Скачать или смотреть Grenoside DH3 - Let's Talk About Line-Choice Ep 5

You might have seen my recent video about the MTB trails at Grenoside Woods, Sheffield where I went down DH3, which is graded Black, and I had never ridden before.

While I really like that type of rocky, rooty riding, the fact is that there are a lot of line choice options on practically every tricky section.

The thing is: You can't always spot them while riding the trail, especially when riding the trail for the first time, so it's time to talk about them!

Sessioning is a great answer to the problem, but that is just as difficult to do on busy weekend days, when there are lots of other riders about.

During that ride, I went back over the sections that I felt the least comfortable with on my rides down, and decided to analyse my line options and wherever possible (or I was comfortable with), give them a go myself.

Episode 5 is from the section just before dropping down into the lower woods (where that root almost caught me out).
This is where I went completely around, because I was worried about being in the fairly deep rut, and possibly getting unstable.
The line I took actually went across some potentially slippy roots, but I felt safe doing it as they were more or less at 90 deg angles to me.
It turns out that I'd have been perfectly fine going over the little jump or through the rut (in both cases).

By far the smoothest was over the top, which set me straight up into the next turn.


The Greno Woods trails have taken a bit of a beating in recent years, with very little maintenance being done on them, due to Covid.

There are a whole bunch of 'Make Greno Great Again' signs, put up by Ride Sheffield who are responsible for a lot of the awesome trails around here.
These are community funded, so if you ride and love these trails, please do consider contributing:

https://www.ridesheffield.org.uk/gren...

Parking is free, but can be incredibly busy as Wharncliffe and Greno are very popular with walkers, too:
4 Woodhead Rd, Wood Seats, Sheffield S35 8RS