2025 UK National Champs Course Preview (Fort William, Scotland)

Here’s a nice warm up of fort William national champs track everyone seems to be lapping so I thought I’d film a little lap just incase your not lucky enough to be able to come ride today to try help out, good luck this weekend people!

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. Well, we’re going to do a course preview. It’s Friday today, but we’re allowed to ride the track, so I was feeling a little bit nostalgic and thought I might as well do one for you. My first run, so we’re going to take it easy. And I’ve just put new discs on, which means that I’m basically gonna have no brakes. So, I got to watch out for that. Like there, they’re just not working. But it’s national champs this weekend. It’s looking quite busy. Everyone seems to be riding today already. Whoa. And we’re on to the first boardwalk. We get a nice little break, adjust the helmet and whatnot, and then we go into the first gnarly quite rough rock garden. I’m hoping Whoa. But no punctures today cuz I could do with keeping my rim intact. I don’t know whether I go for a fully fully first lap, but as you can see, they’ve already taped the track. Whoa. Don’t take that line. So, you actually get a pretty clear idea of what it’s going to look like. Just not very fast. That was loose. All right. What’s the line from here? Oh. Oh. Tape across the track. Right. I’m so lost through these rocks. I have no clue where they go. I think you’re supposed to go through them probably. Oh, you’re good. I had to do a quick pit stop. So, not a full lap. Make sure that they was all good. They was all sorted, which I think they are now. So, back on we go. I don’t know what the tape’s saying here. Can you tuck down left and go down this right? Or it’s tape tight? I don’t know. I always struggle with that bit. Never know where to go. So, we’ll see that later on track. Oh. Oh, don’t take that line. That’s awful. Yeah. Don’t Don’t use this video for for line choices. Whoa. Cuz I got no clue where I’m going. I’m just holding on and hoping. That’s a big hole. Got that big end side. Right, here’s where you get to see where the tracks actually tape now because we are going into here by the looks of it, which I haven’t ridden for so long. Then I think we go back out here. You can obviously gap over that, which I didn’t do. And then back into here. This inside here is open outside, inside high and low there. Don’t know if that drop will be in or not. And then you’re into the uh the bottom section part of the track with like a big pool like that. And this nice and fast bit which is already starting to get pretty blown out. And obviously classic wall ride gap over there into this flat bit which I’m not going to pedal because I’m lazy. and you’re down into the motorway. So once you’re through the rocks, that’s most of it done really. Scrub jumps. See if we can get any ste going a little bit. I whip all the same way. Little bit of an opposite step down and then you got this down which you can gap and then a little finish gap. Quite a headwind. Anyway, even with a little stop that is a lap. Hopefully I can find some signal to upload it. And the stop made it even easier for me. So happy days.