This Scottish MTB destination has just about every type of trail you could imagine!

Welcome to a fantastic MTB adventure in an awesome Scottish MTB destination – The Tweed Valley.

In this video we tie two amazing MTB locations, Gypsy Glen and Cademuir, in a brilliant ebike adventure.

In this video I am joined by McTrail rider. We both had an awesome day riding in some seriously challenging conditions.

I hope you enjoy the video. Here are some chapters to help you navigate the video:

0:00 Intro
0:21 One of my favourite MTB destinations…
1:44 This climb is a beast!
3:30 Making the summit of Birk’s Cairn hill
4:29 Birk’s Cairn descent onto Gypsy Glen
7:54 Gypsy Glen descent
13:52 Kermit trail at Cademuir
16:53 This trail is sketchy!
19:02 This trail nearly took me out!
19:56 This drop is gnarly!
22:34 Jerry Can trail Cademuir
24:01 Penfold trail Cademuir
25:26 Outro

If you are new to my videos then expect to see high quality riding vlogs shot in the same style as McTrail Rider and BKXC. I try to travel to the best MTB locations in Scotland finding you the best mountain biking trails to ride, enjoy and explore.

The video was shot on a GoPro Hero 10 mounted on the chin of an Endura MT500 helmet using a R3Pro mount.

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It’s like a oh my God hey hello welcome back to the channel and uh fun ride today second time out on uh ebiking obviously you guys know I’m B new ebiking and still kind of exploring the potential but when I was actually going to purchase an ebike it was kind of this type of ride I

Had in mind so going to try and knit together a few of my kind of favorite natural rides around Peebles um looking at Gypsy Glenn then hopefully getting back down over towards Cade M so it should be really good and a sort of good test of what I’m hoping is the kind of

The sort of type of riding that brings ebikes alive so police stays well to to be joined by Andrew um he walked at me the other day and said you’re riding on Sunday on the E Bike and I very quickly said yes I am so I think we’re going

Have a good DayDay and and really stoked to be showing Andrew Gypsy Glenn have you ridden Gypsy Glenn no so Andrew hasn’t ridden this one so this is always one of those rides I like to share with people um I’ll feel bad if he hates it

But I’m I’m hoping he’s going to like it so yeah we we’ll we’ll just about head up monster climb behind us um and get into the main bit of the ride so so we’ll get cracking that was quite excited about doing this with some uh assistant um going to change your life

Yeah I think it’s going to open up some other opportunities yeah it is out of Eco I’ll go for a trail just now oh so yeah I’ve done this a few times on the normal bike and it can be done with my fitness but it is about 20 minutes of pure hell

So yes this is cheating a bit but it is what it is um yeah this is insane absolutely insane I mean folks I would say you know this is steep when you’re getting a bit out of breath going up on an E Yeah making good

Progress so we come up a bit higher come to I think a hill is called burk’s Ken I think and uh yeah wasn’t quite expecting the snow but the snow is very much here H could make The Descent a we bit tasty just in Andrew had realized how

Much higher this hill went than the the normal saddle where I cut across and we’re going to head all the way down that Ridge which is going to be real niceoo people often forget that the the L lands and the borders does actually have some sizable Hills in

It they’re they’re a bit flatter in nature or sorry a bit more rounded but still pack some fairly High ascending um so yeah don’t be fooled woo wild so no idea if you can hear me holy it’s proper wild up here that’s taking me a bit by surprise I’m probably a bit

Underprepared so yeah just just don’t be me should have brought a bit more in the bag so I’m not going to spend too much time up here but we got this like Cloud coming in there’s a bit ice in the air all the way down although we can see

Pebles now uh but this is proper look at that I mean that is uh 30 40 minutes out in the ebikes out of pee and you are in Wilderness wow I was just saying to Andrew I’m pretty anxious already cuz there was so many ruts under that snow

