Tree Lines : Fat Bike Trials

Four years ago I came to these woods at Cathkin Braes just south of Glasgow and scouted lines for an edit I wanted to make. Sadly due to very limited conditions needed to have dry enough logs and my vlog schedule I put the project onto the back burner. Then the fat bike came along and I realised the extra grip would be a huge advantage on some of these slippery lines and the extra width could make riding skinnies a little out I was right! Don’t get me wrong though, these lines were TOUGH! I try to do minimal correction hops to be as smooth as possible but this can give the illusion that these lines were easy or not that big... check out my wobbly knees in a few clips to get a true indication of how I was feeling! In the end, after a 4 year wait it only took two days of riding to complete. These were lines I saw when I shut my eyes and every time I went to Cathkin and I never thought I would be eventually doing them on a fat bike! As mentioned in t