Scotland weekender...

Well it's been nearly a week since we got back and I'm the first to get on here and do a writeup! Personally I'd have been up here quicker if it wasn't for running round like a mad-un trying to sort Wideopen Issue 6 (which is out now by the way).

We were not blessed with the best of weather but un-deterred we headed north at the crack of dawn on Friday and hit Palnure for Kirroughtree forest shortly before 11am.
The setup there is quite good, little bike rental shop, cafe and toilets, and on a Friday it was quiet...

It's always fun to ride a new location - the anticipation of what you'll find keeps you going... unfortunately Kirroughtree was a bit of a dissappointment. It was good but just never really seemed to get going, the flow wasn't appalling but the descents never really materialised... we won't be going back.

Up to Peebles via the red roads and James and Ross beasted across Rally style in the thirsty scoob - Phil and I also headed cross country whereas Chris and Jon went via Dumfries... in for 7.30pm and a nice bit of grub.

Saturday brought SNOW!!! and it also brought Tez! Yeah with the white stuff under foot the road to Buzzard's Nest car park was closed and we faced the mammoth road climb from the hub to get up to the red route. It was COLD and hard work and fairly slippy in places. Spooky Woods was an experience, lots of grip where it was clear but mid berm you could hit a snow patch and kill yourself sliding into a tree!! All fun. It cleared up but with the temperature we headed back early. Out Saturday night for the obligatory curry in brief Scott won the darts and the Keg was 'interesting' as usual.

Sunday the group split, half doing the black route at Inners, and the other half doing the black route at Glentress. I can't speak for the Inners boys but at GT we had an awesome time... I really am falling in love with the wilderness and more rugged natural trails on the black route versus the manicured red route.

Monday and we headed to Inners for a push up session on Caddon Bank. After discovering my rear wheel on the Coiler Dee-lux had 3 snapped spokes I joined Jon on the hardtail and proceeded to whoop Chris and Phil's full sus asses!

Home time came to quick leaving us with the nagging question of how soon can we go back?

20 minutes of footage is now on the Mac, and will be edited up. We didn't take many photos - I've captured some stills from the footage (which will be on DVD at the end of the year!)...



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Rock on.