Riding down an abandoned MINE SHAFT !!

This is the coolest thing I’ve ever ridden on my bike! With @owilkins23 and guided by Bike Nomad on our @GoodyearBike trip. The Black Hole Trail is 10km of MTB trail all inside a mountain. There’s crazy steep technical sections, and super fun flowy parts too. This should 100% be on every mountain bikers bucket list. Anej from Bike Nomad was an incredible guide and I’ll be back to ride this again really soon – it’s AMAZING!!!!

Clever oh we’ve got a ride down this my this is the one and only underground Trail a whole way through a mountain and I’ve never done it before and this man here and this man here are about to take me on an adventure you’re in for a treat and we’re going in there

Follow me gots here you’re really locking the door yes all right we’re in we are in no whistling remember get the tires clean Ollie what are we doing well this is sort of the trail head we’ve we’ve actually ridden 2 and 1/2k in and we’re

Here right now at the top of the trail that Anna built with dynamite with dynamite of course and how long is the Trail Annie all together 2 and a half k and 140 height met downhill then we still have 5 km flat out so we’re going through a mountain exactly 10K all

Together oh my goodness let’s go See my oh excellent boys yeah wait for Nick yeah buddy awesome that’s an awesome section and these are the arrows we have to follow cuz this me there what there’s a thousand different routes through you said thousand different kilometers yeah thousands of kilometers so these are

What are getting us out other than this man of course so while you were building the trail you were just finding stuff like this the whole time yeah look at that and so you see here you can see that when we say our mountains are drilled through like swiss cheese we are not

Lying yeah why is this so because L was not in columns but lat was in ws and that the miners did need to throw bow up the whole Mountain they were simply following the lead WS where it was and following it and therefore uh the rest stayed untacked it’s incredible it’s

Just like swiss cheese in there it is just like swiss cheese and I love swiss cheese you do in your burger this place is Bonkers time for some more riding Ollie time for some more riding this place makes me feel whole yeah that’s good you like that one yeah

That one you are a bit of a chamber yeah I’m digging for more sort of pans here yeah that’s not bad yeah are you ready oh let me Zing woo that’s my favorite bit that’s my favorite bit that’s brilliant and it just carries on yeah here is now

The section and we go right left and then on a we’ve got some tight sections here zigzag can’t believe you built this all we build lone tracks with a rake and our shoes you build tracks with dynamite wow ol are you hot or cold cuz I’m absolutely smelting that is good

That’s really good um I stall might drop in in front of you have you got any alen Keys uh no I think my boat’s loose I’m going to check if it’s Stelling [Laughter] tight nice Epic over the bridge Ollie have you got something in your eye no why you look like you’re

Winching no that’s get it wiing what sort of Music are you into Ollie rock rock yeah good work don’t mind heavy me either are we stopping here yeah I feel like I’ve been [Laughter] shafted it’s just one of the gnarlier sections H it looks it’s so steep it’s really

Steep you think you have to go down here on the side yeah and then here around to keep the speed down yeah as slow as you can so we’re of the steepest second most technical sections an says but it’s very Steep and the shoot continues the whole

Way down here doesn’t it Ollie yeah it’s is pretty gnarly I’ll be honest it like a runaway train yeah it’s the one bit that you can’t follow anyone in because you can’t turn around and stuff okay yeah nice nice so you can’t see how steep it is at all can you

How you going Nick I was waiting from the [Applause] sh I’m with a backpack on so impressive water a boy our turn Ollie let’s go ready everyone on Route yes go boy that’s fantastic oh awesome job yeah holy what have we just been told we’re floating on a island of

Rock a 3D platform of Rock with tunnels going every single Direction underneath us and so there’s air underneath us and above us and we have to bike yeah what a mad Place how do you know where you going oh I love that dirt like deep

Sand nice oh W and this is the technical bit this is the CRA the crack I’m not going to ride it okay but it’s up to you what you want so let’s have a look this one looks gnarly it’s just head isn’t it the problem is once you’re there where all

Is there’s no way back you have to drop in when you’re here and if you want to ride it I want you to come down and check it out okay not just from there you know that because the hardest part is here this is really steep it just a bit that

