Braefoot

Braefoot is found on the northside the fourth estuary down the road towards the oil depot.  Braefoot is a great biking place, it is owned by Shell and the riders have come to an agreement that they are allowed to build as long as the don't build on top of the structures. 

Braefoot is certainly the place for you if you enjoy the larger jumps and drops.  There are some well built large doubles and smaller easier ones, along with a road gap and massive roof gap.  There are lots of small trails, and the push up is not bad, and down the north side there is a longer fast track with some great techy bits and a long flat corner, great for getting a bit loose.

I had a casualty on the Glory though, i decided to give a 20 foot double a go, the first time i cleared it no problem and the second my back wheel hit the top log.  This cracked my MTX rim, and snapped 8 spokes, totally writing of the rim.  Picture above and left! I rekon if it hadn't been so wet it would have been fine, but was so slowly rolling.  Think this is going to be the last time on my glory, prefer riding the scratch.

Cambu

We decided to go to Cambu today, (Cambusbarron).  Although it is a bit of a drive it was certainly worth it, located just outside Stirling it boasts some of the best biking i have done to date in Scotland. 
The trails arn't the easiest to find, we started off by heading into the quarry, where some dirt jumps have been built by the locals, the probably arn't worth the drive if all you do is DirtJumping.  So we headed off up the hill and luckily met some young local Downhillers.  We started off walking up and just checking out the trails, the are very fast flowy trails here, not steep but some have big doubles and hips built into them, amazing fun. 

Cambu is notorious for being a bit of a huckers heaven, and when i heard there was a massive step down i had to have a quick look.  Although i don't consider myself to be overly wimpy when it comes to larger stuff, this was pretty big, there is about a 20 foot horizonaly distance and about 20/25ft vertcial, if it wasnt for one rock that stick out just before the landing, which would make casing it pretty much death i might have considered it, but theres always next time!  

We then got showed a newly built trail, lots of wooden structures, starts off with a long right hand wall ride, which is amazing, followed by a 2 metre bit of concreted track into a wooden berm (planks driven into the ground at an angle to creat a really fast running berm).  You then have a small kicked onto a northshore about 3 metres long.  you then have a pedally bit with some drops and a really nicley built path gap, and to finish it there is another path gap, it looks hard to clear but just boost of it and you will be fine!


Once again i decided to take the Scratch over the Glory, and it was defiantly the better decision!