location. Given that there is a thread every couple of weeks about how un-technical llandegla is it's amazing anyone goes there expecting it to be something it isn't...
[i]Tillhill are a private company and are MUCH more twitchy about liability than the FC so no there won't be 20ft gap jumps there. [/i]
Goes back to my question on the lad suing Tillhill for his self-idiot-fall in the carpark. I bet there are a few idiots who have sued Llandegla for their own falls already.