Advanced MTB/ Enduro

downhill

• Launchpad
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• Designed and funded by the guys at Rough Riderz (with Help from Gloucestershire Environment Trust) Launchpad has become a firm favourite in the FOD.  The trail is specifically aimed at four wheeled gravity bikes – wide and smooth with increasing speed as you head down the hill – there is no need to pedal.  Passing a couple of 180 degree berms you’ll get some air over the jump section before swooping all the way to the bottom.  Excellent fun!

• Countdown
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• Countdown is the new top section for Launchpad and has been a labour of love for the DTV.  Designed as an introductory trail for four wheel gravity bikes (and two wheeled riders) the trail drops in just before the start mound.  Flowing across the forest you’ll pick up speed and carve turns all the way to the fire road (the left hand option for 2 wheels has a short, steep drop at the end.  Launchpad is directly opposite.

• GBU
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• The FOD’s first 3 spot strail.  Be prepared for big step downs and a final jumps line that will will have you shouting all the way down – carry as much speed as pose for the final gap jump and impress your mates! Easily accessed from the push-up trail the bottom section of GBU is properly popular for big tricks.

  Countless photos in all the magazines make the GBU drop one of the most recognised riding features anywhere in the UK.

• Mr Rooty
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• Mr Rooty sure lives up to the name. Joining from the fire road for a steep, off camber and (surprise, surprise) rooty section through the trees and a fast flowy airborne finish!

   

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YaDdwTijlU

• Cougar Route
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• The Cougar Root delivers the Forest’s fair share of loam, with long, drifty corners and roots galore, this one’s a real test of skill with a load of fun thrown in too. A real challenge in the wet!

• Endo
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• Endo has been completely rebuilt and now features a fast flowing jumps section through the bottom “bike park” area.  It darts down from the middle fire road level, through tight rooty switchbacks and into a fast open bottom section with a tabletop and a small stepdown drop followed by a massive gap jump over the fire road. Ideal to use as a variation to the bottom of corkscrew.

• Flatland
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• A separate top section, Flatland is ideal to lead into the bottom section of Sheepskull. Rooty corners darting past tree stumps lead into the Sheepskull root section and into a sharp drop onto the middle fire road.

• Corkscrew
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• Fast and fun. DTV have fashioned a new start section which accelerates through the trees before jumping a bomb hole, crossing a fire break and heading into a fast flowy section.  Several small drops send you out onto the fire road and shoot you into the fast rooty bottom section – with an option to take the high line onto Bottle Opener.

  Corkscrew now finishes at the junction with the push up track – you can head back up the hill, or choose to cruise down the bottom section of Launchpad.

   

• Sheepskull
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• A new top section starts opposite the start mound, crossing the top fire road before the start of Flatlands.  Super fast all the way. …through the top ‘bus stop’, jumping into and out of a bombhole, then the famous FOD Classic rooty section (hilarious in the wet) – try and stay on the high line – before dropping onto the middle fire road.  Flying on down from there, loads of challenging roots tempt you into braking, then anchors off into the final fast ‘motorway’ section.

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• Ski Run
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• The original downhill trail at the Forest of Dean and rideable in all weathers, the Ski Run drops in through big rocky and rooted sections with fade drops. Into a fast set of turns, a hip jump, the popular tabletop, berms and road gap.