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Yeah, there’s a few opportunities to get wheels off the ground down there although some of them look a bit intimidating. Definitely a more technical track than it appears in the video 👍

Hi, I would and think they are great, it's just that I am enjoying the bikes I have at the moment. I did borrow an eBike for a day and made a video about it, in which I discussed my thoughts aboiut it (and eBikes): ruclips.net/video/MHihaExd95A/видео.html

You really should mate, don’t know anyone who has been who doesn’t love it. Great to hear you are able to get out again 👍

@Stopadoodledoo cheers buddy 😊

Yeah, the struggle is real but forcing yourself out is definitely the medicine. Been quite a mild autumn too, which helps 👍

@Stopadoodledoo and dry.....really dry. I like this autumn 🍁👍

We will get something sorted for my week off as well 👍🏻

Yeah, we really are lucky with so much riding and so much variety over here, nowt to complain about really (although nice weather and dry trails would be nice 😃). Best holiday ever mate, less than four months to the next one though 😃👍

I personally think this place is very hardtail friendly (rarely go there with my Alpine) although others may disagree 😀

Really is mate, it’s one of the places I plan on taking you when you make it down 👍

It’s the long dusty descents I miss; not dusty (far from it) but I am going to head up the Lakes and do a big ride soon, some hefty descents up there. P7 is a 27.5 mate, partly because I had some decent wheels on the other hardtail that I wanted to swap over for the mediocre ones that the S models come with (and did swap, first day)

@ I need to do some lake’s stuff, I feel like I’m missing out🤔. Glad you’ve kept the 27.5 flag flying, I built up a chromag rootdown hardtail frame that is decked out with 27.5 2.6 rubber..I love it, and also built a stage Evo short travel 29er, but I’m only one ride in on that

Funnily enough, I usually tend to ride more in winter, partly because there’s less distractions from family requirements and partly because I always end up with loads of holidays left that need to be used up. Night riding is ace fun, I should do it more really

@Stopadoodledoo just to wet your appetite ruclips.net/video/KyWnlsjahzE/видео.htmlsi=dBjxF6a3abH7CnSv

Thanks mate. “Swindon” is my go to place for solo waffling on videos now; used to just do them round Chester but Chester is a bit rubbish for riding whereas this place is fantastic 👍

@@Stopadoodledoo 😂😂😂 solo waffling… that’s brilliant.🤩

Yeah, so bloody ace aren’t they. Bracken has died back now so you can actually see where you’re going too 😀

Swindon always looks beautiful; the woods behind Nationwide is an AONB 😂

Cheers mate. It's always a bit difficult at this time of year as dry summer trails give way to muddy ones, and too easy to sack it off. I didn't get chance to ride at the weekend because my daughter had other plans 😃

Hell yeah mate, it was ridiculously hot out there (not TOO hot). I'll keep an eye out for your videos mate. You not hanging around with Eddie & co any more?

They really are mate, especially returning from scorching hot weather and incredible dry trails to mud and rain, but I really do enjoy the riding over here. Alpine will be sorted in no time 👍

Thanks mate, think I was having a good day (can’t even remember crashing on it 😀). Delamere has some fun stuff tucked away, I should probably go there more often but the draw of stuff in North Wales is too great 👍

Hi mate, it’s very close to One Giant Leap (DH tracks in Llangollen)

@@Stopadoodledoo nice thank you for letting me know I'll be going exploring now :)

Thanks mate, Wakey Wakey is a very special trail, much more technical in reality than it looks in videos too, which is probably why the rest of the group took the easier route down (Ruben told me he HAD to do the other one to guide the rest down, but was disappointed 🤣). The trails from the top down to Bubion were just amazing too, endless singletrack that dropped 1000 metres. What’s not to love?

None finer, mate, best biking holiday company out there

Thanks Michael, although I do have a niggling suspicion you are being sarcastic 😂

Really was mate, climb at the start nearly did me in but do glad I kept going. Shame Andy’s broken fingers made him have to give up at Bubion but I guess a 1000 metre descent before breakfast is enough 🤣

I was knackered mate, if we had been there any longer I might have actually taken a day off (although probably not, it’s just too tempting 😀). Glad you enjoyed the videos mate, they haven’t done well but I knew they wouldn’t; the trip really was about riding and being on holiday with mates rather than making videos, didn’t even film on the ‘day off’ and as expected, rode the trails way better that day 🤣

@Stopadoodledoo can't imagine you taking a sabbatical with all that riding at your fingertips 🤣🤣

@ Christian didn’t ride on the ‘day off’ but that was because of his bottom misbehaving (and, as it turns out, Covid). Andy probably wished he hadn’t because it was on the ‘day off’ that he broke his fingers, on Wakey Wakey

@Stopadoodledoo that looks a proper techy trail that does!

