I have been very lucky to have visited Whistler and if has to be said that if the vision for Tarland is to replicate Whistler's flow and jump lines, the builders are doing a great job. Whilst Tarland seems to have fewer 'big' features, maybe these will follow. THAT SAID; where are Tarland's tree's? In a country renowned for its ancient, commercial and 're-wilded' forests , where have all the trees gone? These trails remind me of the new(ish) A14 in Cambridgeshire where huge amounts of money was spent on infrastructure, which has led to a widely reported eco-disaster. There are signs of trees (in your video) in both upper & lower Tarland, but so many of the trails you have so kindly shared with us, look so barren......and........ wind swept. Trees will help both. Maybe this will also follow later. I hope so. Aberdeen (and the Westminster Government) made billions from oil, so maybe someone somewhere should look into plough some of this back into greening 'the shire' and Tarland. It would also be good to if Tarland could get money/permission to add a chair lift and other commercial infrastructure. Then Scotland really could have a McWhistler. Thanks for your videos. My comments have no reflection on you or the trail heads who made this place. It has more to do with politics, landownership, ambition, health and safety, common sense and lobby groups. I ride more in N Wales, which I know you know well, where I am always bumping into tress that were there last week! They really do grow that fast!!! Best Wishes. Colin Dyas
Scotland needs more bike parks/trail centres like this! I live in Dumfries & Galloway, and yes we have quite a few trail centres down this way, but everything is full of really rough terrain, shingles, tree roots and rocks (Can't help the natural terrain i guess). I would love somewhere like this to open down this way. Something smooth and flowy that's quite forgiving, especially on a hard tail!.
It’s a great example of bike park flow. I’m hoping the new project at Glentress will deliver some flow and jumps too! A lot of the trail centres haven’t been updated in years so it’s nice to see more like this opening and as you say hopefully more will come further south too!
I really enjoyed the video. It brought back many memories as I grew up in Tarland and although I now live near Glasgow I still visit regularly to visit childhood friends. I have yet to ride these trails but they are on my to do list. Looking forward to a trip North with free time to experience this. I liked and subscribed.
Hi again I just noticed when I click to get all notifications it says I get them but bell colour is still white instead of black so not sure if I get your notifications. Might be worth asking TH-cam about as it could be costing you views I’ll go check if you have any vids I ain’t watched
Thanks for that. Had a check on other channels we follow and seems the bell is white now. They made some changes a short while ago to add options for personalised notifications and all notifications so may be that! Will keep an eye on it thanks 🙌
Haha! We had to go to bed early the next night after the ouzo the night before so missed the football 😂 we will be in the Barbados taverna tonight if you are there :)
I commented before the fly box came out as that is my other passion so tight lines when you get a chance and I hope there is a fishing vlog or 6 coming this way.
@@LauraJaneWeeTamMTB was an epic week altogether. Did heartbreak ridge on the Monday, tues and we’d a livet doing the natural blacks and orange lines, Tarland Thursday. Then did the glen clocks/ loch muick decent on Friday. Your definitely right about some great riding in the area. With the perfect weather all week we had too, we were spoilt. Hoping it’s as good when I’m back up in October. Great channel by the way, love your vids.
@@LauraJaneWeeTamMTB it was as we did heartbreak ridge and the glen clova/loch muick ride too, and the weather was perfect every day. Can’t wait to be back up in October.
Ah amazing that’s some week! Love all these places and yet to do the muick descent. Only done lochnagar which was super. Hopefully this year! Thank you appreciate that, we love making the vids!
Aw was great to chat to you! You were right - it was amazing! Just looking at your campers page - may be in touch this year at some point to enquire about a couple of things we’re thinking of doing on ours!
@Laura Jane & Wee Tam MTB good chatting to you to. Yeah, no problem, give me a shout when you know what you's are wanting to do to the van. We have a nice LWB Sprinter to convert soon with a lithium ebike charging station, bigger shower block and bed than what's in my Boxer.
Hiya. Am itching to get there on friday myself...how are you finding the Insta360 camera Laura? I'm still on the fence between that and the GoPro - the Insta looks a bit obstrusive on the chin mount, how have you found it? Been keen for you to drop your thoughts/experience in to one of your next vids. This new place raises the bar now for Scottish MTB trail Centres, it's a long awaited addition to the repetoire. I think there is something in works for Dunoon as well....
