Jumping Sketchy Gaps On [SECRET] MTB Trails At Bike Park Wales!

Bike Park Wales, 46 trails, uplift-assisted and an abundance of trails. Like I said, 46 of them. Take a look at all of these, all color-coded, but amongst this maze of trails, there are some hidden gems or trails that have not been ridden as much as you think, or you've never heard of them. This one over here, this one over here, kind of lost. Let's go find them. First one we're going to do is the HDS, which is the hard shoulder. You've got to get into it by using the A470, which is a brilliant trail, and everyone kind of sticks to those trails there. You've got Wibbly Wobbly, Roots Maneuver, Terry's Belly, to name just a few that people stick to. Let's go find the ones that are secret or hidden. Now to get to the hard shoulder, you've got to go into A470, and then you'll see on the right, it'll peel off, but I'll show you when I get there. Nice. Yeah. Little history, right, about the A470. It's not history, it's a bit of knowledge, really, because it's a main road that goes right through Wales, and it's called the A470. This is pretty much a motorway section or a highway section. This is the hard shoulder. You get a main road. There's a bit of a road on the side. It's called the hard shoulder. You stop on it if you have something wrong with your car. Anyway, this is no ordinary hard shoulder, man. These have got some big jumps in it. This has just been revamped. It's been resurfaced, cut, because it's been overgrown for years. I've probably only ridden this trail once since it opened, and that was probably when it did open. Since then, it's just been neglected, but now it's been reopened, and hardly anyone rides it because it's so fixated on the A470 to get to the bottom, to get to the top, to do it again. You should do this if your jumping skills are up to hand, because this is a black run, so it's not for the faint-hearted. As you can see, a new lease of life being resurrected from the undergrowth of Bike Park Wales. This is the penultimate feature. It's a beautiful hip into this buttery berm that goes right into the last feature, which ends up back onto the A470, so you're off the hard shoulder, back onto the motorway or the highway. It's only 200 meters long, but it's absolutely fun, and it's for people that are comfortable with jumping a bigger jump than the A470. Anyway, there's some more, but this is tame compared to the ones we're going to find. Ready? Back onto the A470. Whoa, big jump. The Martian, and Pro Line, again, just to make sure that you get it in your head that this is a Pro Line. It's not for the very faint-hearted. This has been built by Bike Park's very own, Ricky, the Martian, Martin, who's been perfecting his trail skills, building trail skills, for many, many years. As you can see, there's not much footfall going on here. It's all grass. Look, even the trail through there is grass. I'm a bit nervous. Actually, I'm nervous, because I walked down a little bit, and there's some questionable rock drops. I think I'm going to use all 190, 180 travel on this bike, and I'll give it a run, see what it's all about. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Big tractor up there. We've got this hell of a thing. What is that? That's just got disaster kicking all over it. You come off this rock. You tap, you tap. It's like a lily pad, but the lily pad's not even a bike length. I don't want to do that. I don't feel comfortable doing that. So I'm going to go around it, and then try and keep my speed for this crazy gap onto slabs. All right. Try again. Whoa! Holy sh... Dude, I don't know how I didn't, I... Oh my gosh, now the adrenaline's kicking in. My heart's pumping like mad. So I thought, yeah, where you are, I'll go up high, and when I come up high, I'm going to go across these roots, but my front wheel hit this one, look, there. It slid, and I was like, I was committed to this line right here. Committed, and it slid. My front wheel went on there, and slid like this all the way down the rock, and I thought I was a goner. I thought I was going to land in a tumble. Yeah, I can see why this trail doesn't get ridden, Leo. It's actually quite very technical, and when it's a bit wet, like it's just been raining, these roots are not grippy, Leo. They're not grippy, Leo. Should we go move on to another one, because the next one's actually, well, it's big jumps, and hopefully the wind's not there. It's called Trail X. You can see where everyone rides. They use their finger to go, yeah, we'll go here, we'll go here, we'll go here, but we've just done A470 onto the hard shoulder, back onto A470, onto the fire road, up to the Martian, down on the Martian, and onto this blue trail to finish, and then, obviously, insufficient funds, back to the lift, back up to the top. Now, this next one is another purple one right here, and it's called Join the Dots, but I think before we go Join the Dots, we don't want to go to this next trail, because this next trail, which is, it's here. It's called TX, Trail X, and it's another purple one, and it's off into the dragon, so the end of the dragon starts just here, so you can go all the way through, and then you hit this one. This one is massive. Pro Trail X, pro line. It's purple. It's beyond black, and you just go purple haze, man. Purple. Huge wall drop into that. I didn't expect all that. Came up really quick. Trail X, flat out full gas, and it is the question, is that trail for you? Definitely walk before you leap. Check before you leap. Do whatever. Make sure you have the confidence, and don't just throw yourself into that one, because that one is flat out fast, big gaps. Now, we're at the bottom. We're going to head back to the uplift, and we're going to join the dots, and what I mean is we're going to join all of these trails together, the ones that are hardly being used, or never been heard of. We're going to go ride, join the dots trail. Roots Maneuver, 50 Shades of Black. We go down here, and then it peels off on the right. We're going to go find it. I didn't even know this trail existed, so I'm going to go find it, but Roots Maneuver, really good trail. Oh my, what is that? What is this? I might have to do that again. This thing's, what is this? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Look at the state of that. It's a big rock takeoff. I was not expecting that. Gobsmacked. Yes. We didn't expect, look. That's the way to explain it. Look at it. What is it? It's big ass rock, perfectly mounted here for a takeoff, and you're coming off that flat drop up there bomb off this rock here, but you have to go quite fast. And I was thinking, what's this? And then there's a gap. Oh wow, they changed the angle of the rock. Look at that. Oh, now that is trail building to its finest, isn't it? Bike Park Wales, hidden gem. Join the dots. Man, this is cool. Right, I think I'm going to go all the way to the top. I'm going to do a full run of this thing, and a gap this, and I really want to nose press that drop over there. So, Leo, work your magic on this. Maybe a wide on here, like that. Yep. Gosh, that's, and then that's it. 50 shades of black. Back on it. That there, whoo! I over jumped that big rock thing by miles. Hidden trails of bike parks. Maybe Dovey has some. Maybe Revolution Bike Park has some in the UK. And if I venture further afield, I'll be asking you questions. Is there any secret trails that we should go and ride? Anyway, hopefully you enjoyed this video. If you come to Bike Park Wales, come and look at these trails, especially this one. This one's pretty cool. This one and the Martian, whoo! And if you're not into the big jumps, it's worthwhile taking a look how big that gap is on Trail X. Anyway, give us a thumbs up like. I'll see you next time. It's time for a cup of tea. Oh, man, all this adrenaline's getting me. Too much, whoo! See ya!