DarkTom
April 5th 06, 05:44 PM
Hi all !
Two weekends ago my brother, Ozzy, and I went to see my parents. They
live in Dumfries and Galloway (where we went to school), proper foot
and mouth territory a while back. I, of course, took my Muni. Ben (my
brother) took his videocamera.
The 7 Stanes project have been busy round here making the Kirroughtree
cycle route and some stuff at Glentrool.
At Kirroughtree they found some huge bits of granite sticking out of
the ground so they cleared more of it and made it a feature of the bike
tracks. It is a bit off the track, but easily accessible by road/car
if you're just going to it itself.
They decided to call it "McMoab" as it is a smaller version of Moab,
and it's in Scotland. Everything should have "Mc" in front of it here!
- McUnicycle, McDinner, McPub, McEtc.
The three of us took my ma's wee gay 4X4, and went to find McMoab.
Working purely from a print out of the 7Stanes Kirroughtree map, off we
went. It is out in the middle of nowhere in a big newly-cleared area
of forestry land. My brother took his videocamera along so he filmed
me and Ozzy playing on the rocks.
The Video can be found 'here' (http://tinyurl.com/qcd2n). It is 25Mb,
320X240, wmv format, and lasts 6min50.
Now my brother is no cameraman and it was very windy up there so please
excuse the shaky photography! When I was knackered from cycling, Ben's
face was bright red and he couldn't move his fingers! BBrrr!! Good
job I was driving home!
The start of the route has the usual 7 Stanes logo and symbols (black,
red, green, etc) So far, the hardest graded section of 7 Stanes I have
done is a double black diamond, and this was the Mabie Dark Side, where
I broke my big toe!
McMoab has a black diamond and a SKULL AND CROSS-BONES !!!! You know
you are in for fun when you see that!
McMoab is all rough granite, the kind that grips and grips and grips
but would rip you up if you fell on it! It also destroys tyres
quickly. The video doesn't show it too well, but lots of it is very
steep. It is very hoppy, I'm gonna go back with my trials uni, and it
soon tired me out hopping on my (heavy) muni.
I reckon that on a bike, McMoab would be stupidly hard! My flatmate
says he's done it, but he is good on mountain bikes and has been riding
them since he could. But on unicycles it is amazing! I wasn't really
in the mood, but you could spend all day there finding different gaps
and lines to do. When I go back, Pebbles will come and we will film
more (on a tripod!!).
I recommend this place to everybody, hope you enjoy my video, and also
hope that watching it makes you want to go there.
T.
p.s i have tried an andrew carter style preview image for this
vid/post. hope it works....
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DarkTom
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-\"just eat less pies, and then the loads on your seatpost will be
less.\" - johnhimsworth
\"i am a girl\" - amanda.gallacher
\"you could help by not making it look so darn easy.\" - chrashing
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Two weekends ago my brother, Ozzy, and I went to see my parents. They
live in Dumfries and Galloway (where we went to school), proper foot
and mouth territory a while back. I, of course, took my Muni. Ben (my
brother) took his videocamera.
The 7 Stanes project have been busy round here making the Kirroughtree
cycle route and some stuff at Glentrool.
At Kirroughtree they found some huge bits of granite sticking out of
the ground so they cleared more of it and made it a feature of the bike
tracks. It is a bit off the track, but easily accessible by road/car
if you're just going to it itself.
They decided to call it "McMoab" as it is a smaller version of Moab,
and it's in Scotland. Everything should have "Mc" in front of it here!
- McUnicycle, McDinner, McPub, McEtc.
The three of us took my ma's wee gay 4X4, and went to find McMoab.
Working purely from a print out of the 7Stanes Kirroughtree map, off we
went. It is out in the middle of nowhere in a big newly-cleared area
of forestry land. My brother took his videocamera along so he filmed
me and Ozzy playing on the rocks.
The Video can be found 'here' (http://tinyurl.com/qcd2n). It is 25Mb,
320X240, wmv format, and lasts 6min50.
Now my brother is no cameraman and it was very windy up there so please
excuse the shaky photography! When I was knackered from cycling, Ben's
face was bright red and he couldn't move his fingers! BBrrr!! Good
job I was driving home!
The start of the route has the usual 7 Stanes logo and symbols (black,
red, green, etc) So far, the hardest graded section of 7 Stanes I have
done is a double black diamond, and this was the Mabie Dark Side, where
I broke my big toe!
McMoab has a black diamond and a SKULL AND CROSS-BONES !!!! You know
you are in for fun when you see that!
McMoab is all rough granite, the kind that grips and grips and grips
but would rip you up if you fell on it! It also destroys tyres
quickly. The video doesn't show it too well, but lots of it is very
steep. It is very hoppy, I'm gonna go back with my trials uni, and it
soon tired me out hopping on my (heavy) muni.
I reckon that on a bike, McMoab would be stupidly hard! My flatmate
says he's done it, but he is good on mountain bikes and has been riding
them since he could. But on unicycles it is amazing! I wasn't really
in the mood, but you could spend all day there finding different gaps
and lines to do. When I go back, Pebbles will come and we will film
more (on a tripod!!).
I recommend this place to everybody, hope you enjoy my video, and also
hope that watching it makes you want to go there.
T.
p.s i have tried an andrew carter style preview image for this
vid/post. hope it works....
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Filename: mcmoab ss.jpg |
|Download: http://www.unicyclist.com/attachment/12803 |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
--
DarkTom
'*_My_Gallery_*' (http://tinyurl.com/9bnux)
-\"just eat less pies, and then the loads on your seatpost will be
less.\" - johnhimsworth
\"i am a girl\" - amanda.gallacher
\"you could help by not making it look so darn easy.\" - chrashing
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