Ah enjoy if you do! Cracking place. Guaranteed fun! They’ve really done a fantastic job. Yeah there’s been a project underway there. Keen to see what comes of it! Also the new revamped Glentress. Lots of exciting stuff happening! The Insta 360 is great but the model I went for (x3) is mounted vertically and therefore is obtrusive. Also as it’s a 360 camera, the footage needs to be edited and angle picked in the insta app first before downloading. I do love the footage though. Personally for normal landscape footage and vlogs my go to will still be the Go Pro for ease of use and being smaller and lighter. There are other models of insta though which are more go pro shaped!
Visiting Ballater for a couple of days end of May, looking forward to riding up to Tarland so many great trails, thanks for sharing enjoyed this one 😁🤙
Hi I’d say absolutely without a doubt Tarland. Blue Doon is quite pedally and lots of straights and flat corners whereas tarland has a big variety of real flow trails that are feel good and full of berms. A lot more fun and exciting in my opinion :)
Another fantastic video, great review of the trails. I just hope they have a maintenance budget to match the building cost, braking bumps would not be good. Thanks for filming, Andy
Great vlog! The trails look mint and appear to deliver maximum fun and enjoyment. All three of my favourite MTB channels have walked away from Tarland recommending it. Aberdeenshire is a wonderful part of the world, we were there in Towie last year (holiday with our special needs dog - she needs a quiet location). Next time I'm up there, the LaPierre is coming with me! Cheers guys!
Thanks! Would highly recommend it. I think we smiled the whole ride. All the trails were ridiculously fun. Aberdeenshire really is a gem of a place. Thanks for the comment! 😁
Awesome vid! So funny to see Laura over shooting the berm . Glad you guys had a hoot up there. Defo gonna be bringing some of the lads up on the next visit. Next time i see you guys, i should really remember to chin you for a selfie haha. (Beardy guy in the carpark with the yellow vitus)
Thanks! Hehe glad there were no rocks in the heather 😂. It’s a great place isn’t it. Would be fun to ride in a group. Haha no bother, anytime 😉 was good to chat to you!
Those DHaRCO tops look cool 👊 Definitely adding this place to the list for the next trip north of the border, hopefully by then Scolty will have recovered too. 🤘
Yeah Dharco have some really cool prints 👌. Love the range this year! Yep well worth a visit. Guaranteed fun! Yeah fingers crossed, it was a shame it got damaged so bad. Scolty was a pretty unique place!
Hi looks a awesome amazing place but is there somewhere to pitch up a tent ? As hoping to come to blue doon then thought pop to that one for maybe a few days thank you both amazing vids 🤘🏻🍺
Yeah it’s great, well worth a visit if you’re thinking about it. I think there are quite a few campsites nearby across ballater etc. the car park is a relatively normal hardstanding one for the trails 👍 enjoy if you go! It’s a pleasure 🙌
Oh nice! Beautiful part of Scotland and so good to have this trail centre now. They really have! I think it’s the same company doing the new Glentress build too so I’m quite excited to see what pops up there. Great to see so much development in Scotland!
Cool video as always. Place looks great I'm heading up in a couple.of weeks, would you say you can spend a whole day riding there? Thanks for any thoughts
Thanks! I’d say so yes. We spent about 3 hours ish but there were a few trails I would have done twice over - especially the blue jump line! So I’d say easily enough for a 5 hour ride or so if you do some twice. Think another new trail there has just opened yesterday too. Hope that helps!
looks a great place have to try that out as they are closing the jump run freestyle area at glentress,where can i get one of them mobile phone mounts for helmet ?
Can defo recommend it. Looking forward to the new glentress jumps when they’re in. Will be nice to have somewhere to work on jumping! We use go pro and standard mounts from a company called r3pro 👍
They’ve done great work. Nice to have some flow trails and opportunity to progress. Maybe one year something will come! I guess there’s not too many big hills there?
Ah that’s cool. Actually we noticed a place we sometimes ride called Les Hautes Rivières is very popular with Dutch riders and they said Belgium is great 😁
We are so lucky to have a place like this in Scotland ❤ Pleased you enjoyed it 🤙
Absolutely 👍 it’s exactly what we need for jump progression and a place for everyone to enjoy 😁
You ever done Speyside track? How does it compare ?
Nope can’t say we have sorry!
