Virtual DBP
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Well after my how do you learn to ride off road thread, i took my middle one (9yr) along to glentress along with my oldest one (13yr) and his mate.
We hired bikes (Kona Charger) and had a great day out. We started up at the skills area and had a few goes at the jumps ...the 3 table tops that are back to back.
We then went off on a trail ride, i took my youngest one on the blue loop that took in betty blue and blue velvet sections while my oldest one and their mate did the bitch/matrix and magic mushroom bits; i know this because we did nothing but watch youtube videos that night of people on those bits!
After that we went back to the free ride section and we all repeatedly did the series of jumps from the top (even an old fella like me managed to get “good air”!) and the big table top box thing which looks a bit higher when your going down it than it does watching at the side.
Anyway thanks for all the comments on my earlier thread... we all really enjoyed the day out, the climbs meant my youngest one had to get off and push quite a bit but he loved the freeride route (so maybe bmx’ing would be best for him) and now we’re all saving up for big expensive off road machines!
As a side note i think if i were to take this up, i'd take advantage of lessons to improve my techniques because most of the things i did were by virtue of just going for it as opposed to applying great technique
We hired bikes (Kona Charger) and had a great day out. We started up at the skills area and had a few goes at the jumps ...the 3 table tops that are back to back.
We then went off on a trail ride, i took my youngest one on the blue loop that took in betty blue and blue velvet sections while my oldest one and their mate did the bitch/matrix and magic mushroom bits; i know this because we did nothing but watch youtube videos that night of people on those bits!
After that we went back to the free ride section and we all repeatedly did the series of jumps from the top (even an old fella like me managed to get “good air”!) and the big table top box thing which looks a bit higher when your going down it than it does watching at the side.
Anyway thanks for all the comments on my earlier thread... we all really enjoyed the day out, the climbs meant my youngest one had to get off and push quite a bit but he loved the freeride route (so maybe bmx’ing would be best for him) and now we’re all saving up for big expensive off road machines!
As a side note i think if i were to take this up, i'd take advantage of lessons to improve my techniques because most of the things i did were by virtue of just going for it as opposed to applying great technique