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1. BearBack - Member 

   2 big trail days, ~84km and 2000m vertical according to my strava pipiom.
   Plus a day in the park with one of the boys.
   I really enjoyed getting back into old school Whistler trail riding with you!
   Its interesting recently how Whistler riders preferences have evolved more towards single 'enduro stages' rather than being a trail journey.
   Squamish is also superb for being able to put together a multi trail adventure

   Posted 1 day ago #
2. pipiom - Member 

   I’ve got “train wreck” and all of the Frank Zappa stuff permanently embedded on my frontal lobes......how’s it hanging with you guys?

   Oh, then there was “the park”

   “Hi Chi Minh”was a blast

   Posted 1 day ago #
3. whatnobeer - Member 

   , Valley Trails are ace work up to Kill Me Thrill Me , Comfortably Numb and A River Runs Through It .

   If you like slow tech with no flow. I guess they're marmite trails. I'll ride each once a summer to remind myself that there's much more fun to be on other trails

   Posted 1 day ago #
4. FunkyDunc - Member 

   What type of riding has Jnr FD ridden at home?

   The only trail centre type riding is Llandegla red. He’s done a fair bit of riding on open moorland, but not used to big descents so suffered most at Llandegla from dragging the brakes/arm pump. All stuff that can be improved on before we go.

   Posted 21 hours ago #
5. mikewsmith - Member 

   
   www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wLLWHyxWbk
   Out of the park
   www.vimeo.com/230551885
   In the park

   Lots of riding at all grades but as others have said you might have a tough time if you are nervous about some stuff

   Posted 21 hours ago #

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6. singletrackmind - Member 

   You mean the drop at the start of BNB ? the bombhole right at the start just after the road?
   Seriously ?
   If you dont like riding that, then maybe an early season day with Jedi would be money well spent.
   It took me years to get over my horror-show day with him, and get my head around the fact I will not end up on a spinal board everytime my wheels are more than 1ft off the ground.
   Double.- nah , nearly but not quite
   Tables.- Yep , in daylight , dry ground, nice sight lines no problemo.
   Steep and loose.- I do Ok , but put in a high speed drop and I chicken out

   If you are looking at dropping £2k for a big holiday and want to get the most out of it thats what I would do.

   I know there are miles of tracks that you can ride quickly 'wheels down' , but if you have the confidence / ability to leave the ground should you mess up and find yourself on a lip which pops you up and you panic ....

   Jusy dont go expecting an instant gnarr fix, its a progressive teaching technique. Dont go with a hangover , or carry everything you would need for the sdw in your camalbak

   Posted 19 hours ago #
7. yacoby - Member 

   As someone who was a very wheels on the ground rider when I went in 2015:
   - A line is horrible if you try and squash everything. it just doesn't work as the jumps are just too big.
   - Crank it up was Ok squashing/casing things

   These are the "harder" bits of blue tech trails that I recall seeing people stopped at last year:
   https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/12360450/
   https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/12848801/ (IIRC this is an optional feature - but still marked as blue)

   Quite a few of the blue tech trails have features that will get you airborn if you hit them at any speed.

   This is a blue flow trail (has berms and jump after jump of things this size):
   https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/5712069/

   If you think you would be reasonable at either the blue flow or the blue tech, then you would be fine as there is loads to ride. If you don't think you would be comfortable on either the blue flow or the blue tech then maybe don't make a holiday just to ride the bike park - all the greens (bar one) are terrible.

   OTOH, if there is a way to get faster, it is to ride loops of the same trail in a bike park.

   Posted 10 hours ago #
8. zippykona - Member 

   Maybe what I was told was BKB isn't!

   Posted 9 hours ago #
9. singletrackmind - Member 

   bombhole is about 2o seconds in.
   
   www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUKkGjEubxk

   Ridden smoothly , but not quickly

   Posted 6 hours ago #
10. zippykona - Member 

    Nope that’s not it.
    We hooked up with a local and rode a trail a lot shorter than that and he said it was Barry’s.
    Obviously not.

    Posted 3 hours ago #

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