Did a small ride round some woods near Tintern this afternoon, somewhere I haven’t been for a very long time. Nearly killed myself though as I’d found a nice mellow run that I decided to do again and somehow I managed to end up on a different trail. I was expecting to pop out via this bit:
What I ended up doing was arriving with speed at the top of this bit, realizing I was going to die and jumped off the bike and somehow managed to grab onto a few roots and not fall down like the bike did:
Got away with just the brake levers and dropper remote rotating round the bars! To ride down you have to essentially do a 45° bunnyhop turn down into it, if you don’t know it’s there you’re flying off a big drop! I had to walk a good 100m to the right to find a way down to rescue the bike!
The ride did confirm that my fitness is shocking though, 4 miles and I was done.