[roughriderz]

Forestry Commission Scotland and their partners would like to invite you to Ae All-Abilities Day to showcase and demonstrate the facilities, equipment and services that can be used by disabled riders on the mountain bike trails at 7stanes venue in Ae Forest. The event is from 10am-5pm on Saturday 12 Sept...
Equipment will include Fieldmasters provided by Rugged Hire, handcycles provided by Da Vinci Mobility, Bomas provided by Molten Rock, demonstrations and fun runs by the Rough Riderz club.
Family and friends can also join in the fun with special 1/2 price mountain bike hire provided by Ae Bike Shop. There will also be an Uplift service available from Uplift Scotland on the day...
Theres an assortment of vehicles for all abilities - so why not come along and have a go yourself? See the attached flyer for full info... or email amanda.burgess@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Look forward to seeing you in Scotland!
Downhill Phil
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Hey, that looks interesting. And if my memory still works, Ae forest is only about an hour and a half away (marshalled there a few times on special stage rallies)

And I hopefully get my new (ish) car this weekend. Could be a nice wee road trip to christen it.

Although bloody hell, those bikes look dangerous..........I also remember walking out of a stage one time via the downhill section, with a huge drop off about the height of me. (6 feet ish) Can they do jumps that big?

[twisted_ophelia]

That sounds amazing! If I lived in the UK, I would be there but I'm all the way out in Ontario, Canada. I wish I could come!

[ClaraTaylor]

roughriderz, on Aug 26 2009, 08:51 PM, said:

Forestry Commission Scotland and their partners would like to invite you to Ae All-Abilities Day to showcase and demonstrate the facilities, equipment and services that can be used by disabled riders on the mountain bike trails at 7stanes venue in Ae Forest. The event is from 10am-5pm on Saturday 12 Sept...
Equipment will include Fieldmasters provided by Rugged Hire, handcycles provided by Da Vinci Mobility, Bomas provided by Molten Rock, demonstrations and fun runs by the Rough Riderz club.
Family and friends can also join in the fun with special 1/2 price mountain bike hire provided by Ae Bike Shop. There will also be an Uplift service available from Uplift Scotland on the day...
Theres an assortment of vehicles for all abilities - so why not come along and have a go yourself? See the attached flyer for full info... or email amanda.burgess@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Look forward to seeing you in Scotland!
Downhill Phil
Ae_All_A...y_Invite.pdf

Looks amazing. Hope it goes really well! (Alas I'm trapped in a course that weekend )

[roughriderz]

msg, on Aug 26 2009, 10:16 PM, said:

Hey, that looks interesting. And if my memory still works, Ae forest is only about an hour and a half away (marshalled there a few times on special stage rallies)

And I hopefully get my new (ish) car this weekend. Could be a nice wee road trip to christen it.

Although bloody hell, those bikes look dangerous..........I also remember walking out of a stage one time via the downhill section, with a huge drop off about the height of me. (6 feet ish) Can they do jumps that big?

Yeh get yourself there mate... its just north of Dumfries past a village called Johnstonebridge.

And yeh the bikes can be dangerous if you dont ride them with a bit of respect... I discovered that to my cost when I broke my collarbone after riding it for about 3 weeks!

Come along and watch, Im riding faster and better again now and I love The Shredder. Dave gets some big air off some of the jumps too. Im not as confident to do some of the really big jumps yet... and neither of us can do that one you talked about cos its just too big. I assume you mean the 'gap jump' across the fire road? Thats a massive jump and needs absolute full commiment or it could be a very messy landing! Lol