Matters the Rope strong yeah over the drop it should be at least I’m relying on it at all times man that is step and the problem is there’s no run out so there’s no run out you’re just straight and what’s down here at the bottom you have uh compression it

Flattens up and it’s right right corner you need to do okay twice right maybe you go and check it out as well because you don’t know it and if you ride it I you do it all the way do you know it Ollie uh yeah I’ll probably look at it anyway better to

Check it out you know this is a big shoot you know on the video how easy it look and get it you’re like and you know how I’m ping this section the bottom section the frame cracker oh no not great cheers please tell us why you know

What happened but the speed here is going to be a lot and it’s a tight corner with no head room and you have to turn right again are we going to ride it yeah you have following me yeah I’ll follow you this would be a big enough shoot out in the

Woods when youve just got to worry about grip and not hitting your head and not hitting your hands and not not knowing where you’re going I know e we’ll just take it easy I think the good thing is the combination of dry Stone and good

Your tires going to be able to get rid of a load of speed speed is not what you want is it my man let’s go so this is the TR this is the most technical part of the black ho Trail I’m a bit nervous I’ll be honest this is the closest thing

To Rampage you ever do underground I think you can’t say that anywhere else in the world it’s got Kong isn’t it are you ready guys okay I’m following you ollie right nice one dog real slow real slow real slow yeah on all right too close oh your head gets so close that was

LLY Nar than you thought yeah how close is your head into the middle section oh my goodness she go up and see him yeah yeah buddy well on dog that was sick I was going as slow as I could cuz I just thought yeah but it was still fast yeah

Yeah there’s a lot of grip yeah yeah yes there is a lot of grip keep dead ones for future Generations Crystal Limestone it’s beautiful you’d go mad down here wouldn’t you until your light ran out not good when when your light R out I think you probably go a bit more

Mad well look up a it’s just amazing but this is the problem you see something cool you go over there I can’t remember which direction we came 1994 newspaper they found when they opened this pit up look at this JN is lead here what this whole mine is

About so heavy the one piece that was forgotten so precious what’s this Ollie this is and you can leave the Bo and check it out there you go leave the Box check it out up he made the he actually turned and continued riding I’m not entirely sure so someone bunny hopped onto the

Ladder and then down no no here down oh next to it got you to it yeah what’s the run out like come and check there’s no run out it’s like vertical I mean we’ve got to look on it hav’t we oh no I’m up for riding down that yeah

Yeah I thought you were talking about going down the ladder I thought that’s mental vertical come come and check it out down clever ol we’ve got a ride down this a bit how do you fit a human in there there’s a bit of run out two light length yeah what’s the consequence and

And do I think we’re on o yeah just this rope is right like a neck height so we can do something with it and also be careful because this it’s really low really low oh the actual rock yes that’s what you forget about isn’t it whoa

Well done Ollie my back your head was 5 mm from the rock yeah well done mate that’s sketchy well done mate gets really nerve-wracking once you sit up here hey guys get low get low wo did you did that well good you went close to the um I think you actually

Touched the rail I’m well happy with that yeah Wicked that was really good sick an a thank you for letting let’s try that that was really cool that was proper scary the the back on get the Rope back on yeah yeah back down coming yeah all right more more more

Holy sick oh good Nick yeah boy all good Nick yeah boy we’re dropping yeah boy have fun that’s the best bit by m that bit’s amazing yes the H that bit’s Sensational guys do you want to see what we just wrote down yeah let’s go look want to write something don’t never

Look it up first yeah so so why that bit was that was my favorite bit I think there was actual BMS wasn’t there like we concreted the BMS in you did all that with concrete yeah so good here we are hold Go amazing thank you again so new

This is the light at the end of the tunnel oh we made it all alive sick we’re alive thank you well done Nick ol that was such a sick experience done a lot of cool tracks in my life and been to a lot of cool places but I could

Never say that I’ve done that before and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to say I’ve done that anywhere else that is the only one on the planet right it’s pretty unique isn’t it and it’s not even just made up into a trail they have built an entire Trail in that mountain

Through the mountain and it’s has been a pleasure and an honor to be able to ride it thank you welcome should we do it again yeah God yeah