Shropshire MTB – Oswestry ‘Worth The Effort?’

I knew there was some riding here and decided on the morning to pay a visit so with no research or trail knowledge, how did I get on?

Pretty sure I found everything here and rode some sections more than once. There appears only to be a couple of main descents that are maintained, very nice and the ladder bridge with a rung missing was a bit too serious for my liking riding on my own

If I was a bit nearer, this would be a good place for 2-3 hours riding but with a 3 hour round trip in the car may not be quite as appealing 🤔

morning guys uh trip down south um today or south from my house so uh I didn’t know exactly where I was going uh was heading for land go but changed my mind part way through so I’ve ended up at Oswry um so checking out this trail here uh took me a while to navigate to the car park and whatnot having not been before or done much research on it i have seen videos of it in the uh past probably a year ago so nothing recent uh so I don’t know what I’m going to find and uh yeah uh seems as though there’s some quite steep trails here so um we’ll give them a go see what we get uh more dry conditions so not complaining about that uh sun’s out a little bit lot bit of cloud in the sky but not too bad uh I just stopped here on my way to what I think of the way to the trails but uh not a bad view in this opening um between the trees so yeah we’ll uh give it a whirl and see you in a bit let’s go find some trails cheers so just navigating me way to the top of the woods and this looks like the start of a trail we’ll give it a whirl i like doing things behind us seems a bit damp i thought they’d have some rain here nice feature that don’t want to get full of don’t know if that’s it or not could be no keeps going down and quite steep definitely put some rain down holy hell think I’ll take that a bit more speed it’s been a lesson for a while this is That could be it that was quite good that uh wouldn’t call it a floor trail it was quite a bit of tech on it steep stuff here and there uh a few narrow gaps and things um so yeah fairly impressed first run down steep enough keeps you on your toes um yeah see what comes next we’ll climb up now i think this will be the other was super steep and this is kind of super flat tonight should get steeper i hope so that’s a bit more interesting all right nice little section it’s a bit more red than this promising not bad at all so far bit of exposure on the ground here nice so that nice go level keep going lot more rocks on it than I thought there might be keep going that looks like a lot but that was a nice trail actually might do that again later on got no signal now so just chancing it down here see what happens back to this could have been this way i say it it’s all right i have to go back and do it again though i don’t know what I was jumping into not bad how about a little fine say no i have no signal so Tighten the trees out that’s why you should have gloves on not bad that would have up my arm but gloves took most of the impact there’s a bike actually just grazing my arm a bit there but short sleeves what do you expect suppose my G mount’s not snapped it just came off the G got that thing what the hell maybe that’s what did it i don’t know wonder if that locked up in my wheel or something straight through me bloody smokes anyway I’m all right after that so decent find this a lot of on it could have got that really right here comes another one lot of leaves oh wheel went then so there’s a lot of leaves on that pieces oh you got you want it not sure what this is but it’s got a jump right at the start of it uh it’s a bit of a gap but doesn’t seem too bad bit scary for me like cuz I don’t do these things but might just manage it see what happens come on do it again that I did all right but probably not enough speed i seem to uh hit this route here so you need to try and clear that right let’s try it with a touch more speed that time but did land a bit front end i could probably do that it’s bigger than that last one following a local guy right now down there all right rest of it is down there all right okay uh I’ve been down there did I don’t know i knew it if I didn’t I’ll give it another go or if I did I’ll give it another go looks familiar this shoot bit more speed on that not sure if I did or not maybe I didn’t maybe there’s another shoot that looks like this i’ve been down here but I’m not pushing back up now put nice sections on there so I’ve just had my lunch uh bit of a late one really about on 2:00 now I reckon um so uh there won’t really any obvious place to have me lunch i’ve been just going up and down in the woods and all that i thought this is a high point just about to drop into the next trail so I’ll do it here so here I am um pretty chill now to be fair um I think I’ve done most of it there’s a trail near the car um that I know I’ve not done that I’m going to do before I go back but a lot of the stuff here I’ve done there’s a there’s a I’ve seen two going down this way so might give me another two to do i have done at least one more than once um so yeah I’ll just keep going for another couple of hours probably might get some repeaters in uh not realizing like I did previously yeah we’re at the top um so we’ll drop into this no idea what goes on here i think it crosses a fire road very shortly but I don’t know if it’s straight across so I’ve got to pick a different trail but uh anyway I’ll have a do there is one last thing uh just the cleanliness of the bike really this bike’s done like about five rides now without it being washed and you can see there’s pretty much nothing but dust on it there’s a bit of few specks of dirt on the D tube there but generally speaking um it’s in uh pretty clean condition so can’t grumble at that just need to keep making sure you leave your suspension and your chain and then off you go again don’t know where I’m going not the access here it’s a bit of a gap jump h shouldn’t be doable it’s an unusual feature that’s up onto a rock i did it kind of whacked its heels but uh might do it again all right here we go again another take two bit more speed required no need to lift the front end a bit when I take off all right take three lift your front end a bit i probably been there now i don’t know hell I bring the trail back up like that jeez put it in the wrong gear all right see what we get here this is called Pinball Ferret I believe if we can find it bit dark in here for the moment it’s the thing about riding stuff blind you just don’t know what’s on the other side of it that’ll be more of a roll than a a jump let’s see it’s on the pedal spot no idea what this is decent this trap’s obviously maintain going for the surfer option i would have stopped to wait up for too long on it it’s back on that one from this morning the trouble think that was called dragons back I think you can correct me if I’m wrong very nice huh very nice indeed to finish the day 25 to 4 I think we’ll call it