If only every day could be NEW BIKE DAY! Orbea Rallon First Run -Scotland MTB-Fife MTB-Braefoot MTB

I've made a change! I have finally taken the plunge and got a new bike. An Orbea Rallon. Watch my first outing on the new rig.
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[@DownhillDesireMTB]

what a beauty, you lucky boy😀

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Cheers mate, it's brilliant, so different from my old bike. Very confidence inspiring. 😀🤙🤙🤙

[@92redferrari]

Great to see you with a new bike.🚴🚲👍👌

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Cheers, I'm loving it! 😁

[@livelifefullytomax]

Looks like fun. Really good video editing. 👍

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Cheers buddy, glad you enjoyed it 👍 😀 🤙🤙🤙

[@DansanMTB]

Yes! New bike days are the best, Rallon is a really good machine man, once you get used to the big wheels you will be flying! 😃💪

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Cheers mate, hopefully one day I'll attempt an actual mountain...but not for a while yet, don't want to end up in a morgue!😵☠️💀🤣🤣🤣🤙🤙🤙

[@DansanMTB]

@muddymongoosemtb9873 🤣🤣 there's a few munros that you'd be able to ride no bother mate 😊💪💪

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

@TheDanielflp do you have any suggestions for a first time easier Munro to try?

[@RicardoPetrazzi]

Nice one man! what a belter of a bike....I expect you will be at home with it in no time... you'll be ploughing through stuff you never thought you could do before.

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Cheers mate, I'm getting to grips with it now. It has taken a bit to get used to as it's so different from my old bike. But it's certainly inspiring confidence in me to be able to tackle things I would have struggled with before. 😀🤙🤙🤙

[@roberttobin194]

Fantastic Donald well done hitting the step up! I went from a Giant Trance to a Stumpjumper Evo with 160/150 and I feel I could ride anything now if I can get the guts to try. Biggest difference is possibly moving to 29" wheels I can definitely roll larger features now. Enjoy your new bike

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Thanks Robert! Yeah, I feel the same, bigger travel and wheels are certainly boosting my confidence. A big difference for me as well is that my old bike was an xc bike with steeper head angle and the top bar was high so I couldn't get the seat out of the way when going down steep trails. Which made me feel like I was going to go over the bars unless I leaned really far back but then that put me in a terrible body position. It's also got a longer wheelbase which makes me feel more centered and balanced on the bike. I'm very happy with it. 😁Cheers mate.😀🤙🤙🤙

[@JMTBFLOW]

Congrats, I've got a Rallon from 2016, still love riding it.

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Cheers mate, they are great bikes. Nick McAlindon "N29 Mountain Biking" used to have one so I'd seen them up close and knew they were great bikes, so eventually after much research and speaking to other MTBers about other bikes I settled on it. Glad I did as it feels great. I'm happy to have joined you in the Orbea gang! 😀🤙🤙🤙

[@JMTBFLOW]

@@muddymongoosemtb9873 How's Braefoot running these days, haven't been there in a long time?

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

@SideWalkSurfer7 It's running well mate. Always good for a muck about.😀🤙🤙🤙

[@rossjacksonmtb]

Great effort on the step up - still to tackle that myself. Nice bike too 😊

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Thanks Ross, was chuffed to give it a go at last and it wasn't too bad at all. Still to do it cleanly but I'll get there. Cheers mate 😀🤙🤙🤙

[@dems_mtb]

nice bike!

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Cheers buddy, I'm in love with it!😀

[@andrewtaylor1826]

Awesome mate well dun and well sent 🤙🏼 lovely looking bike to

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Cheers Andrew, was a great feeling to finally do the step up. Another Braefoot feature scored off the list....how long until the monster jumps?!!!😳🤪🤕🤕🤕🤣🤣🤣

[@andrewtaylor1826]

@@muddymongoosemtb9873 hahaha give me a shout when your trying them and al definitely come down to watch 🤣🤣🤣🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

@@andrewtaylor1826 🤣🤣🤣

[@garyalexander3281]

Always great getting a new bike, nice one! 29er and longer travel seems to fit the bill with yourself, recent hire bike had 29 wheels definitely easier getting over rough terrain, well done on that step up have looked at it myself and thought nah! 😂 Higher irl, thanks for sharing Donald! 😁🤙

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Thanks Gary.👍😀 the 29er wheels certainly help rolling over stuff and I've found they are faster rolling. I was pretty daunted at the prospect of the step up before even though I thought I could probably do it. The new bike gave me the confidence and to be honest I was relaxed when I came to do it. It wasn't as bad as it looked. As Pete was saying on the video, with enough speed the jump kind of takes care of you itself. Should give it a go when you are next at Braefoot. 😀

[@garyalexander3281]

@@muddymongoosemtb9873 Sound advice from Pete about speed it's just trying to get the balance between going faster to clear the step up and not going too fast, losing control and going flying 😂, reminds me of one time doing jump line at Beecraigs on old bike getting in the air but feeling myself getting flung forward managed to recover but was scary 😱

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

@garyalexander3281 yeah, I know what you mean, I got bucked doing a jump at Deuchny and nearly went over the bars🤣🤣🤣 it was scary! 🤣🤣🤣

[@crazyoldmaninthewoods]

Nice machine Donald, so when's the first enduro? Andy

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

🤣🤣🤣Me? Enduro? Do you want me to die of a heart attack! 🥵🥵🥵🤣🤣🤣 Seriously though I'm no racer, just want to be able to tackle tougher technical trails, that's what I enjoy trying to do. I'm loving the bike, so far, sooo good. 😀 Cheers Andy!😁🤙🤙🤙

[@dangerousdave1970]

Well done dude, bike looks awesome. good to see your confidence improving with the wheels off the ground!

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Cheers Dave, the bike is certainly helping with the confidence. 😀 You been getting out much?

[@dangerousdave1970]

@@muddymongoosemtb9873 ye, im getting out a fair amount cheers Don. been riding Pitmedden and pitlochry quite a bit lately.

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

@dangerousdave1970 cool, I've not been to Pitlochry yet. My mate Paterson recommends it but he says the trails are pretty steep and difficult. I know you like the steep stuff so I can well imagine that they are tough trails. 😀🤙🤙🤙

[@dangerousdave1970]

@@muddymongoosemtb9873 for the most part they are, but there's some not too difficult stuff up there also. V1 & V1.2 are really nice and not difficult. Conons DH is also pretty straightforward. for the most part totem is pretty straightforward, but does have 1 wee tricky bit. and then the rather amusingly named 'shut yer puss' which is one of the greatest trails i have ever ridden-and quite straightforward also, then there's Cathros DH trail, which is ok and not difficult. other than that, the other trails are pretty nuts

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

@@dangerousdave1970 I'll have to get up there and check them out. It does sound good.😀🤙🤙🤙

[@TimmyTea]

funny question what do you put your tyre psi to ? loving the new bike i have the one down from you and i love it :)

[@muddymongoosemtb9873]

Cheers TimmyTea! I run tubeless tyres and usually run about 20 psi on the front and between 22-24 psi on the back. On this occasion as it was so dry and had been for a while before coming out I pumped the tyres up more. I can't remember what psi I pumped them to now. But it was very dusty and slippery so I put them back to my usual settings that I'd run when it's wet and that helped get a bit more grip.