Llandegla Red and Blue

dsmiff

We were up there on Sunday, never seen it so busy before, my son spend his time stuck behind loads of riders. They don't seem to like moving for kids - but that's another story......

Mind you he was pleased with himself as he cleared the bridge on the freeride section - the bit at the end of your vid; as you can see most of the riders land too short, giving them a really heavy landing, he managed to jump that bit further on Sunday, I think it may be because he was so wound up from his ride!!

Muttly1981

dsmiff wrote:

We were up there on Sunday, never seen it so busy before, my son spend his time stuck behind loads of riders. They don't seem to like moving for kids - but that's another story......

Mind you he was pleased with himself as he cleared the bridge on the freeride section - the bit at the end of your vid; as you can see most of the riders land too short, giving them a really heavy landing, he managed to jump that bit further on Sunday, I think it may be because he was so wound up from his ride!!

I was busy the red wasn't too bad at all but saw plenty heading down the blue and black, i think it was the bridge that caught me out as it was the first time i'd ridden the freeride section. The drop off is a little buttock clenching but think i dabbed the brakes a touch and lost speed on the bridge leaving me with a short landing thus getting me out of shape leading to the crash on the next tabletop.

dsmiff

Just been up there today - the lad is almost there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6omXqJSFp_I


...... just another foot.

dan shard

great vid!

ollie_lucas1985

Would this be a good start for a first trail center? .. I would be going on my own and live about 4 hours away, would proberbly stay over somewhere local - Worth it or is there not enough to do for a "medium" rider..

I think I will be OK on the red but I've never been to a trail center before.

kaytronika

I've only been here and Healey Nab as far as graded routes is concerned... The red here is less challenging than that at the Nab... It's just longer... If you're travelling and you are used to doing distances of 15 miles plus, you might find just the one lap a little short... I usually chain a loop of the red and then a loop of the blue together.

It was my first trail centre, so I'd recommend it to others. Gonna take a friend here for his first trail centre experience soon.

Anonymous

If you find it short, then it's easy to loop around your favourite sections and session them a few times. I usually spend a good half a day to go round, playing on some of the blacks over and over.

dan shard

Theres a decent sized loop still barriered off on the red at the moment so its a bit shorter than normal. unfortunately its a good loop too with a loead of table tops.

I absolutely love degla, its the first place I ever went and even now after litterally (not litterally) a million times Im still not even close to being bored of it!

Anonymous

dan shard wrote:

Theres a decent sized loop still barriered off on the red at the moment so its a bit shorter than normal. unfortunately its a good loop too with a loead of table tops.

I absolutely love degla, its the first place I ever went and even now after litterally (not litterally) a million times Im still not even close to being bored of it!

Ditto. (apart from the first place I ever went!)
It's fun, even after tons of visits, since you can always pick up the speed faster and faster, and nail those blacksection corners a little bit better each time.

dan shard

I need to figure out how to loop the black sections. I assume its just from the fire road. Could do with taking a map printout really. I love parallel univers but at the same time its a real shame to miss out big jims so I want to do both really

Anonymous

Are you planning to go to the crudcatcher Llandegla meet-up? I'll show you how to loop them up.

Muttly1981

dan shard wrote:

Theres a decent sized loop still barriered off on the red at the moment so its a bit shorter than normal. unfortunately its a good loop too with a loead of table tops.

I absolutely love degla, its the first place I ever went and even now after litterally (not litterally) a million times Im still not even close to being bored of it!

I'll never forget the first time i rode the red route and had never hit a table top nevermind "the twins" and didn't see the chicken route so hit them both and landed both beautifully i was amazed/overjoyed at what i'd just acheived. I guess it's the little acheivements like that which gives you a bond to certain riding spots, i can go to Llandegla with mates and point out each little acheivement i've made since i started riding again in august/september.

Anonymous

I have to say, I'd never really come across any sensible jumps before going to llandegla. It's one of my weaknesses. But I'm steadily improving thanks to my visits there.

Muttly1981

yeehaamcgee wrote:

I have to say, I'd never really come across any sensible jumps before going to llandegla. It's one of my weaknesses. But I'm steadily improving thanks to my visits there.

I've been getting better every time i ride Llandegla and last sunday was the first off i'd had in the 6-7 months since i got back into riding, hopefully i'll lean from that mistake and nail that tabletop the next time i go, but have a feeling my sphincter will be chewing holes in my shorts :oops:

Lucky for me i've rediscovered some old dirt jumps from when i was a kid local to me so can build my confidence up on them once fully healed and back on the bike

dan shard

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Are you planning to go to the crudcatcher Llandegla meet-up? I'll show you how to loop them up.

hoping to but it depends on the date.
TBH Im there most saturdays anyway so by default I'll probably make it.

tsenior

i've grown to really like CL, at first i thought it was a bit short/limited but they've consistantly inproved and added to it over the years, its definetly biased towards smooth fast riding with jumps, but thats what most folk want so even though i prefer to try and squash em its still 8)

many of my local rides use the trails: meeting up with mates coming over for that day to do the black, as an "up" onto the moors, a quick descent down the blue after coming the long way back from work or an evening spin round the red. lucky to live so close

Anonymous

What's CL?

welshkev

yeehaamcgee wrote:

What's CL?

coed llandegla?

Anonymous

Oh yeah, DUH!

In Welsh, "Ll" is one letter, so I got confused! :oops:

dsmiff

Ditto, we are there virtually every Saturday and Sunday for about 4 years now with both my boys (live about 20 mins aways). I have seen the track expand and evolve over that time (along with my riding). I believe there is a lot of new track being built which is going to more "technical"; they always seem to be building something new!

It can get a bit busy at times (Sunday before last!), but doesn’t normally cause a problem on the trails. Mind you it’s always quieter over Easter, I guess it’s because people are doing “family things”, luckily for me “family things” is riding!!

Dirtydog11

dsmiff wrote:

I believe there is a lot of new track being built which is going to more "technical"; they always seem to be building something new!

I believe your right!

My Bro had a mechanical on Saturday and during the course of his 1hour walk back to the cafe he came across some WTF trail building, a completely new section!

dan shard

wahaaay!

dsmiff

See as this thread it running thought i'd post on here.......

The JJ Jumps are open again!!!


Just spotted a mates status on facebook.

Anonymous

Have they changed JJ's jumps? Cause frankly, the ones in the skills area, although fewer, were much better.

dsmiff

I don't know, but the whole loop and twins have been closed for weeks now. So we have been doing the first black twice to extend the run.

Can start to concentrate on our times again!!

Neily03

dan shard wrote:

I need to figure out how to loop the black sections. I assume its just from the fire road. Could do with taking a map printout really. I love parallel univers but at the same time its a real shame to miss out big jims so I want to do both really

It's dead easy, just a case of following the fire road back round and you can pretty much guess where to turn off.

I'm there most saturdays and do big jims and parrellel universe 2,3 or 4 times some days. 8)

lesz42

getting bored of the climb(ish) at llandegla :roll:


just a long drag up a hill

Anonymous

That has to be one of the stupidest comments I've ever read

ricardo666

Yeehah...I'm at degla most weekends...what and when is the crud catcher event ?

dsmiff

Yes I hate those climbs as well - why are they always uphill