Nicely trail ridden. Trail riding isn't a race and you got round safely, at decent speed and with no falls. Although enduro bikes are allowed on the TRF trail it is still a trail, not an enduro practice track!
@@rainbow-walker I was quite challenging for people new to off road on big heavy bikes.. The bog (which this guy skipped, probably wisely!) was very hard, and I actually changed the sign just before to to indicate it was "V Hard" on Saturday, as so many bikes were getting stuck. Was fine-ish on Thursday but became a muddy (fun) hell hole by Friday lunch time. It took some skills to get through most of the bog on bikes that are not enduro bikes, and often with hybrid tyres. The exit of the water splash (after the downhill past the "bog of doom") on this video where RainbowWalker went right took out a lot of the bigger bikes, was slippery as ice. Fair play to everyone that did the TRF course. It's supposed to be more challenging than the main loop so that the Enduro riders have somewhere to play away from the big trail, and also offers a more robust challenge to the ADV riders. The video does not capture the steepness of some of the climbs, nor the near vertical drops.
I enjoyed both trails, did the TRF trail Saturday, got through the boggy bit just about but didnt do it the second time (too chicken), fair play to some of the big bike riders they can handle them, at my level I can make any trail difficult by upping my speed.... even managed to get around the corner where Chris Birch binned his KTM... he might have been going a little bit faster.. and that big dip/climb on the Bridgestone trail was totally different on Saturday... massive rut in it, nearly pooped myself.. I hate ruts 😅
Thank you for recording it on a tiger 900!
Nicely trail ridden. Trail riding isn't a race and you got round safely, at decent speed and with no falls. Although enduro bikes are allowed on the TRF trail it is still a trail, not an enduro practice track!
I didnt do the trails but it didnt look that intense like people were saying it was
I think ABR encourages people that havent been off-road before in a safe environment, so for first timers I'm sure it was intense.
@@rainbow-walker I was quite challenging for people new to off road on big heavy bikes.. The bog (which this guy skipped, probably wisely!) was very hard, and I actually changed the sign just before to to indicate it was "V Hard" on Saturday, as so many bikes were getting stuck. Was fine-ish on Thursday but became a muddy (fun) hell hole by Friday lunch time. It took some skills to get through most of the bog on bikes that are not enduro bikes, and often with hybrid tyres.
The exit of the water splash (after the downhill past the "bog of doom") on this video where RainbowWalker went right took out a lot of the bigger bikes, was slippery as ice.
Fair play to everyone that did the TRF course. It's supposed to be more challenging than the main loop so that the Enduro riders have somewhere to play away from the big trail, and also offers a more robust challenge to the ADV riders.
The video does not capture the steepness of some of the climbs, nor the near vertical drops.
I enjoyed both trails, did the TRF trail Saturday, got through the boggy bit just about but didnt do it the second time (too chicken), fair play to some of the big bike riders they can handle them, at my level I can make any trail difficult by upping my speed.... even managed to get around the corner where Chris Birch binned his KTM... he might have been going a little bit faster.. and that big dip/climb on the Bridgestone trail was totally different on Saturday... massive rut in it, nearly pooped myself.. I hate ruts 😅