Reviews for Freeride Park - Glentress

Summary:
Worth half a day

Review:
There are loads of routes here to try and you will want to ride each many many times to master you skills and to prove you are a MTB hero! Logs to ride, berms to get cranked over on, jumps to fly over and drop offs to really test your bottle.
Highly recommended but when I visited the big wooden arch thingamajig was taped off and looked like it had been that way for a while.
This place could form part of a visit but there is so much great riding at Glentress and Innerleithen this place would be a bonus level for me rather than the purpose of the visit

Summary:
nothing short of epic

Review:
best trail ive ever ridden cant say a bad word about it so well mantained. hub in forset and cafe are good. the only thing i would improve is maybe a 4x track but ther is enough to keep you occupied for hours and u just wanna go back and back

Summary:
For something Leagal it's awsome

Review:
Most trailcenters and things you go to have some sort of freeride area. These are normally rubish. The jumps are either tiny, have a landing far to close so you have to go slow or overshoot, have uphill jumps, are built on a hill so where it is so windy you can't do anythig or, more likly and are half way round an xc trail.

At glentress you can park next to it, it's in sheltered forest location and has jumps and drops for all. There are 3 main tracks going from top to bottom, with different features and eatch TTF having a beginer, moderate and advanced options.

As with most good bike riders I had no trouble doing anything, as it is mostly tabletop based and almost everything was rollable. Infact it all felt realy easy. Dispite this it was still fun and I think it would have taken a couple of weeks before I got board with it.

The only downsides are. You have to pay for the carpark next to the freeride area but you can just park at the bottom and ride up the incredably easy xc uphill. Although the jumps and drops are big for forestry they are just not as big as people tend to build themselves. But mainly, groups of people who come for the day tend to fill the place up. They all gather around basic stuff trying to get the hole group to do it. This is fine because they all get out your way quick enough but it does feel like waiting in line for the swings. Also it's a little anoying when you pushing up back past them and they start asking you in utter amazement how you just did a drop a full 6" higher than the one they can do.

Still if you don't go at peak times it's great and right next to some of the best xc trails in the uk and not to far from Innerleithen

Summary:
Brilliant

Review:
The freeride Park has got it all. Jumps, berms, drop offs, a bit of low shore. You can session whatever you like.

The only very slight downside is that the 'big' wall ride that was opened with lots of fanfare in May (ish) '09 has been closed off. Insurance issues apparently. Still a 10 though.

Summary:
super fun

Review:
i went with my brother and we absolutely loved it we arent really that good we just sort of do small jumps and no tricks but here we were clearing the jumps and tail wipping Xups and bar spins so if you want to improve your skills this is definitely the place we absolutely loved it!!!!!!