It’s my local so we’re there a lot, they are putting in a great deal of work repairing worn out lips etc on jumps and generally improving the place. It’s not a bike park it’s a trail centre so it’s bound to be more mild than some other places. Climb only takes about 25 mins on a trail bike 🤷‍♂️ and a full blue about 40 on max attack. You need to use a bit more turbo mode 😉

Looks amazing. I'm heading there next Friday. Can't wait.

Great video man. Really informative and great footage 🤙 we’re hoping to come up here for some filming soon.

Great vid need to go there looks a good day out.

Great video and an intro to someone who hasn't ridden there......yet! Hopefully soon. Thanks just subbed.

Great vid degla is always a fast & fun ride

Nice vid & worth a watch as always, think it gives a pretty good idea of what someone should expect if they've not been there before. Regarding the view that it's not the 'gnarliest' place around, to be fair that has never really been Degla's thing. I agree that the Black runs are similar to other places Red's but what Degla is in my view is a fun blast which offers something for people at most skill levels. I live 15 minutes from the place & ride it all the time (well I will do now again it's finally re-open!) & usually have a decent ride there. That said I've come across a few people over the years dragging DH bikes around the place whinging about how crap it is... Also I did smile at the bit where you flew straight across the road crossing with the prominent stop signs on, don't think I've seen anyone even slow a bit down there.... ever....

Sick video bro I love it 😎

Love Degla, it’s my local ride, so wish the blacks were more severe tho, need some nice big drop ins and hardcore rock gardens for a bit of a thrill

As a local lad, I'm hoping to get back up there tomorrow. Iike the vid as well.

Hi mate , great video. I was the one on the red canyon at the jump line with my mate on the nukeproof and his dad on the Santa Cruz. Any chance u would be able to send over some of the drone footage of us . Love the video

Haven't been for a while but looks like it's alot better then what it was about 10 years ago, picking up a new bike this year so I'll be on the trails again

That is one nice bike mate

I found it really hard going, short decents, followed by short sharp climbs. Was knackered after 600m. I did Marin train and penmacno the following 2 days, and neither knackered me as much

Great Video. I think most jumps at Llandegla are poorly made and sometimes I feel cheated but you can see this in the Free-ride area. However all the other weaknesses are also its pros as its a very easy course and pretty much anyone can enjoy every trail. I just want some more technical stuff 😂

Nice vid. I was the one on the yellow nukeproof and my mate was on the red canyon. Any chance you could send any of them vids over please 👍👊

Rode the blue line the other eve on my electric mountain board. It's a shame I have to wait till 'after hours' to be allowed on the tracks though. Really limits the play time

I used to ride Llandegla before the trail centre was ever thought of! What Badger and Jimmy have developed over the last decade is absolutely awesome, this is the best trail centre in the uk!

I find Degla an odd one. It's definitely not for you if you go to Dyfi or BPW or Revs. Black runs are definitely very mild and the jumps aren't great BUT it's not really that kind of place. If you love XC mixed with a little adrenaline then it's for you. There's a lot of pedaling with short downhills but if you're local you'll get mire out of it but a one and done visit you may be disappointed.

I live a couple of miles away miles from the centre and I always like it, staff are all great, but one for you to try is coed y Brenin.

Im thinking of doing black route soon what would you say is the biggest drop off ?

There are two climbs. One is that fire road and then there is a second one in the woods next to it

I’m a big fan of xc, I am going to test my new scalpel there I have done some technical descends but I’m not very keen on drops, would you recommend testing the red trails?

19.23 on a analogue bike 😊

I like it there just a lot of jumps have very worn lips and the freeride line need a big overhaul it's not step enough for the jumps

Degla has some of the easiest ‘black’ sections I’ve ever ridden

You're right about the sizes of jumps - I was on one of the final stages and the final of the 4 jumps was smaller and I came off and dislocated my shoulder - lessons learnt, not all jumps get bigger as you speed up. Still, I'm looking forward to getting back.