I have been very lucky to have visited Whistler and if has to be said that if the vision for Tarland is to replicate Whistler's flow and jump lines, the builders are doing a great job. Whilst Tarland seems to have fewer 'big' features, maybe these will follow. THAT SAID; where are Tarland's tree's? In a country renowned for its ancient, commercial and 're-wilded' forests , where have all the trees gone? These trails remind me of the new(ish) A14 in Cambridgeshire where huge amounts of money was spent on infrastructure, which has led to a widely reported eco-disaster. There are signs of trees (in your video) in both upper & lower Tarland, but so many of the trails you have so kindly shared with us, look so barren......and........ wind swept. Trees will help both. Maybe this will also follow later. I hope so. Aberdeen (and the Westminster Government) made billions from oil, so maybe someone somewhere should look into plough some of this back into greening 'the shire' and Tarland. It would also be good to if Tarland could get money/permission to add a chair lift and other commercial infrastructure. Then Scotland really could have a McWhistler. Thanks for your videos. My comments have no reflection on you or the trail heads who made this place. It has more to do with politics, landownership, ambition, health and safety, common sense and lobby groups. I ride more in N Wales, which I know you know well, where I am always bumping into tress that were there last week! They really do grow that fast!!! Best Wishes. Colin Dyas
Awesome! The feedback has been unreal! Give us a shout when you come back....we know you'll be back and we'll join you for a spin.
Glad you like the vid! The whole place is phenomenal. Not surprised how good the feedback is 😃. Great work by all. Sure that’d be great, will do!
Scotland needs more bike parks/trail centres like this!
I live in Dumfries & Galloway, and yes we have quite a few trail centres down this way, but everything is full of really rough terrain, shingles, tree roots and rocks (Can't help the natural terrain i guess). I would love somewhere like this to open down this way. Something smooth and flowy that's quite forgiving, especially on a hard tail!.
It’s a great example of bike park flow. I’m hoping the new project at Glentress will deliver some flow and jumps too! A lot of the trail centres haven’t been updated in years so it’s nice to see more like this opening and as you say hopefully more will come further south too!
Tams "Rrrrreally" punching haha
I really enjoyed the video. It brought back many memories as I grew up in Tarland and although I now live near Glasgow I still visit regularly to visit childhood friends. I have yet to ride these trails but they are on my to do list. Looking forward to a trip North with free time to experience this. I liked and subscribed.
Thanks glad you enjoyed it! Great to hear. The trails are amazing. Have fun when you do ride them! Thanks for subscribing 😁
Another great video! I am going to do this very soon! - what tyres are you running on the bikes please?
Thanks! In this we were running the Michelin wild enduros but now running the Michelin ms tyres. Great for grip in all conditions! Enjoy when you go!
Hi again I just noticed when I click to get all notifications it says I get them but bell colour is still white instead of black so not sure if I get your notifications. Might be worth asking TH-cam about as it could be costing you views I’ll go check if you have any vids I ain’t watched
Thanks for that. Had a check on other channels we follow and seems the bell is white now. They made some changes a short while ago to add options for personalised notifications and all notifications so may be that! Will keep an eye on it thanks 🙌
Very nice Road! Greats from Corfu my Friends🎉 (we have to drink too much Ouzo today) 🤣 see you tomorrow ✌️
Haha! We had to go to bed early the next night after the ouzo the night before so missed the football 😂 we will be in the Barbados taverna tonight if you are there :)
Tam "So many cases, So many loose spokes" moral of the story shuda went fishing Tam
It’s a sign 🤣
I commented before the fly box came out as that is my other passion so tight lines when you get a chance and I hope there is a fishing vlog or 6 coming this way.
Haha nice one! Hoping to get out again over the weekend for some salmon fishing. Fishing vlogs may be on soon!
Great trails, was up on Thursday, reckon I beat Tam on the case count!
Hahah hopefully you still have your spokes unlike tam 🤣 super place eh!
Who is this bloke ?
Was there on Thursday, epic trail centre. Was at glen livet for two days and all we was hearing was Tarland so had to head over.
The Grey Area at Glenlivet was my favourite section of trail on my Scotland trip last year 👊
Ah nice must be a great combo with Glenlivet! Some great places up this way 👌 and yeah agree @chimps4gimps - the natural ones at glenlivet are super!
@@LauraJaneWeeTamMTB was an epic week altogether. Did heartbreak ridge on the Monday, tues and we’d a livet doing the natural blacks and orange lines, Tarland Thursday. Then did the glen clocks/ loch muick decent on Friday. Your definitely right about some great riding in the area. With the perfect weather all week we had too, we were spoilt. Hoping it’s as good when I’m back up in October.
Great channel by the way, love your vids.