@ really is mate, starts off steep then mellows out before just being ridiculously rocky. So good, so hard to do cleanly

I was knackered mate, seventh day on the trot, we had done a big ride with a fair bit of climbing the previous day and this one started with a hefty one too. Plus, by the time we got to the ridgeline down to the beach, my brake pads in the rear were shot, leading to the lever pulling back to the bar on a couple of occasions; nerve racking to say the least (especially given how quick you picked up speed and how loose the trails were). I’m glad the videos show how amazing it is out there; I really do prefer it to the Alps.

@Stopadoodledoo I thought I could hear metal grinding .. ..😬

Thanks mate. Funnily enough, Ruben did say that if we want vegetables at Christmas, then they are a necessity. Christian asked if they were snow twice 🤣. To be slightly fair to him, he did have Covid/squirry bum so probably wasn’t thinking straight. He’ll be glad to know that it did actually snow in Bubion yesterday 😳

Really is mate, so different to home and so beautiful!

Thanks mate. Hard one to edit this one, as I had so much footage and had to cut so much out that I didn't really want to. I don't often keep much footage but I have stored most from this trip, to watch back myself!

@ At least your uploading it. We were out there in June. Got 3 full SD cards full of epic footage. Just can’t be arsed with the uploading.

@ yeah, it can be a daunting task, especially when there’s so much you want to include but know it’s not really practical. It felt brutal editing mine down, especially when the end result gives the impression that the descents are a couple of minutes long whereas (as you will know), they are ten minutes plus and fantastic from top to bottom

Thanks mate. Although the trails later on weren't the best of the trip, I think this is my favourite video of the trip, if that makes sense.

Thanks mate, it really was epic. To be honest, I was knackered by this point of the trip and finishing at the cafe would have been easy to do but I really wanted to make it to the beach so carried on and struggled through the fatigue. So glad I did though!

Love the outro! I'll get that ride done next time we go!

Best holiday ever mate, everything was just ace (apart from your squirty bottom of course 😂). Yeah, first climb was tough, especially given what we did the day before - felt like it went on forever. I don't think you would have enjoyed that part - I didn't - but the descent to breakfast more than made up for it, real shame you never got to ride those trails as they were just fantastic (well, you did ride some of them but you know what I mean). Deffo up for next year, we'd be silly not to 😂

Funnily enough, I've done that one now, so I'd rather do the one we chatted about the other day (although that would mean you doing For Sixers Only again 😂)

@@Stopadoodledoo I would do for sixers again happily, know what to expect now, and for how long 🤣 Plus it means we do Tinder, Bryan Adams and Maple Syrup again which I would never miss out on!

@@ElectricMountainBiker funny how For Sixers Only was quite polarising; I’ll give you that it was brutal but for me, that’s one of the elements that made it so amazing. We NEED to go back so that you can get footage from Bryan Adams and Maple Syrup, and to find my missing tyre knobble 🤣

Cheers mate; Southern Spain is just stunningly beautiful and the trails are fantastic (as is the food, atmosphere, everything). A very special day this one, although I was ruined by the time we got to the sea 😃

Thanks Ant and yeah, it was a proper epic ride. Being honest, the first half was way better from the perspective of trails but just completing the full ride and ending up with our feet in the Med was just amazing.

Thanks mate and yeah, this was one hell of a last day; the trails we did to get to breakfast were just incredibly good; 1000 vertical metres of descending to start the day!! You will definitely experience it mate, and it's such a fantastic experience too 👍

Nice one mate, always up for hearing about and hopefully visiting new places. Was it uplifted?

@@Stopadoodledoo yep with a few pleasant shortish climbs

Thanks mate, it has been said before (although back then, it was that I was the sweary version of Guy - before I cut down on the swearing) 👍

Yeah, definitely had the same feel as Great Escape although a bit more involved and a lot longer 👍

By this point, sixth day of riding, I was lost on unimportant stuff like what day it was 🤣

@@Stopadoodledoo 🤣

@@shannonmtb really were mate, just outstanding 👍

Cheers mate, a tough but fantastic day this one 👍

They all were mate; all very different but oh so good. Thing with 48 Stitches is that it comes at the end of a long, hot ride so you aren't really on your game; a pretty damned technical trail at times too. Crazy thing about that spring/water fountain is that the water is naturally carbonated; blows your mind when you first drink it!!

@@Stopadoodledoo carbonated? That's a weird one 🤔

@@MTB_Trekker the big question is, when are you boys going to experience it for yourselves?

@@Stopadoodledoo who knows!!

