http://www.craiguart.co.uk/index.html

gonna hit the 31km black route down @ Kirroughtree 7stanes…. good scenery, good trails and good company…. 🙂

The Trails at Kirroughtree 7stanes were excellent yesterday… the trails down at Ae forest on Saturday were like cake mix….sucked the strength right out of a person…

I am not really that good at MTB, but kirrie is my local haunt.. here are a few vids of some of the trail sections…. http://www.vimeo.com/user449600/videos

also check out the Nutcracker/white witch as they are part of Kirrie..

Sunpeaks resort @ Kamloops http://www.sunpeaksresort.com/summer/bikepark/index.aspx

also Kamloops Bike Ranch http://www.city.kamloops.bc.ca/bikeranch/index.shtml

invermere http://www.canadatrails.ca/mtb/bc/invermere.html

the list is endless for British Columbia….

http://www.squamishmountainbike.com/

http://www.bcpassport.com/vancouver-adventure/outdoor-adventure/north-shore-mountain-biking.aspx

bit of a drive to kamloops http://www.sunpeaksresort.com/summer/bikepark/index.aspx there is also the bike ranch at Kamloops…

davy-g – Member

I have used 2 halves of a spring clip just need to add some form of padding to them to dampen the vibrations..

DUH…. I meant a spring clip clothes peg.. sorry about the typo error…

I have also ditched the helmet mount that I used as all the footage was unusable due to smearing caused by to much cam movement,,,

here are the pics of the stem face mount…please bear in mind that this is still work in progress, I have used 2 halves of a spring clip just need to add some form of padding to them to dampen the vibrations..

the extra zip tie around the cam and the wedge holds everything in place a bit better….and is an added precaution to stop the cam from falling off

Oh…forgot to mention… I am 52 years of age and have been MTB'ing for just over a year now… so yeah, you are never too old to learn 😈

yup, It's the fear that stops us from trying for airtime, took me a week to pluck up the courage to attempt this jump http://www.vimeo.com/9372036 once I had done it I was so stoked on adrenaline that I did it 3 more times after that.. now it is just something I do when I am up in the woods practicing on my bike…

Nick_Christy – Member

dave have u got a pic how you wedge it up?

Nick, will get some pics posted up tomorrow (but I normally look around the trails for a suitable twig… 🙄 ) I am in the process of trying to knock up a suitable wooden wedge with foam rubber attached to it to absorb more vibrations. I am happy enough with the video at the momment as I have managed to cut down a great deal of the smearing caused by camera shake associated with slack mountings.

The silicone sleeve is OK but it won't stop the ingress of dirt or water into the USB socket of the cam, I would say that that is one of the most critical areas one would need to protect…

Be a good idea to fit a Neoguard to protect the camera from ingression of dirt/water etc,etc coming off the tyres, also wrap some cling film around the bottom half of the cam as added protection to the USB plug socket and the card slot before you click it into it's mount….
I personally have mounted the cam to the front of the handlebar stem, i wedge a small twig in between the mounting bracket and the stemface just to tighten things up a tad and then use a zip tie as an extra fitting precaution….

some video http://www.vimeo.com/9362166 Vimeo conversion has compromised the quality a tad…

elaine anne – Member

hey thats a mint bike day-g !!!! is it a Doddy special ? lol he rides those bikes …

Don't think that Doddy rides the UK Ltd Edition of the Meta55 😉 😆

here is my Commencal Meta55 UK Ltd edition…. I have since removed the reflectors and sorted the wayward front brake hose and added a set of Green Lizardskin grips…

anyone know of any decent videos that instruct you how to jump properly?

methinks i am doing it all wrong… bear in mind that I am old fart that started late on in life with MTB'ing here is a short vid of me in action

i can jump a tad better when using my Commencal Meta55

36 pages of user input here: http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12666507 hope this helps..

I use NITRILE gloves which I purchase from my local autoshop @ £4.99 per box of 100, you can buy nitrile gloves on Ebay…

try here http://www.fisheroutdoor.co.uk//find.asp?category=&part_no=&find_category=140&find_description=&find_part_desc=&brand=310

and use the Advanced search option… 😉

http://www.youtubeget.com/ try searching Google for an alternative FREE version..

