Golspie Highland Wildcat trails. Whats it like?

numptyfish
numptyfish Posts: 62
edited July 2010 in Routes
Anyone been all the way up to it? Whats it like? Ideal bike to take?

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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    Not been myself, should be up there later in the year but I'm told it's fairly hard :lol: As in "I'm glad we did laggan black the day before because it was a good warmup" hard. Very highly spoken of though.
    Uncompromising extremist
  • CFS
    CFS Posts: 124
    The Black is hard, rocky steps no chicken runs, way too much for me. Mind you there is video on you tube of folk making it look easy.

    I would say you'd be best on a 140mm travel bike, you need something that can climb and descend.

    The Red is no problem on a HT.
    Shot by both sides...
  • Liftman
    Liftman Posts: 55
    Its an awesome trail, well worth the effort to get there. Proper black climb on the lactic ladder. Do the full black its well worth it.
    Down as one of the best trails ive ridden.
  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    Excellent trail. The technical climb is a highlight; the descent is actually less technical than Laggan IMO. Its rocky but fast and unlike at Laggan I never got off to have a better look at things.
  • Greig M
    Greig M Posts: 86
    Golspie is a Must. That was my first ever ride on a purpose built course.

    Its a fair climb to the top right enough. You will want something that can climb but decend aswell and handle rock gardens. Ive done it twice. Once on a Kona Kikapu and once one a Cube LTD comp hardtail. The kona is better for the top more technical sections whereas once you get down towards the end and it moves onto the Red/Back and then red you will want a hardtail.

    The Lactic Ladder is near imposible unless your on like a Steel Framed hardtail or something like a Genesis Altitude 10/20 etc. I would adivse you to go all the way to the top as its the funnest. Although if you do find it tiring you can go on to it about 2/3 of the way up.

    But watch out on the roller coster about 1/5 of the way down as my friend and tried to whip in a space that wasent big enough and fell about 13 ft and his wheel buckled so it was pushing for the rest of the way,

    What were you thinking of taking?

    There is some chiken runs on the really hard bits but there nothing where you will have to push for a while section. THe most you will have to do is get off and push for 20 seconds.

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