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Cannock.
.All the dam puddles after the rain!
.The lack of escalator on the incline to upper cliff, hate that climb.
Yours? 😉
Getting back to the car park to find the bike wash isn't working.
All.
1-People.
2-Bikes.
3-People riding bikes.
Glentress. Presuming you're asking what I find most annoying, rather some generally agreed thing, I'd say straightlines destroying many of the fun wiggly bits.
Edit: Sorry, I'm feeling slow this evening, didn't realise this was entirely just to mock that other thread.
European dads with 10 year old daughter's in the middle of the trail wearing jeans and hoodies and asking for directions.
😀
Personally its people hanging around at the start of trails,with the sole intention of giving you headstart then (trying to) catch you up.
On one occasion the guy was in the queue behind me at the bikewash,and explained how he would have caught me if it wasn't for him dropping a chain,and another time heard riders discuss how long to give me before they "chase me down"
The fact I dont have one?
Cwmcarn - the only fly in the ointment is the fact the pay and display doesn’t take cards. Really that’s it, Bike wash, toilets, cafe (not that I ever go in) great trial, there’s even an uplift.
Afan - only the fact it’s so spread out, again coins only.
Brechfa - love the place, but causes me much stress, I usually need a poo just before we start, the portable toilets are well below my minimum standard for use, there’s a toilet opposite the pub but it’s not much better, I have to stop at the services at the end of the M4 and sometime I’m not ready.
It’s too far away so I don’t go.
Kenniboy apparently.
Nothing, it's really very good.
Glentress- bloody shortcuts and "clever lines". And the car park's too small
windhill - carpark is too far away and remote from the trail with high risk of vehicle breakin. 🙁
Gisburn - The blocky, short descent after the quarry climb, there's an awkward lump that nearly always grabs my front wheel. It can be bloody freezing when the wind cuts through that car park in winter as well.
Coed Y Brenin - the idiots that think it’s an appropriate place to take their “trail dogs” for a run.
Most annoying?
Cwm Carn. The lack of a feeling of being on the edge of the world since the trees grew up on the start of the last downhill part. It used to be amazing riding that bit with a feeling of an abyss on your left. Apart from that, its ace.
Coed y Brenin. That ramp up beneath the building that I'm always in the wrong gear for because we've just stopped at the shop...
TNF Grizedale. Sadly, quite a lot of it! The "boring climb" v "fun descent" ratio is all wrong.
Afan. The way its spread out, and the fact I'm crap at rocks.
Swinley. The fact everybody disses it even though its far better than not having a Swinley, though I know much is tongue in cheek. The place is great, its just Swinley, it can't be Afan or Glentress its in Bracknell FFS. The cafe is truly rubbish though, the car park is ridiculously busy on a weekend, and the bike wash is only open at times you are unlikely to finish at. And the parking machines are a law unto themselves if paying by card...will it work, won't it work, will I have to walk to another one...then another one...
Coffee in the cafe is utter rubbish.
Trails are either ginger hardpack slippery death cobbles or boggy mess this time of year.
Oh, and dads teaching kids, and all the bastard people who don't know their way around.
Brexiteer Christians on e-Bikes.
There, that should cover it.
Sloooow bastards clogging up the trails who wont move out the way whilst I scream STRAVA at them loudly. They are so inconsiderate!
They've turned off the underfloor heating in the bogs. Ye gads after wintry night ride that was pure bliss, followed by a restorative in the eagle, of course.
Although that said I'd forego any such luxury if people on 3*9 or panaracer tyres were put to death
Antur Stiniog, the cafe,
Most of their meals are burger related, so at lunch time, if you ask for a burger, they put one on. Then you wait ages for it.
Why not put say 10 on then, they're nearly ready when the first person comes in for a burger. When one goes, pop another on eh?
We're there to ride not wait 20 mins for a burger.
Cater, don't cook.
Imagine the cheek of it, teaching your kids to ride at a trail centre. Do people have no idea....
QECP - people walking their dogs on the bike trails. It's not [i]that[/i] annoying, cos they're allowed to, but they have 100s of bloody miles they can walk on where they won't get bikes whizzing past their earoles (or in my case, slowing down and politely excusing myself as I go by).
Then again it's not really a trail centre.
Grizedale... tourists. And too few fun descents (unless you go off piste)
Whinlatter... tourists. And tourist traffic to get there!
Gisburn... braking bumps on Hully Gully. But no tourists.