…..And so it was that four hardy souls braved the elements (ok, it was a touch chilly) and headed out into the inky darkness of Mugdock. Pistol Pete, Tom “trainer wheels” Downie, Genius McConcept and I headed out via Dougalston on some fairly hard frozen trails. Carefully avoiding the dumpling in a BMW in Virgin Active who appeared keen to reverse into us, we opted for a fast blast round the trails above the reservoir before heading across to the rocky rooty and out to Carbeth. As we headed out towards Craigallion, the snow started to appear on the trails and made for terrific riding – grippy and fast. Pete took us through Carbeth for a play on what’s left of the new trails before taking us down a cracking singletrack descent to the Carbeth Inn that I’d not ridden before. Genius opted for the early bath while the three amigos headed back along the Westie and in via the riverbank and golf club trails. Despite the disadvantage of riding on 26er wheels ( trainer wheels / kiddies bike / delete as appropriate), Tom commented that it was one of the nicest evening rides he’d done in a while with zero faff and a reasonable pace to ensure that no one got cold.
All in, it was a really nice night to be out with the trails in near perfect condition. So where was everyone else?
I was preparing my bank account for the new Spicy I get this morning……
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Managed out early with the cross bike. Great fun and trails were just perfect.
Hi Ross
I spotted your tracks up around the new trails or at least what remains of them. Thought it was you!
Cheers
Sanny
PS Dene
Are you buying a new bike with an old wheel size? Have you not heard that 650b is the new black?
You’re so on the button with yer wheel sizes, here’s me thinking that 29 was all the rage and then 650 pops along. Guess you’ll be fronting one of them in due course….
Will be interesting to see how the 29er copes with Torridon or proper mountain biking : )
Very observant…I took the back route from huts and followed fencing around and down 🙂
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Well there’s an IT fail for me !!!! was a nice wee link to a picture of the Emperor’s New Clothes……
ach well, back to the diddy wheels for me then 🙂
Had a similarly snowy night ride up on fairlie moor on Tuesday night, really grippy snow, and hard ground meaning fast running tyres. I planned to head out tonight on my ownsome, but failed the motivation test. Sad.
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Greg – I could well be up for that on a Tuesday. I thought the trails were a great change from the usual Mugdock based ones, and it’s as handy for the south side riders
Cool, We’ll definitely be out next week, unsure which night, but I’ll let you know Iain.
excellent Greg – poss worth sticking in the calander once date sorted, would be great to get a few more folks down there – looking forward to that fabby section throug the trees again – for those in the club who’ve been around a bit, think ‘the old new trails, but on a gradual descent’
Next Tuesday looks fine with me, I’ll see robin and des. The new ‘fabbie section’ is just over 1km long, not bad for a piece of singletrack I must have been riding past for about 8 or 9 years now. All windfall cleared now too.