This is on my shortlist for my next bike. I would love to see a follow-up video at some point.

Nice. I’m hoping to get one next month here in North America. Glad to finally see a review. Good Luck!!

gonna need to pink it up a bit Mandy😀 great looking bike,

WHY would someone need to ride electric bikes on down hill trails?! For getting back to the top ... but if you used human power your legs and heart it would be FAR better for you. All of you.

Ha ha ha. Are you riding an electric bike? On downhill trails? Ha ha ha. Loll. People would be better off avoiding electric bike and using their own human power - legs, cardio, lungs, heart, etc. This is the way to get the most out of cycling and this is the way to get the most out of exercise and fitness. Electric bikes just cheat the rider and society and electric bikes dramatically reduce the health benefits of cycling.

Love riding Swinley we meet three or four times a year there. Last visit - Sat 14th Dec 24 and it looked a lot different! Not surprising after the recent storms. Bit of Winter maintenance / repair going on, some closed runs, loads of wet stuff (Red 1 - 6 for sure), and lots of boggy stuff, but great fun. Summer or Winter its always a good ride out and the Crown Estate does a fab job of maintaining it. Will try it on a eMTB one day. Thanks for the vid.

This really inspired me to get on my bike.

Are you the lady i spoke to and you asked how the trail was running or something along those lines on friday?

Great to see some lovely sunshine now winter is here!

I've only been the once to GT, watching that has made me want to get back there

I was there on the 24th the snow was awesome! Gray vid 👍🏻

I did a 49th birthday ride at Glentress on the 15th of November. Sweet!

Great video Mandy - thanks for sharing! Really good to see what a blue trail is like. I took my daughter to the new 'Old Bobs' green trail a couple of weeks back and we had a lot of fun on it, at least until she flew off it in a panic but just a few grazes and a knock to the confidence as a consequence!

Thinking of trying my daughter on this with her new bike at Xmas. Are there many climbs?

Fire road by the side of beast of burden is way quicker than this ! Ive done all routes up many times

Great riding! Keep Practicing corners, standing up with pedals flat leaning the bike and you will get better. Really nice green trails for learning!

Good to see you back Mandy. I'm honoured that FOD have named a trail after me, even though I've not made it down yet - hopefully you'll get your own trail too!!

I was there in 2019,glad to see it again ❤

Hay Mega :-) Found you via the FOD ride as my wife and I went there resently and did the basic loop. Verderers is next and we neeed to drive back up there :-) So watched your video to see what its like as I scream if I get more than a few inches off the ground and the wife just gets off and pushes. It looks perfect for us so thanks. Moores is out local track. Not great but fun and not been for a few years. I am just about getting to the point of being able to cycle then now and do a lap b4 heading home. Whatching this I must go back. You should have given the Pump track a go. Its very rollable :-)

Nice. Chain slapper and snow white have been redone finally much better now.

This is our local trail centre! Hope you had a good time!!

15:40 you should be full speed 40 mph !! Send it 🙌🏼🤣👍🏾👍🏾

moving target....no thanks

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That looks very flowy, but I bet falling off would have not been fun!!

Think I prefer Super View. Are you using a chest mount? I normally have the gopro on my head but would like a different angle at times.

Pay for the uplift.. no brainier, wasted time and energy

Wow! Gorgeous scenery! Beautiful trail. I hope your ankle heals quickly. Thanks for the ride!

For a green trail it looks brilliant, shame it's such a long way from where I live.

The quickest ways it to buy the uplift

some of it is defo quite enjoyable, but it's sooooooooo narrow!!!! i don't go there often, but when i do i really enjoy the piece and tranquility there as it's always so quiet!!!

Great video, I’m a beginner but after about a month I’m totally and utterly hooked. I’m lucky to only live two miles down the road in Hednesford so I ride on the Chase all the time. Love Perry’s trail and have done most of Follow the Dog, but like you I haven’t yet tackled the rock garden at the start.

Well done. Would be interesting to see the time difference between the two bikes. The big question is which did you enjoy the most.

Just found your channel and really enjoyed this video. I am a total newb to bike trails and I find the way you describe the ride and the detailed explanation of the features really helpful for someone like me. My first time on a trail was about 3 weeks ago at Sherwood pines where I did 2 runs of the blue trail, at the end of the runs I was grinning like a Cheshire cat. I am a 65 year old on an 20 inch folding fat tyre ebike. Both the bike and I managed the runs without incident. After watching this video I will be doing the red trail next time:) Thanks again for the great commentary while you are riding.

Another great effort. I sometimes used to come off the final rock garden on Nitrous, but if you just look ahead rather than down you should be fine, you can even pedal to keep your speed and balance.

Ive just discovered your videos and am really impressed with your attitude and content. If you are unsure about the first descent just cycle up to GoApe then straight up the fire road to get section 3. You will really enjoy the new section 5, its very flowy, you can pump and even get a bit of air, and session it if you like it. After seeing some of your other videos the final blue berm section is well within your skill set, and is one you can session if you turn left rather than right after the berms. My final comment is that if you can do over 30 miles round Dalby, even on an ebike - chapeau!!!

Im really enjoying your video trip Mandy! You can avoid a lot of fire road by going straight up to Poltys from the Grove car park. Once you get used to the "horrible hill" you can wizz up it looking for the best lines and it does become a lot more fun. If you go all the way up to the top and do Section 13 you can miss the black Boneshaker trail and carry on to Special K on the red. You get a lot more downhill for the effort of doing the climb! If you are feeling fit (and confident!!) there is another descent down Pikes Teeth and Oddsox. Overall this is a better use of your time and energy than doing the full red loop.

Its a great place for building confidence, alas it does have regular diversions - with the felling. Great video!

Well done Mandy, you defo picked the right time to go with the weather!!!

How many climbs up get you do off a single battery charge?

How long does it take to get to the top. Only ask as I’m going back with an e-bike this weekend

i went there on the 7th of july and it was 26c and was dusty as hell but was amazing

not been there for years might have to go back and check it out

Nice one Mandy 💥

Its called the cottage climb....ebikes arent allowed on fire roads now

Ride it today for the first time, and tbf thought it was rubbish. They keep building these trails on flats with jumps in that really you aren’t going to jump ever. Those tight berms are pretty good but the rest was a shame. Liked your vid though! Thankyou

Thanks Mandy - really good info on the ride

Il stick to going up the beast route On average 4 runs per day and no ebike

The steep ebike off the beast is pretty quick, I was up before friends on the uplift but of course there can be a lot of variables there. The steep climb is pretty brutal though. I have a Trek Rail 7 and weigh not much more than 9st. I can get 4 possibly 5 full climbs in on a full charge. I did 4 last time with some part climbs to session stuff.

The uplift is quicker 👍🏻