Abriachan Bike Trails

I've not had that much luck the last couple of times I've been out on my bike, my chain snapped 200 metres into the ride last time then someone tried to steal my bike from under my nose but Rich was keen to test out his new toy. We headed over to the new (newish? new to me anyway) trails over at Abriachan where we hoped to have a quick blast before the wives required us back.

We had good fun playing on the see-saw next to the carpark but unfortunately luck was not on my side, within 5 minutes my chain snapped again, we spent 2o minutes getting it back on whilst receiving our first midge bites of the season. Joy.

We headed up the green run which soon changes in to a nice blue run and after swooping around some burns it heads up to the top of the hill, and we managed to enjoy a wee red section before my chain finally gave up again. Rather than spend another 20 minutes getting eaten and being made even later for our rendezvous I opted to free wheel down the trails as Rich told me it was all downhill. Mostly downhill would have been a more accurate description! It's funny, Rich didn't seem keen on letting me give his bike a test run after mine was chainless.


Rich had a play on the mini obstacle course at the end of the trails before we headed off in our different directions. Not a bad place, the trails are stacked so you warm up on the easier stuff as you get towards the harder reds which, by the way, seem quite hard for reds especially when freewheeling! Will be back again.

--Matt