You want me to guine then oh you guinea pig it yeah I can’t I don’t mind Guinea piging the next bit cuz I know it like the back of hand but feel free to guinea pig this so if you watched my last video first ride KNE bike I said I’m going to

Take it easy and immediately crashed it so I am going to try and take it easy yeah there’s not much traction all wa it’s hard to look ahead oh yeah bike’s moving quite a lot I’m sticking to the kind of edge there just get a bit of purchase oh oh yeah moving w

W yeah she slick oh what do you think I think that’s the way so quiet under the yeah it’s kind of a bit a bit haunting actually yeah it’s very strange up here cuz it’s was blowing a gale there now and it’s gone super quiet across the

Snow apart from that bright night it was eting it was wasn’t it so I think we’re going to have to take it canny in this this is the if you come up here there’s a quad track but it’s not much fun the bike is literally a quad track this is

The old original but as I remember years back it was pretty Ry look it yeah so we’ll find out oh God W yeah just quite difficult to see where you’re trying to place the front oh oh back end wow if you can see that snow flipping over my head let’s getting thrown up

From the the back wheel going to remain loose in this rock cuz it grabs the side to the tire trying to steer by leaning oh this probably looks slow but I tell you that’s hard Andrew’s in his element boy wow that’s really challenging to ride you can’t relax

No I was saying there like it probably looks really straightforward on video but the concentration just steer by leaning the bike I was very aware of my pedals yeah that good really good you enjoy it yeah and and after this once we get up on that next Hill it’s just much sort of

Easier well actually there’s one more of these right we are now we’re at kayy hill now yes that’s Burks K kayy Hill um loving that that was so sketchy up there really interesting so it definitely changes now we got a bit more mland riding got a rainbow over there looks decidedly sunnier over

There I’ll I’ll take the lead in this one try and find his nice lines then pressure don’t want to take him down the the bad lines hey yeah how you doing you all right yeah good thanks right trying scope out the lines it’s can be quite hard to see

Them okay we’re doing all right frantic fast and frantic have to say I think the weight of the ebike actually helping on this oh sorry I saw that fuddle oh oh sorry I haven’t realized I haven’t done any commentary just so fast so fast really having to like just

Concentrate eyes are totally PE wo wo wo wo no way that got loose there yeah that was a little uh squeaky bum moment there oh yeah this this is a quite loose mud actually D take it easy this is a right sketchy Rocky but super fast you just have to be

Careful and then here with this mud it’s also not got Hunter attraction oh look at this pushing me around that way that’s mean you see it there though Trying just read ahead but I a say w it’s pretty sketchy W into that me GP moving around a lot on this stuff sorry about those little Yelp but it’s a weird feeling when the bike starts to slide away from underneath you cuz this sort of grassy mud

Is quite different from when you’re on the trails wow yeah that was was good that was sketch Central I’ve never had the back end go out so far and come back nice so in Cade now I’ll put a travel link down in the description we’ve got the uh we’ve got the Mist for

Us as well it’s looking cool it’s been super damp here though you can tell got the evaporation so yeah hoping to go and ride new tril Kermit just now so yeah second outing on the ebike um getting a little bit more used to using different modes for climbing and

Stuff I was in trail mode a lot last time and I almost felt it was a a bit too potent um and you can tune it but today I’ve been switching the modes a bit to try and make sure I do the old battery management um so I think we’re doing

Okay still got just over half battery remaining e bikes are a thing they’re quite incredible I’ll never stop wanting to Pedal my real bikes but this is fun want to go first or you just keep turning left basically yeah so uh so that was like oh you can

You turn left oh you’re going to be you’re going to be in trouble all just keep turning left right let’s get this to go yeah just keep turning left buddy too soon we’re not this is not the best start oh all right yeah W it’s

Wet it’s a bit like up the top of gypsy Glen we got the clag woo yeah what’s that it’s swappy it’s it’s like like up the top again I was like this is slick not easy to ride in this stuff W whoa just holding on that’s mad there’s