@@LauraJaneWeeTamMTB it was as we did heartbreak ridge and the glen clova/loch muick ride too, and the weather was perfect every day. Can’t wait to be back up in October.
Ah amazing that’s some week! Love all these places and yet to do the muick descent. Only done lochnagar which was super. Hopefully this year! Thank you appreciate that, we love making the vids!
I told you you'd both love it 😁 ( I'm Craig's mate btw)
Aw was great to chat to you! You were right - it was amazing! Just looking at your campers page - may be in touch this year at some point to enquire about a couple of things we’re thinking of doing on ours!
@Laura Jane & Wee Tam MTB good chatting to you to. Yeah, no problem, give me a shout when you know what you's are wanting to do to the van. We have a nice LWB Sprinter to convert soon with a lithium ebike charging station, bigger shower block and bed than what's in my Boxer.
That was quick on the edit. Blue jump line/ fools gold/Chris cross and Scalextric were my favs
Yeah got on it last night 😅. Was quite stoked to edit it! They were good ones! Loved the various Chris trails and some of high pressure berms 👌
Me and my lad are heading up for a couple of days this week. Can't wait.
Oh enjoy! Hope you get some good weather for it ☀️
@@LauraJaneWeeTamMTB Thursdays looking good and Friday not too bad at all! 5 hour drive each way not so good but it looks like it'll be worth it!
Great video as always. Those cameras are Long.
Thanks! Oh tell me about it 😂. Didn’t realise quite how much. Go pro will be the go to for vlogs with this on for the odd run!
@@LauraJaneWeeTamMTB I switched the GoPro for the action pro 3.. best decision ever. So versatile when it comes to mtb use.
Hiya. Am itching to get there on friday myself...how are you finding the Insta360 camera Laura? I'm still on the fence between that and the GoPro - the Insta looks a bit obstrusive on the chin mount, how have you found it? Been keen for you to drop your thoughts/experience in to one of your next vids.
This new place raises the bar now for Scottish MTB trail Centres, it's a long awaited addition to the repetoire. I think there is something in works for Dunoon as well....
Ah enjoy if you do! Cracking place. Guaranteed fun! They’ve really done a fantastic job. Yeah there’s been a project underway there. Keen to see what comes of it! Also the new revamped Glentress. Lots of exciting stuff happening!
The Insta 360 is great but the model I went for (x3) is mounted vertically and therefore is obtrusive. Also as it’s a 360 camera, the footage needs to be edited and angle picked in the insta app first before downloading. I do love the footage though. Personally for normal landscape footage and vlogs my go to will still be the Go Pro for ease of use and being smaller and lighter. There are other models of insta though which are more go pro shaped!
Visiting Ballater for a couple of days end of May, looking forward to riding up to Tarland so many great trails, thanks for sharing enjoyed this one 😁🤙
Enjoy! Great combo doing it with Ballater. So much good riding up there! It’s a pleasure, really enjoyed filming this one!
Hi , a three hour drive from edinburgh, blue doon or Tarland , which one would you do if you only had time for one of them ?
Hi I’d say absolutely without a doubt Tarland. Blue Doon is quite pedally and lots of straights and flat corners whereas tarland has a big variety of real flow trails that are feel good and full of berms. A lot more fun and exciting in my opinion :)
@@LauraJaneWeeTamMTB ok so tarland it will be , need to Angus my dog with me, just hope he doesn’t get in anyone’s way lol
Grammar check , need to take Angus with me
Pencilled in for the 🌞 summer 🚲 cycles
Perfect place for a summer roadtrip!
@@LauraJaneWeeTamMTB it looks abso mega can't W8 🚲😎🚲
Another fantastic video, great review of the trails. I just hope they have a maintenance budget to match the building cost, braking bumps would not be good. Thanks for filming, Andy
Thanks! I hope so too and believe they do. I think regular monitoring and upkeep is happening 👍
Great vlog!
The trails look mint and appear to deliver maximum fun and enjoyment.
All three of my favourite MTB channels have walked away from Tarland recommending it.
Aberdeenshire is a wonderful part of the world, we were there in Towie last year (holiday with our special needs dog - she needs a quiet location).
Next time I'm up there, the LaPierre is coming with me!
Cheers guys!