Great vid again. What you think of the ebike? I've thinking of switching over but not sure..

Good for beginner riders. Other than that a decent cafe but not much else

great video mate I have a question tho do you think this trail is safe enough for an amateur without a proper mtb and without a helmet? Obviously by going relatively slow compared to you

Aaah yes, the 'deg...

Long,long overdue a remodel!

this guy is an og egg!!!!!!

It gets a lot of stick fron purists; but its perfect for an ebike, Ive been using one for three years and then it was just me and the odd other ebiker, now they are 90% of the bikes. I think they'll slowly make the trails for ebikes. How about trying the mountain path from the Ponderossa cafe, I tried it..made a vid...huuuuuge epic trail. By the way I love your camera angle it just seems better and I cant work out why

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Your making llandegla seem really bad and easy. It's an amazing trail centre at a good place to get to. If you want a challenge do the tough free ride zone and tough parts of the skill area. Llandegla blacks offer challanges maybe just not as hard as places like Cannock chase. It's brilliant

Quite enjoyed Degla for only doing it twice. Your criticisms are on point, I imagine it is better for a more novice level rider.

A lot of the trails have been worked on and they are better

I live only 2 miles away so I go every weekend

Think it gets a bad rep for the climbs but it's great for folk that are relativity new to riding and are looking for something different to cannock .. It's as fun as you make it

I'm sorry 20 minutes to do that first climb I'm either fit and I don't realise or that ebike isn't that good because I do it in that time

Let me get one thing straight, so far I'm 3 minutes into the video and want to point something out. You said after the initial climb there's only a few short climbs, that's wrong and so wrong. Unless you fell asleep and carried round on a stretcher you would be aware of the mammoth last climb of around 3/4 the way through until the bitter end. Bitter end is an understatement and no wonder there's so many e-bikes there.

That man riding without an helmet while escorting his son down a black trail must be one of the all time stupid things I’ve ever seen done at any Trail Centre.

Going for the first time at the end of the month… looking forward to it

I live only 15 minutes away and used to go there a fair bit when I first moved to the area. However, I was always disappointed with it. Is previously lived near Nant y Arian really enjoyed their tails. My main gripes were that everything seemed poorly maintained: trails were really rough with pretty bad holes, puddles and cambers, and that was especially true on the blue and reds. I also found that the red and blue were extremely rough for the majority of it and riding on a hardtail wasn't much fun. Weirdly, the black was easier because it was much smoother. Many of the 'downhill' sections were pretty uninspiring with few rollers or kickers, and the few little jumps there were were weirdly spaced out or placed so often didn't work. Finally, the climb/reward ratio was very poor. I didn't mind the initial big climb, though it was annoying not to have a smaller loop available, but there are (were) many rubbish climbs that would lead to nothing: You'd spend 5 minutes climbing just to roll down a boring track to the bottom of another similar climb. I haven't been for a few years now due to covid/work/kids, but I'm hoping the work they've done recently will have improved things a fair bit.

clandegla?

No way it takes 1 hour to climb the big hill on a analog bike I was there today and it took 20 minutes

🤣🤣 a 40min to an hour climb

Went today and it was bloody awful. We did the complete blue line because there was a low skilled lad with us and the complete thing was a waste of time and not worth the over an hour it took to get to the top. There wasn’t enough down time to make up for all the climbing. The stone they use for the trail is massive so it wants to knock your teeth out on a hard tail. Once at the bottom we packed up and went home feeling it wasn’t worth the climb back up. What ever you do, do not do blue. Stay with at least the red.

Not a fan of Degla, Bit of a 1 trick pony.. Jump, berm,singletrack, hill, repeat.. You would think they would mix it up a lot and build features that are in the freeride line or the skills park on the main trails.. Then it would be a sick place to ride..Atleast at Cannock theres stile cop to play about on.