Mountain Bike Road Trip Through Ireland

Last year I went on a road trip through Ireland. Driving from Scotland we docked in to Belfast and made our way down South sampling some of the best riding the country had to offer as well as exploring the cities of Belfast and Dublin. This is my guide to a 5 day trip to get a taste of Ireland…

The locations we visited:
00:58 Cave Hill
02:20 Glencullen Adventure Park
05:01 Ballinastoe
08:30 Three Rock
10:11 Rostrevor

If you’ve any questions about my road trip then leave them in the comments section down below and I’ll do my best to answer them!

Scotty

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Thanks to Tourism Ireland for supporting this trip.

Check out our SCOTT Chasing Trail episode from our trip here:

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– I’m riding a size large, I’m 189cm (a 6 foot 2).
– The cable integration is easy to install and work on (check out the bike build)
– The bike has a 150mm of travel and I’ve spec’d my build with a 160mm fork and grip 2 damper

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Produced by Scotty Laughland
Filmed by Rob Grew
Photography by Finlay Anderson
Edited by Scotty Laughland
Graphics by Scott Muirhead

Checked into the ferry and we’re off to [Applause] Arland cheese and onion chocolate can you see where we’re riding about to dark into Belfast arrived at Belfast drove for 10 minutes and now we’re at Cave Hill to check out the trails come up to a trail called middle it’s got views overlooking Belfast it’s got some features I can already see it looks super fun we were told by the lady in

The ferry The Cave Hill is renowned for being slippy so we’re going to find out what it’s like it has been raining and the ground is wet but excited to check this trail out first tires on the ground in Belfast A it’s half 6 in the morning we are leaving Belfast heading south and on route to Glen cullin Adventure Park Irish Breakfast bath coffee and fire what more could you want we’re here at Glen Cullen Adventure Park sh Starts Here Tak you up to the top and you can run these Trails back

And forth we’ve signed in put the genius on the uplift we’ve managed to squeeze in a few cheeky laps and I’m going to show you some of my favorites we’re at the top of lo niss as her name’s Jess there going to be some lone but I know there’s a lot of rocks

And there’s some big roots in there let’s drop In There’s something here for everyone from Blue all the way to Black let’s hit up Beline moved on to black plus Trail called hard shoulder this one’s got mandatory gaps and it’s heaps are fun Been running this waterproof jacket all day and kind of thought I was a regret until now when the rain showers come in the Hills come down and I’m nice and warm coozy and dry oh yeah it the Scot storm look at the waterproof just beating up Perfect really fun day here at Glen Colin Adventure Park it’s not often you get to ride a flowline like that with big jumps and it was nice to give the genius a little bit of air time the other Trails were sick we had some lers

We had big views of Dublin and also some rain showers rolling in and Out today we’re in Balo Progressive Irish Trail Center there blue red and black trails I’m excited to check Out CL up to the highest point in Bal St there’s two black trails and we’re going to drop into junkers a fun jump Trail mean look at that view all the way down to the ocean so sick Jumps Trail networks ever expanding this one’s a bit of a lummer mixed with some Man-made [Applause] Hey [Applause] Really fun day of riding here in Bal still there’s such a wide range of trails blue red and blacks that new one that we rode probably had some of the best turns in Ireland so much support and the conditions have been absolutely perfect it’s due to change tomorrow and

Apparently there’s some really heavy Rain rainy day Activities N got the experience of the famous Irish Mark trails at Bal we’re running pretty much almost all Time we’re making our way back up north and today we’re riding at three Rock just outside Dublin today we’re riding ticknock Mountain bik Trails on three Rock Mountain up above Dublin the sun has just risen and it’s a beautiful morning excited to check these Out Got a little from the black Trail After Burner we’ve climbed back up to the Red Trail Skyline got Scenic views all over Dublin let’s drop In really fun morning exploring the tikn mountain bike trails now it’s time to go and see the city sites a visit to the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin concludes her trip in the South it’s time to head to her final stop in the North Ross Trevor last night we stayed at the Ross Trevor Mountain Lodge today we’re going to go and check out the trails beautiful area and surrounding let’s see what they’re Like we’ve been given a little bit of local knowledge to come up and ride a track called bins which we want to drop into and see it’s quite Shelly it’s loose and it’s in a beautiful Forest we’ve climbed up from riding the natural trails to now Machine belt Trail this one is called Mega Mission it’s got jump spms and it’s meant to be really Flowy From the natural trails to Mega mission to on the pulse there’s such a range of trails here in Ross Trevor and that actually concludes our time here in Ireland it’s been absolutely all time from Trail centers to bike parks to natural stuff what an absolute variety the hospitality has also been incredible

We’ve met some lovely locals who have given us recommendations Riders who have shown us where we should go and that leaves me with if you’ve enjoyed this give it a thumb up like if you’ve got comments questions about coming to ride in Ireland leave them down below if you

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