Thanks! Would highly recommend it. I think we smiled the whole ride. All the trails were ridiculously fun. Aberdeenshire really is a gem of a place. Thanks for the comment! 😁
Awesome vid! So funny to see Laura over shooting the berm . Glad you guys had a hoot up there. Defo gonna be bringing some of the lads up on the next visit. Next time i see you guys, i should really remember to chin you for a selfie haha. (Beardy guy in the carpark with the yellow vitus)
Thanks! Hehe glad there were no rocks in the heather 😂. It’s a great place isn’t it. Would be fun to ride in a group. Haha no bother, anytime 😉 was good to chat to you!
A really positive look at Spds. I use to ride them then went to flats after having a big crash which I didn’t get unclipped in time 😮
Yeah I’ve had a really good experience on them. Oh ouch, that’s fair! Can get in your head after a big crash and hard to get past it
Those DHaRCO tops look cool 👊
Definitely adding this place to the list for the next trip north of the border, hopefully by then Scolty will have recovered too. 🤘
Yeah Dharco have some really cool prints 👌. Love the range this year! Yep well worth a visit. Guaranteed fun! Yeah fingers crossed, it was a shame it got damaged so bad. Scolty was a pretty unique place!
Hi looks a awesome amazing place but is there somewhere to pitch up a tent ? As hoping to come to blue doon then thought pop to that one for maybe a few days thank you both amazing vids 🤘🏻🍺
Yeah it’s great, well worth a visit if you’re thinking about it. I think there are quite a few campsites nearby across ballater etc. the car park is a relatively normal hardstanding one for the trails 👍 enjoy if you go! It’s a pleasure 🙌
Looks excellent, added to my to do list for this years Scottish tour, big fan of Glenlivet so having tarland trails nearby is perfect.😎👍
Definitely one for the list 😁. If you enjoy glenlivet you’ll love this too! Great to have so much riding in that area!
Tam need a lawyer? Super job, best Tarland 2 coverage I've seen so far👌
Hahah definitely 🤣. Cheers that’s so nice to hear! Really enjoyed filming this one!
I grew up in Tarland, awesome wee village. The team involved in the trails have done an amazing job!
Oh nice! Beautiful part of Scotland and so good to have this trail centre now. They really have! I think it’s the same company doing the new Glentress build too so I’m quite excited to see what pops up there. Great to see so much development in Scotland!
It's so epic luv it tbh wish I lived in Scotland lol. Great vid guys was laughing all way through. Luv ya vlogs.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. There is lots of exciting bike stuff going on in Scotland just now. I’d say go live in Scotland but I am biased 🤪
@@LauraJaneWeeTamMTB wish I cud 😂 I will visit 1 day 🤗
Cool video as always. Place looks great I'm heading up in a couple.of weeks, would you say you can spend a whole day riding there? Thanks for any thoughts
Thanks! I’d say so yes. We spent about 3 hours ish but there were a few trails I would have done twice over - especially the blue jump line! So I’d say easily enough for a 5 hour ride or so if you do some twice. Think another new trail there has just opened yesterday too. Hope that helps!
Great thanks Laura very much appreciated. Enjoy this weekend
Brilliant vid! Thanks for sharing. Got to visit this place soon 👍
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Definitely one to ride at some point - amazing place!
Looks fantastic heading soon, diggin Tomas's shorts👊
You’ll love it. Really great trails. Cheers hehe bit of colour for summer 😉
looks a great place have to try that out as they are closing the jump run freestyle area at glentress,where can i get one of them mobile phone mounts for helmet ?
Can defo recommend it. Looking forward to the new glentress jumps when they’re in. Will be nice to have somewhere to work on jumping! We use go pro and standard mounts from a company called r3pro 👍
Yeah looking forward to new jump run to at glentress,and thank you for info on mount
Brilliant insite guys .can’t wait to head up that place
Thanks! You’ll love it when you do 🙌
Great channel ! If you ever come to Squamish let me know.
Thanks! Hopefully make it across there one day. You guys have amazing looking trails!
@@LauraJaneWeeTamMTB It’s MTB Heaven !!! Believe me when I say this !
I bet! 😃
Nice trails I like it that’s what we not have in the Dutch county.
They’ve done great work. Nice to have some flow trails and opportunity to progress. Maybe one year something will come! I guess there’s not too many big hills there?
Most of the trails are flat. But we have some little mountains with nice trails. . For the enduro trails we have to go to Belgium 🇧🇪 or to Germany 🇩🇪
Ah that’s cool. Actually we noticed a place we sometimes ride called Les Hautes Rivières is very popular with Dutch riders and they said Belgium is great 😁
Great ride!
Thanks! 🙌