Jamie, sorry bud, the Police closed the A75 from Stranraer to Newton Stewart this morning I couldn't even get onto the A75 at the Stranraer Academy juction….hope to hook up with you guys sometime soon…weather permitting that is…. 😯

JamieMc – Member
davy-g Aye its the hillbillies. Will aim to head off at 11 so if anyone else is interested meet at the shop for 11. New faces are always welcome!

no worries Jamie… met you an Stephen a few months ago….

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-69afrj scroll down the page to locate Dalbeatie, still has diversions on some of the trails due to harvesting ops…

Hope this helps..

@ Craig, c ya there the morra

@ JamieMc, I am up fer tagging along with you guys if thats OK…. is it the Hillbillies by any chance????

cheers

rideout has been cancelled.. 😥

have just been informed that 95% of the red route at Kirrie was covered in snow or ice on Xmas Eve….I am still heading down the morra, but the guys from England have called off their trip tomorrow…

should be a blast… weather is supposed to be pretty decent also… 8)
just need to get a definite number of riders from the other forums…

LOL..

this one : whinlatter : cracks me up everytime as the poor guy somehow manages to regain his footing only for the bike to whack him back off his feet again..

it's a 10am off from the Kirrie car park…

so it's just you then "ton", I will be attending the rideout with my Son and possibly 3 of my friends, I am still waiting on word from a few others…

cheers, but your Viemo linked video file is PRIVATE…

looks like it's gonna be a 10am start….perhaps a tad later if the weather is bad, as the guys have a 3 hour drive..

davy-g – footage looks good, is that the raw footage or what did you use to compress it, first time I've put up something on vimeo and I used windows movie maker which only seems to save as wmv, how did you save yours as mpeg4?

sorry Bud, it's not my footage, Ben from over @ the Commencal Owners forum did the recording, it was this footage that sold the cam on me.

here is a link to some footage recorded by the more expensive Muvi… the cam was mounted to the seatpost..
TEST FOOTAGE

The quality of the footage in the above link is what sold me on the Veho..

hi John.

am not 100% sure of the exact timings… here is the link to the thread where the rideout is being organised.. http://www.mtbe.co.uk/kirroughtree-sunday-27th-december-t5441.html , will let u know as soon as i do.. 😉

Mark from the "Breakpad" told me yesterday that if enough riders were doing the rideout then he would come down and open the shop, and then perhaps join us on the ride…

be good if we could do a roll call for riders who will be attending… cheers guys.. 😉

although it states on the Ebay page that the resoloution is 30fps 720 x 480 it also states in the specs (below the picture of the cam and accessories) that the res is 640 x 480 (look at "Video Function and Format"

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mini-DV-DVR-Sports-Video-Camera-Spy-cam-SpyCam-MD80-DC_W0QQitemZ300374575396QQihZ020QQcategoryZ11724QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m444QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DCRX%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DSI%252BUA%252BLM%252BLA%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63

so who's going then??? 😆 😉

John, i think the dates are flexible…what dates are u available?

I am heading down this Saturday with my 2 Sons and a few of their friends…

@ Simon, be good to meet up wi you again… u gonna attempt the CHUTE this time…. 8)

DVD Shrink…is FREE,, just Google it.. 😉

would suggest you pay a visit to the 7stanes website http://www.7stanes.gov.uk/
as there will be harvesting operations going on, you will find more info on the site, just click on each of the 7stanes links and look for diversions (here is Dalbeatie to start you off http://www.7stanes.gov.uk/forestry/achs-5rnffw)

I have ridden Kirrie,Mabie,Ae and Dalbeatie, my least fav one is Mabie (way to many hills for these old legs), Kirrie is getting smoother and smoother with all the trail repairs that is going on, the "White Witch" @ Kirrie has been smoothed out so much that i have dubbed it the "Sorcerer's Apprentice"