@@MTB_Trekker make it so (and before you go full eBike 🤣). An experience and memories that’ll last a lifetime. Every element of the trip was fantastic, not just the riding

The previous day (well, two days before...) will be a hard one to beat mate, no matter where we go or what we do 😀. It's a shame you had your hand ouchie on this one as I reckon you would have loved it even more if you hadn't been in pain for a lot of it. I don't think I will ever forget that climb out of the oven/valley 😂

That says how bad it must have been as you've done some big climbs before ha

@@shannonmtb it was grim mate, not even a big climb but it must have been 35 degrees in that valley. Add to that thinking that you were getting close & finding that the trail dropped down again, was soul destroying 🤣

​@@Stopadoodledoo Drier than a nuns.....you know the rest 🤣

@@shannonmtb so dry, Christian’s poo went solid again

Hi mate. Flights aside (as the cost of those are dependant on when you go, etc), we paid €595 for 7 nights. For that you get: - Transfers to and from the airport (2 hours drive) - Accommodation in a lovely house/apartment with all amenities (incl. WiFi, kitchen, 2 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, verandah with the best views ever) - Uplifts in mini-buses with specifically made bike trailers - full professional guiding on the trails, including training and advice as and when required - As Christian found out, they'll even have a go at fixing your bike if it breaks! It's self catered but as mentioned above, there's decent kitchens in the accommodation and to be honest, the food in the bars and restaurants in Bubion is so damned good and so damned cheap compared to what you pay over here, our kitchen went untouched. Beer was about €4 a pint; we did go out for a few beers in the evenings but also stocked up on beer in the convenience store to keep in the fridge - cost pennies!

@@Stopadoodledoo cheers mate

You did well to get out but I bet you’re glad you did; the joy on your face at the bottom of Flowtastic says it all mate (although the joy was stolen later on in Satan’s oven 🤣). A bit disheartening knowing that few will watch and fewer still will go out there to experience the trails (and everything else) for themselves but it’s their loss. I have watched this one far too many times myself (in iMovie) because it just takes me back there for a short time, reminds me how damned amazing it all was 👍

@@Stopadoodledoo amazed I got round as well, there was a couple of points I just wanted to lay down and sleep, but it was too hot for even that 🤣 That's why your video helps remind me of just how good the trails were, and we even got the sparkling water fountain again 😁 Yeh agree about not many watching it, but hopefully when they do they realise just how amazing it is out there with the Switch Backs team! Every day is amazing, even when you feel ill, it is still worth it 😁

@@ElectricMountainBiker you still drank beer too, despite having a bottom full of fizzy gravy 🤣 Brave man

@@Stopadoodledoo well I had nothing else to lose, dignity had gone, I think I went on G&T, well more G, than T with their lack of measuring 🤣

@@ElectricMountainBiker beer up in the square in Capileira, then mega gins back in Bubion. Wasn’t that the night we were star gazing (looking at the Milky Way), when Tony had his biggest accident of the trip? 🤣

Trails are incredible mate. As for fun, it was, apart from the climb out of that valley towards the end; that was evil in the heat 🤣

Thanks mate, all three trails were so different on this day, only things in common was that they went downhill and were very long (7 minutes down Flowtastic without stopping). The climbs weren’t actually that bad, would have been way easier if it wasn’t so hot though 🤣

Thanks mate. The previous (filmed) day to this was probably my favourite of the trip but this one was incredible, if hard work (a lot of climbing on this day; didn’t mind it apart from in that valley near the end - must have been 35 degrees in there). You will be relieved to know that Christian didn’t poo his pants; turns out he had Covid so amazing he managed to get round at all really!!

@@Stopadoodledoo no worries mate . N poor lad well hope he's all good. N iv jst Got A Hero 10

@@DizRidesMtb nice one mate. Channel rebirth imminent?

@@Stopadoodledoo if I figure out how use it n that ye lol

@@DizRidesMtb easier than the old one when you get it set up mate 👍

You’re spot on, the camera really tames these trails compared to what you face in reality, such amazing trails though and we were lucky that it had chucked it down. We rode 911 three times over the holiday, this was the only time it was wet and was the best by far. Still my favourite trail ever!

It’s outstanding mate. If you love long, flowing singletrack trails with the occasional technical challenge thrown in, it’s perfect. Also helps that the Sierra Nevadas are breathtakingly beautiful 👍

I agree mate, every trail was just amazing, especially For Sixers Only; like a warm, dry, extended Lakes trail. As we said so many times on the trip, this riding is way more our cup of tea than Morzine 👍

Thanks mate, don't think we rode what you could call even a mediocre trail all week, did we? Still think you need to crash more so you learn how to do it without getting ouchies 😂. We need the equivalent of a foam pit for trails!