The Perrys Trail at Cannock Chace

[@CFRMTB]

Brilliant video on this nice little trail, thank you. We normally knock a right at the end of the section after stegosaurus, then cut in to Perry's trail, do the rollers, and carry on until cardiac hill, where we re-join the dog. Far better than that nasty root-y section, especially in the wet.

[@bikeandbeyond]

Glad you like the video Great route tip too. Thanks 👍🏻

[@jamesj97370]

Cannock needs some proper TLC, needs some new red trails and a lot of braking bumps removed!

[@bikeandbeyond]

Yeah agreed!

[@UKWormy2024]

I ride at Cannock quite a lot and the blue when riding with my son is great as you can ride along with him and still do the red bits to keep it interesting, and most bar the first you can still see the blue when doing the red bits, it’s also great at progressing kids onto full red routes, though I find it weird at Cannock that the red sections on the blue are harder than most of follow the dog red trail.

[@bikeandbeyond]

@@UKWormy2024 it’s good that you and your son can both ride together and both have fun. Yeah it’s an odd place to put a feature like this.

[@ltrtg13]

I usually do 3 laps of Perry's Trail. I then cross Perry's Trail and do the rest of the FtD. I generally do the second rock feature. I haven't done Bambi's Drop. Yet.

[@Schwimano]

I bet that roll/drop looks way bigger in person. Nice Vid!

[@bikeandbeyond]

You’ve got that right😅

[@andrewtabner3761]

@@bikeandbeyondas a beginner/just about tickling intermediate, I’m curious how you approach these. Actively lift front wheel, or just speed and shift weight back?

[@bikeandbeyond]

@@andrewtabner3761 approaching the drop I was going at a good speed and was planning to just lift the front end a bit and then shift my weight forward to hit the steep landing, but I found that the rocks before it sapped all my speed (most likely put there to stop people from going too fast and landing to flat), so I ended up pushing the front end and trying to lift the tear end over the lip slightly to avoid hitting my chainring and going over the bars. Probably not very good technique, but it’s a bit of an awkward one. I would suggest practicing on a ‘normal drop’ before riding this for the first time.

[@andrewtabner3761]

@@bikeandbeyond thanks!

[@lukelloyd7934]

It really doesn't 🥴

[@SDK2006b]

We usually do this Blue as a warm up and then ride FtD & the Monkey trails. It's the perfect trail for young kids learning to ride. My son first rode it in Oct 2021 when he was 10 and loved it.

[@bikeandbeyond]

@@SDK2006b yeah a perfect warm up/ kids trail

[@Moley_75]

They reused the drop used by the conmonwealth games race, just moved it and made it smaller

[@andrewray8433]

Another good video Olly. I’ve rode this blue trail many times. It’s a great blue one ideal for children to start on. The Bambi’s Drop was moved from the bottom of the hill where the red section goes up the him through the rock garden. It was built for the commonwealth games. That’s also where the name comes from. Perry was the name of the mascot. Perry the bull. A bull being used as the games were based in Birmingham. Home of the Bullring Centre.

[@bikeandbeyond]

Awesome. I knew the drop was from the games but had no idea how the trail it got its name. Great bit of knowledge @andrewray8433 👏🏻👍🏻

[@awsomenugget47]

9k subs!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@bikeandbeyond]

Yeah I am stoked! Thanks to you guys for watching 🎉

[@Matty-B-on-an-MTB]

I was riding Perry's yesterday with a couple of newbie riders, one of which was a complete first timer. I thought he was actually going to be sick half way around, which show's either how unfit my friend is, but also how under rated Perry's trail is. It's an awesome intro loop, with enough feature's to keep experienced riders entertained while showing newbies around. It took me a few visit's to go over Bambi's leap, but once you have done it, it's far less scary than it looks! We went on to ride Follow the Dog after, minus the newbie, again showing Perry's is a great warm up to get bike fit before going on to the Dog and/or Monkey trails. There were some awesome "unofficial" features scattered around Perry's but i was a bit sad to see they have been fenced off after a rider collided with a pedestrian on a fire road, while descending one of the unofficial features. Shame as they made it even more fun. But i'm please to see one of the off pistes is getting some attention after it was used in the Commonwealth games, and add's a bit of variety to Perry's, if you don't mind an extra climb!

[@Matty-B-on-an-MTB]

PS, they ran Perry's trail backwards when they hosted the commonwealth games. The rock garden you rode up, that goes straight up the middle of the zig-zag climb, was removed and made gnarlier, then used as a descent, not a climb. At the bottom of those rocks was "Dears Leap", which was built into the hill that leads up to the start of the rock climb/zig-zag. That's why there's no grass on part of the hill, it still hasn't grown back fully! It was twice as high as the existing drop! It was HUGE and terrifying! I don't believe it was ever officially opened to the public. I spoke to one of the builders when they were doing this and he was test riding it, who told me once the games were done, they planned to return Perry's to its original condition, replacing the rocks to make a climb again, completely removed Dears Leap - which was never intended to be permanent, by order of the Forestry Commission - and built "Bambi's Leap" for those of us who were itching to ride Dears leap! Clearly they fulfilled this, which was nice to see. Often people moan that Cannock gets little to no investment, this was a great move by Forestry England and has made Perry's fun for all.

[@stephenwoodrow6126]

Great to see / show that 'blues' can be just as much (well almost) fun as 'reds' 👍. Another great video and it's fab to see you've now fixed your rear mech. 😂😂😂

[@bikeandbeyond]

Hey, thanks. Yeah the rear mech has been a thorn in my side for a couple of weeks. Really glad it is finally sorted😅

[@COOKIE_wcc_]

There's some great features at the chase the slab or have you called it? Bambi? Pretty easy just one question why did you sort of jump off it

[@musa9784]

👍👍

[@Smiffy1203]

The video really doesn't do that drop justice, it really is intimidating drop when your at the top lol

[@bikeandbeyond]

It looks so easy on camera 😅

[@Smiffy1203]

@@bikeandbeyond I did it once with my daughter and over committed, felt like I was falling forever, even let out a little squeak to my daughter's amusement 🤣