Gaz, Lucy & I arranged to go visit
Drumclog today, it's just south of Glasgow, off the A71 & a pay & play type place that is on a farm, there is the motocross track & the enduro course, which is where we went to check out...
£15 per person for the day was the fee, parking is in a field near the entrance & you just blat off into the nearby hills to get muddy!
There are loads of steep climbs/descents, lots of river crossings & I suspect as things get wetter, some really deep soft mud... sweaty & swearing sessions go with that of course!!
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| Some local quad bikers turned up... |
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| Parking at Drumclog |
Lucy had just bought a KTM 250 EXC-F, since she passed her test last week, this has been the focus of each day, shopping for a new toy!! She settled on this one from
B+B Motorcycles in Lincoln, a place that is run by a really nice guy & a good team of guys, really a pleasure to deal with. They have virtually no knowledge of off road bikes so as the bike had had a recent service by KTM they just changed the oil & gave it a once over.
Within a few hours of riding, Lucy is in love with this bike, it's a huge step up from her Honda XR125 & so she has a fairly steep learning curve to learn how to ride it to both it & her potentials!!
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| Toys out to play... |
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| A very proud member of the Orange Owners club!! |
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| Cool KTM Chick!! |
Anyhoo, back to Drumclog... we had an interesting morning just mooching around figuring the place out, I'm into water & river crossings, Gaz hates them, Lucy is still in the indifferent club as there is too much else to learn at the moment, so as we rode around I naturally headed straight through anything that had water in it, Gaz followed his trials background & would stop, get off his bike, look at it from a few angles then ride through it, the water is black though, so you can't see the rocks below the surface & in parts they are slippy, so it's a pick a line & get on with it type of thing.... needless to say we had some moments!!
Lucy dropped the KTM in almost all of them, Gaz dropped his XT in a deep one, flooded it with river water & broke the clutch lever bracket straight off, not seen one break there before!!
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| Wobble, wobble, wobble... phew... made it!! |
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| Mud, glorious mud!! |
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| Oops broke that then!! |
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| Hill climb fun,,, |
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| Looking over a part of Drumclog |
Great day out, well worth the drive, we'll be back as the big guy says!!
YouTube Vid Links:
River Crossings 1
River Crossing 2
Hill Climb 1
