Black Canon Collective

Month: December 2010

  • XC Ride Away – Brechfa 12th Dec

    After much discussion over a nice cold drink, we’ve decided we’ll travel to Brechfa to try our riding skills out on another of Welsh riding centres.

    It will mean another of Pete’s early Sunday 7am departure’s, as it is another 2.5hr drive.

    The Drop Off Cafe Double Decker Diner says it’s on site at weekends, however we should take food and drink for the day just in case it’s not.

    As always you will need a good quality, well maintained bike with plenty of brake pad material, a helmet and suitable clothing and spares i.e. – spare tubes, power links etc. There
    is no bike shop on site.

    We will car pool as much as possible to keep costs down, can anyone who can drive and take bikes and passengers please let us know.

    We plan on riding the following Red Graded Trail –

    Trail name: Gorlech
    Centre:Brechfa
    Distance:19km
    Climbing:1071m
    Time:1.5 – 3hrs

    Red Trail Grade (Difficult)

    Description

    Named after the river Gorlech, what this trail delivers in views and scenery it certainly backs up with terrain and excitement.
    Taking design and construction to new levels, the trail is a hard, fast, all weather surface which becomes more and more exciting as your skill level and speed progresses.
    Soon you’ll be railing the perfectly sculpted berms and huge switchbacks, jumping the step up jumps and tabletops and grinning all the way to the bottom of the exhilarating final descent.

    Calling a trail as a roller coaster ride is a knackered old cliché, but there’s no other way to describe the unique Gorlech ride. Every climb drops you into a madder, faster descent on the far side. The stone clad berms, kickers, tables and stump jumps just keep getting bigger and bigger every time in a mad mountain bike crescendo right up to the end. A truly unique skill and grin building experience!”

    More info to follow as the time gets closer, any questions please ask…. oh and here’s a short video to get you in the mood…

  • Orange & Trek DEMO DAY

    “The Guys and Girls at Black Canon Collective [THATS US!] have kindly allowed us to use their trails for the day and have marked out a DH course and XC route for all to use.

    All you need to do is bring along proof of identification and a credit card, we are running the event on a first come first serve basis, so the sooner you arrive the more bikes you can ride.

    Adam from Orange and Jez from Trek will be on hand to fit the bikes and ask questions, plus we will be serving hot food and drinks to keep you warm.”

  • Dig Day Tomorrow – Cancelled!

    THIS HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO FROZEN GROUND CONDITIONS

    THE DEMO DAY ON SUNDAY WILL STILL GO AHEAD.

  • The Dark Side

    Well if you think last weeks ride was cold, you should have come out for the 2nd freezing night ride of the winter. We’re always recruiting new riders who want to join the Tuesday night party, so com’on out, don’t let Mr Winter keep you in the house, we’ve even got lights you can use!

    Once we got going we soon forgot that it was cold as Mr Sheppard (a real person, unlike Mr Winter) led us around the nice dry hard packed trails.  It reminded us of the summer riding, well, except for the ice & snow. We headed over to the ‘Darkside’ to hit the recently found single tracks, did our couple of hours and headed back to the pub for a beverage of choice sat next to a nice warm fire. Perfect.