Scotland - pads?

The Northern Monkey

el loco pollo wrote:

bigbenj_08 wrote:

Northwind
Is that the red at inners? reaaaaallly looking forward to it! Only got to do Glentress last time

I'm staying in Peebles for 2 weeks as of the 1st of August!! might se you about! :P

Cool beans man, you'll love Inners. May see you in the Traquair Arms or the cool pizza shop on the high street!

Is that the one that sells fish + chips, pizza, deep fried pizza, kebabs, deep fried kebabs, toilet roll, anadin and fags?
If so, that place is the best crazy odd awesome shop ever
I wanna try a deep fried pizza this time

lesz42

how about a "bupa" option? for when it goes a bit pete tong?

ashfanman

Woah, seems I've touched upon a sore subject here.

Thanks for all of your advice - some really sensible comments there.

I just wanted to get some feedback on how technical the trails were as I've never ridden them before. I reckon I'm just going to get some knee pads. I'm sure I could get round fine without them, but £40 doesn't seem like a big price to pay to cover the 'just in case'. We all make mistakes from time to time, after all, and I'd rather spend £40 on some pads that I don't really need than not spend £40 and either have to hold myself back on unfamiliar trails, or come off on day one and ruin the rest of my trip.

I guess it all just boils down to personal choice. But that's what I love about MTBing - there's no 'right' way to do it. Everyone that I've come across is really passionate about what they do and they way that they do it, but most are cool enough to accept that others may have a different approach.

Steve_F

keeko wrote:

I never said they were ALL smooth gravel paths. Most are. GREEN, BLUE RED routes can be done on a racer. Fud.

Is this just trolling/looking for an argument or trying to over emphasise a point?

I've done Glentress, Inners, Ae and Kirroughtree reds and there is no way I'd make it around a single one of these on my racer. A hybrid (as in your later post) may be possible but I don't fancy it lasting for long.

It might be possible to get the racer all the way round the blue at GT but I really wouldn't fancy my chances of not getting off and pushing.

I'd like to see the gravel paths you have round your way if they are comparible to trail centres. Do they have jumps, berms, skinnys, drops etc? Please let me know where to find these gravel paths.

And back to the point, I always wear knee pads, usually elbow pads depending how I'm feeling/where I'm riding. Last time I came off without elbow pads on I landed on my elbows (aimed for that I think as it is usually a safe padded place to land!).

el loco pollo

bigbenj_08 wrote:

el loco pollo wrote:

bigbenj_08 wrote:

Northwind
Is that the red at inners? reaaaaallly looking forward to it! Only got to do Glentress last time

I'm staying in Peebles for 2 weeks as of the 1st of August!! might se you about! :P

Cool beans man, you'll love Inners. May see you in the Traquair Arms or the cool pizza shop on the high street!

Is that the one that sells fish + chips, pizza, deep fried pizza, kebabs, deep fried kebabs, toilet roll, anadin and fags?
If so, that place is the best crazy odd awesome shop ever
I wanna try a deep fried pizza this time

That's the one!

Chaz.Harding

Steve_F - I wrote something similar...

keeko

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See the resemblance??

paul.skibum

GT sounds like a bit of a troll to me!

I've ridden trail centres a fair bit in Wales and dont know how they compare to Scotland but there is no way a racer would get round any of them - the climbs have tight hairpins and rock slabs and the like which would be hard to get round, puncture tyres, be pretty slick to ride up and the downs are interspused with rock gardens, jumps, roots, etc all of which would be pretty much impossible with slick narrow tyres, drop bars and the like.

Now maybe a semi slick tyred hybrid could get round certainly a good rider on a rigid mtb could with ease but as someone else said what's the point? They aren't designed to be ridden that way, the bikes aren't designed for it and only the foolish would try.

You'd certainly want armour on to attack it to any degree on the wrong bike!

cee

bigbenj_08 wrote:

Is that the one that sells fish + chips, pizza, deep fried pizza, kebabs, deep fried kebabs, toilet roll, anadin and fags?
If so, that place is the best crazy odd awesome shop ever
I wanna try a deep fried pizza this time

erm....all chip shops in scotland sell all of the items you list here!

deep fried pizza supper is so manky that it tastes great!

chuckd

cee wrote:

bigbenj_08 wrote:

Is that the one that sells fish + chips, pizza, deep fried pizza, kebabs, deep fried kebabs, toilet roll, anadin and fags?
If so, that place is the best crazy odd awesome shop ever
I wanna try a deep fried pizza this time

erm....all chip shops in scotland sell all of the items you list here!

deep fried pizza supper is so manky that it tastes great!

The mighty pizza crunch

Anonymous

rooty/rocky trails I would go for shin and elbow...just as you can get some good speeds up and doesn't hurt when you fall.

if you are going more gnarley then suit up and go fast as your limits will take or try and push it..

you may feel safer pushing it with more protection,, i've found its confidence and all in the mind.. probably why I flew over the bars last night.....fun though.;)

enjoy ya time up here matey....some great country

SDK2007

I used to ride without pads, then started pushing my riding to higher levels and inevitably fell off a lot and got injured.

Now I have a full face helmet & a pressure suit for DH runs and knee & elbow pads for standard trail centres.