Post by kirky72 on Aug 25, 2015 19:54:37 GMT
Visited Cyb this morning with the wife and kids.
They went off to do a smooth fire road 10k with my wife on foot, youngest with stabilisers and my 8 year old on her little hardtail while I tackled the beast.
Did the beast but definitely went wrong after the cut through towards Gomez and after doing a few of the best long single track sections I found my way back onto big dug and hard to work my way back.
Overall a fun route but the fire road climbing is a bit excessive.
For back to the visiror centre and called the wife to find they didn't have a clue where they were but didn't seem close to home. So I set off on the awt twr (the original trail that goes the overside of the centre and up the opposite valley). Expecting I could do the 14 miles in an hour to an hour an half so even if the Mrs came back soon she could have some lunch while I finished.
However I didn't realise that after a short but fun section down from the centre to the road the next 3.5 to 4 miles was all climbing then after just one section from the summit it was more fire road climbing. Then a few great rocky aections snap crackle and pop were followed by a shed more climbing. Finally there was another run of 2 3 good ones such as flight path and man trap before a Coast back to the centre.
Got back there and the wife was waiting with a welcoming scowl. A bit of food and drink in the cafe calmed it to a frown and then I undid the good work when I passed my car riding up the car park and took Chloe for a few laps around the foundry skills loops. Well she enjoyed it anyway.
Summary would be Cyb is worth a visit of you are in the area and good to take the family but not worth a long trip as the good stuff just iant quite worth the leg work. Of course I'm sure a bit of local knowledge would vastly improve this rating.
I took a bit of footage until my battery ran flat before the best stuff. I lost a 20 note from my pocket and had to cut short our food and drink order but overall a much better day then we would have had visiting yet another indoor play area or petting farm.
They went off to do a smooth fire road 10k with my wife on foot, youngest with stabilisers and my 8 year old on her little hardtail while I tackled the beast.
Did the beast but definitely went wrong after the cut through towards Gomez and after doing a few of the best long single track sections I found my way back onto big dug and hard to work my way back.
Overall a fun route but the fire road climbing is a bit excessive.
For back to the visiror centre and called the wife to find they didn't have a clue where they were but didn't seem close to home. So I set off on the awt twr (the original trail that goes the overside of the centre and up the opposite valley). Expecting I could do the 14 miles in an hour to an hour an half so even if the Mrs came back soon she could have some lunch while I finished.
However I didn't realise that after a short but fun section down from the centre to the road the next 3.5 to 4 miles was all climbing then after just one section from the summit it was more fire road climbing. Then a few great rocky aections snap crackle and pop were followed by a shed more climbing. Finally there was another run of 2 3 good ones such as flight path and man trap before a Coast back to the centre.
Got back there and the wife was waiting with a welcoming scowl. A bit of food and drink in the cafe calmed it to a frown and then I undid the good work when I passed my car riding up the car park and took Chloe for a few laps around the foundry skills loops. Well she enjoyed it anyway.
Summary would be Cyb is worth a visit of you are in the area and good to take the family but not worth a long trip as the good stuff just iant quite worth the leg work. Of course I'm sure a bit of local knowledge would vastly improve this rating.
I took a bit of footage until my battery ran flat before the best stuff. I lost a 20 note from my pocket and had to cut short our food and drink order but overall a much better day then we would have had visiting yet another indoor play area or petting farm.
cyb is good as part of a weekend trip or staying over trip for such as us travelling 3 hours+ to get there. a few of us did a 65k event there a couple of years ago. my god i was absolutely f***** when i finished. we actually rode past the car park to do the last 14 mile loop over the road,it was so tempting to finish it then, but convinced meself i'd be a complete lightweight if i did. so i carried on and as you say just seamt to be climbing and climbing with no real reward for it. then to top it all had to ride another few km after the finish line back to the cars. its good though done correctly.year after we did the slightly shorter version which was still tough.dont know about you but i still prefer natural riding but trail centres make a nice change now and then.