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Yeah it's fantastic fun and amazing to have right behind the house so can go out for an evening ride if I fancy. I'm not alleviating your pain much sorry! Family member works in the workshop there too which means cheap parts and labour....
Yeah that makes sense, it's a stopgap bike till I can get something better but interested to see what I could do with it. Any chance to tinker with a bike!
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Right behind the house? No thats not helping :-) There is loads of good singletrack around there and the gravel in the forest goes for miles is superb as well.
I did do a cheeky 100 miler over to and round the glentrool loop whist up there. Needed some headspace for some reason or other and didnt see a soul all day. Even saw a golden eagle ridiculously close. Rode round a corner and it was just sat on a tree stump 30 feet away!
Such a nice area!
velosaurus
Love Kirroughtree. Ride it 3-4 times a year at least. Black Crags is one of the best descents in the country! Only just come home south after 10 weeks looking after my Mum who lives south of Stranraer. Really hurt not being able/appropriate to ride there.
If you are getting the Trek for free, you could just spend enough to keep it maintained, ride it and that might give you the best idea of what you want to to do to it or whether you want to change it. One thing I would do from the get-go is set the tyres up tubeless. Makes a big improvement to how the bike will ride as well as mean less punctures. Plenty of youtube videos on how to do it and make a Soda-bottle ghetto inflator.