Well done on coming third, Laura! At least you had some dry trails for the race. Such cool trails at Pitfichie. I remember riding Devil's Staircase way back when they first built it (2001?) - pretty eye opening only having v-brakes and no dropper. Tombsteen has been such a good addition, and of course my favourite White Lady. For me no other trail is quite like it. Great seeing these trails in a good quality format (btw liked the cameo in the DoonThaBrae video as well, Laura 😁).

Went to Thornielee in May for the first time - mint place and hardly anyone there! 👍🏻

Well done folks. Can’t believe trails were so dry then, I live 20mins from Pitfichie and everywhere been mud bath last couple weeks. I remember when macchiato was new and smooth and flow, it’s now chunky as, bent a crank one of last times I went down it.

Visited for the first time around 2yrs ago, keen to get back sometime as a few trails were closed. White Lady was my favourite on the day, especially the top part in the heather!

Well done guys a great VLOG 👊

Switches the kettle on and mashes the 4k button !

15:41 I feel the frustration!! 😂 Really nice riding the both of u! I’m adding Scotland to the “riding bucket list” now. Stage 1 looks so choppy.

We had a choice of Llandegla, or Antur Stiniog recently, and went for the uplift option! But this looks like a good place to visit next time.

Thank you for sharing some of the best locations in my beautiful green country.

From a post heart attack mid 60 year old man. Thank you for allowing me to join your adventure. Appreciated.

What has my life become? Locked in a room in the rain stoned off my arse watching some Scottish woman review mountain bike shoes in a wooden shack? I don't even own a bike! Or feet!! I need to to go outside and touch grass man......

What's your brake setup? I think mine would have definitely overheated on those trails! Ha

Proper trails up at Ae.

where was that? looks like a tricky customer

Being a valley local I dunno if you've heard the rumour that Thornie might be getting flattened by forestry work...all of it. :(

Thanks for sharing - really good to confirm that the trails at the top aren't crazily steep. I wasn't sure whether it was the famous GoPro flattening that made the trails look a bit less hairy. I stay abroad now but really want to get to these trails and Yair in the Tweed Valley when I'm back in Scotland sometime. So much to biking to choose from there!

What tyres you running that were grippy?

its a great place to ride, small area but trails are so good. good place to setup suspension as well.

Skillfully navigated through the tech of Thornielee, always good to see the different trails you can ride here, these trails seemed to have became more popular recently, thanks for sharing!

Hey there, great vid on Thornielee. I very recently watched your last one when you were there in the snow! Also visited this myself about 2 weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed the place. I first saw your vids of this place 3 years ago, and it's taken me this long to work up the skill and courage do to them!

When riding here what do you guys do to get to the top? Are you riding up?

Ridden here once on a very tired set of legs! Cant wait to return! Great riding and great VLOG 👍

Trails look in good condition and running well.. I'm still waiting to see a video on SNIPER at Yair

Lovely vid , as always!

Cracking vid guys nice ridin too. Awesome stuff n techy gnar. See you on the nxt 1 👏

Great place to ride, I think top dogging must be my favourite track

Rad

Laura, you are indestructible... Respect💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🚴🏻‍♀️

Yair?

This is for having a wee jobbie

Hi guys do you have a strava link for this ride pleases

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Laura I think with one or 2 more goes. You would have got further. Laura your the winner. 😁😁😁

Another great video! I am going to do this very soon! - what tyres are you running on the bikes please?

Is the guy Welsh, Zimbabwean or Russian? I'm usually pretty good with guessing accents, but this one keeps changing continents. That looked really tricky btw.

I was going to try to nail this in one day. Summer Puffer training 😂.

Going for the first time this weekend, any tips?

Impressivley skilled riding whilst out bikepacking especially short travel on steep trails, was in Ballater last year yet to check out Aboyne. Great adventure and mix of trail types thanks for sharing! 😁

A great big thank you guys for letting me enjoy a really hard and wet and technical ride from the comfort of my cycling couch.

Wow that looks so so hard wow

3:00 Looks lovely. My idea of Heaven.

Some shift Laura!! Well done - fantastic!!👊

It was good to see a lot of my old haunts as I grew up in Tarland fifty plus years ago and as a boy cycled all over on my road bike from Aberdeen to Balmoral with a couple of friends but have always hankered to get out into the wilderness on a bike and explore some of the tracks I see travelling back to Deeside from the Central Belt that meander into the hills. I now have the perfect tool my eMTB but age is not on my side but not done yet I hope. I never really remember the Midge growing up that was until I moved to Kintyre and then on to The Isle of Lewis where they are bred differently so I felt your pain with the bites as they always seem to go for my mouth also and anywhere else that is exposed.

Thanks Guys Looks Brilliant Another great Video.

Well Done Laura Loved the video looks hard going.

Excellent video but oh my word those bites looked rough.

Looks like a great few days, except for the midge anyway! I wouldn't have made it through the night!

Had to turn the sound down. Was getting worried the neighbours would think I'm watching a different type of content 😅

Another great adventure well captured Laura. Thanks for sharing.

Ooooh new vid new vid ❤ That looks like a lot of fun. Wish we had wide nature like that.