Kermit so yeah new Trail very cool Trail don’t know who buil it but done a good job up quite technical actually I’ve only ridden it once before here what’s that there a drop in here it’s right the end you’ll come out it’s open you’ll see a mile off and you

Can go around the right of it okay pretty cool yeah it’s more technical than I remember it oh nice oh so I think as I remember it you can of get out into the open nice I’m St Andrew there’s a we drop at a point it’s quite a NY

Thing oh there he is he stopped it oh that’s it okay I roll yeah I think that’s okay is it oh you made that look so easy so Easy where dides it go oh yeah nice it’s absolutely fine isn’t it sketch yeah Rec can section it all so we’re going to come to this new I sorry I’d say new Trail this joins into vinyl Justice I think it’s actually been here for a while it used to so whoever build

It basically just been riding their bike down through the Rock and it used to be Savage to get in it looks it still looks pretty Savage but it looks doable where before it did not look doable W that’s a oh my goodness me yeah that drop is

Sketchy yeah it’s not so much the drop it’s this surface is so loose this this section here after the Tim is the harder part yeah okay we can continue this is so steep isn’t it I’m like how do we start the bikes again so narrow oh wow fair play

Folks just going to watch it’s quite loose W yeah I mean it’s deeper than it looks on videos that’s for sure that’s always the way right oh nearly lost the front there oh my God nice oh there’s a double I’m not got the speed for

That W should to play start now so this must be back on to final Justice well that’s from the past for sure yo woo my goodness that’s the noise I made at the place I made it that’s a that took concentration that was quite yeah holy I don’t actually know what

This is called um there’s a few few Coy things in this a a this is such a cool Trail like I think of it it’s like a oh my god oh what that is that was not there before jeez I was so close to OTB well done

That is not that was not there before well this is a new oh so it is oh my gosh I kids seen you kids don’t rule that all so it’s a new section by the looks of it oh I see I see what’s happened we’ve got some damage holy right so there’s the

Drop I know it’s a weird thing just going to have a look at it he’s reminding himself the key is not to think not too much Anyway but yeah I mean I’ve looked this loads of times I mean I think it is literally you just get off the brakes there and it’s probably enough speed cuz it’s actually quite steep but it just looks weird oh nice Andrew you’re brave you went a little deep oh fair play

Mate bloody hell right so got another Trail here I I used to know all these Trail names that c me um used to call my videos here and I don’t know any of these Trails now all this bit I knew got storm affected but this is goes where I

Think it is it’s a a Coy natural Trail um so give go w oh wow holy yet wow so the Wows are from the fact that this is about as natural as it gets folks like real real hard to oh my gosh what what is That Yo oh

Yeah oh what oh my God Andrew oh something else that is tricky proper proper tricky on the limit of me staying on a bike for sure folks oh wow holy smoked oh my word oh that was Wilder that’s really wild uh sorry just before we head down the next Trail so

This explains the traction I can’t explain it folks these last few Trails so we’ve had snow we’ve had wet grass we’ve had thick mud wet Roots just about had every not quite the chunk but just about every the wet grass can do way the wet grass is frightening w oh there oh my

Word trying to find the oh my word oh right so this is the one I was talking about it’s uh it’s quite intimidating okay but the bit that I’ve been struggling with of St Andrew is I’ve in a weird way got progressively worse at

This now and every time I hit it I go shorter aggressive yeah Andrew nice you must remember in turn the bike so yeah Andrew was saying he thinks it was w six years ago since he was here nearly often and this Trail would have been pretty new in its infancy

Oh nice still a cool Trail steep foot Technic car where are we going who oh my wow conditions today are pretty sketch like a good really good oh my legs have gone I’m tired now matched the battery that actually get good timing that has matched the battery me cuz I’m getting quite

Tired yeah so that’s me finished the ride super cool 37 km 1300 M of climbing and that was a really good Day