Trail of DOOM
Majski
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You would definitely get some good views from there!!
Does look a bit thin though...Specialized Hardrock 06
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I'd probably not do that, but the Portal Trail in Moab looks a lot worse.0
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It's all in the mind. Dead easy trail and without the little cliff my granny (RIP) could do it.
Good reason to avoid stupidly wide bars though.I don't do smileys.
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There are parts on my normal route that are as narrow, or narrower in places, over a pretty steep drop of four or five meters into a brook, but there is no way I would try that one!0
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Very easy trail if it were flat either side.
However the hardest with that cliff. Like cooldad says, technically its all in the mind but you wouldn't get me there0 -
Good job i'm not epileptic, that vid would of killed me.
From the brief bit I saw, as said, easy trail but not a chance i'd do it. It's like a more (lot) severe version of the route down into the quarry bottom at Lee Quarry. Still not done that without dabbing yet. Dont look left, don't look left....0 -
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Could? Did you not watch the video?!snowrider wrote:http://www.vitalmtb.com/videos/member/Mountain-Bike-Takes-a-Ride-in-Class-5-Rapids,14502/k-shiz,14
Things could go very wrong on this one too!0 -
That was quite funny actually.I don't do smileys.
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ilovedirt wrote:
Could? Did you not watch the video?!snowrider wrote:http://www.vitalmtb.com/videos/member/Mountain-Bike-Takes-a-Ride-in-Class-5-Rapids,14502/k-shiz,14
Things could go very wrong on this one too!
Yeah went pretty wrong but at least he didnt go in the water and he got the bike back somehow. A person going in the water there could be very bad0 -
I wouldnt ride that trail with the drop there - I was cringing away from the video. The guys rode it at a very sensible pace and as has been said its an easy trail to ride (impressively well maintained really for its location!) but the objective danger changes things if you fear heights.
I rode a trail with a friend of mine out of Les Gets 7 or 8 years back - he had spotted the route on a map and chatted to another friend who said he'd ridden it, there was supposed to be a bit that you woul dhave to walk but the rest of it was ride-able. We climbed up to the start of the trail proper and it was a sweet little climbing section of singletrack, it headed round the shoulder of a mountain and remained a readily rideable trail albeit with a gradually steepening drop below and hill above - after another mile or so of steady riding on this hill side track it turned into a section of Via Ferratta where we had to hike/climb with bikes on our shoulders for about 20 minutes on a very narrow sketchy ledge - Holding my old Patriot (35 lbs or so) in one hand, the metal guide rope (with very dodgy attachment to the rock face) in the other and searching for footholds as we climbed freaked me out massively.
By the time we got to the rest of the track which would be ride-able I was a gibbering wreck and the remaining trail was a foot wide with a 70 degree drop below us and above us and there was no way I could ride - I was just so inside my own head with fear it just looked like a cliff to me - the terrain eventually changed and I got back on for some great singletrack and an amazing switchback descent to Morzine but for about an hour there I was ruined.Closet jockey wheel pimp whore.0 -
looks fairly average tbh0
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Some nutty trails on here! That Portal Trail that Warpcow said is the best looking one I think!0
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Notice how his helmet never actually looks left. He twitches a few times, but he is fixed on riding straight ahead. After all, you'll hit what ever you're looking at.0
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Depends on your head for heights really. As said, nothing there technically that most of us can't do. It's just the fear of if you make a mistake, clip the bars etc (something I did at Afan, wide bars, clipped a rock, narrow trail, rolling down the hill
... though that was on the climb!).
Also, wide angle on that camera makes it look much worse than it is, but still I'm sure if you go over it's going to be game over.0 -
That looked ace.
Lots of other really good biking there. Well worth a trip imo, and cheap and easy to get there too.0
