Headcam run of Moelfre (downhill)

ilovedirt
ilovedirt Posts: 5,798
edited May 2012 in Your pics and vids
Not gotten round to filming anything 3rd person yet, been a bit busy,but I went on an uplift day at Moelfre on Sunday, here's a video of one of my runs. Love this track, it's silly fast!
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,467
    That looks like a good laugh 8) - pity Anglesey is so far away from me :(
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,594
    Like it looks liek a fun flowy down. though exposed wouldn't want to be up there in gale fore winds lol.
  • Majski
    Majski Posts: 443
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    That looks like a good laugh 8) - pity Anglesey is so far away from me :(


    There's 2 moelfre's. the one with the downhill track is near Oswestry, not the one in Anglesea. It's called Moelfre Hall
  • ilovedirt
    ilovedirt Posts: 5,798
    Haha, yeah this is Moelfre Hall near Oswestry.

    waylander- yeah the top section gets pretty scary when it's windy! (which is fairly often), luckily we had a good day with pretty much no wind or rain. Almost unheard of for north wales! Good fun track too, though it looks a lot smoother in the video, there's loads of braking bumps and it's pretty rocky.
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    B'Twin Triban 5
  • Majski
    Majski Posts: 443
    Yeah videos of moelfre do it no justice at all. In a vid it looks like a hardtailable bit of singletrack. Your arms hurt by the bottom though! Lots of braking bumps as you enter the steepish bit half way down before the fire road.

    The top section is nuts on a windy day
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,467
    Majski wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    That looks like a good laugh 8) - pity Anglesey is so far away from me :(


    There's 2 moelfre's. the one with the downhill track is near Oswestry, not the one in Anglesea. It's called Moelfre Hall
    Ta - my google-fu isn't good today :oops: Still, not quite as far away as I thought :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Majski
    Majski Posts: 443
    If you wanna ride there bear in mind it's privately owned so you either need to phone Jack and be nice - to which he might let you do your own uplifts or book on an uplift day which I think's a Mike Marsden (boarderline events) organised deal. I'd forget pushing up as it's a pretty long push for a really really rapid course
  • Majski
    Majski Posts: 443
    Ah, also you'd need permission even if you wanted to push - not just for uplifting.

    Is the uplift trailer still really bad there?
  • ilovedirt
    ilovedirt Posts: 5,798
    Yep, uplift is still the same, but they're working on it I hear.
    You can organise your own uplift there with Jac's trailers or your own vehicle, just give him a ring. He's a friendly chap. Think he charges something like £200 per day per trailer or something.

    I've ridden it on a hardtail before, was pretty interesting! You need SPDs really, otherwise your feet just get bounced off the pedals. There's braking bumps pretty much the whole way down except the flat-ish section after the road.
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