Mt Stromlo Flow Trails | Canyon Neuron
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- čas přidán 30. 01. 2021
- This time on five minute rides… my still very new 2021 Canyon Neuron 6 and I have found the happiest place on Earth, at the Mt Stromlo Mountain bike trails.
Mt Stromlo is only 22 minutes drive from Parliament House and 25 minutes from the Canberra CBD, but if it wasn’t for these seriously killer trails, then I don’t know why anyone would really want to visit our nations capital?
So today, along with a huge group from Sydney called the Dim Sim MTB Crew, I’ve paid for a shuttle pass with Dynamic Motivation so that gravity can do all the hard work while we have all the fun!
First up is nice green trail called Skyline. With a 1.2km run and a 79 meter decent you’ll hit the bottom in around 3 minutes. It’s popular because it’s easy and allows you to gain some good speed but just like all the trails in the area, you need to be aware of just how dry and loose the ground is, especially on those corners.
Now this is my second time experiencing a gravity park and the Canyon Neuron 6 is performing beautifully. For those who saw my last video at Greenvalley’s mountain bike park you’ll remember just how fast the wheels were turning without much peddling at all. Well, here at Stromlo, it’s all that and a bag of chips! And for those curious about the bike, I did receive one comment on the GV video questioning with surprise that I was able to do all that on a Neuron! I think the 130mm travel throws travel snobs off (sorry if you’re one of those), but let me just say 130mm front and rear is plenty. Drops and jumps throughout the flow trails as you’ll soon see is no problem at all for the Neuron.
At the brigdeasection (that’s right, I just made up a word), we peel off to the left and send it down a trail called Luge - another highly popular green trail filled with berms that when coming down from Skyline adds a nice mix of tight cornering and flow control to the downhill run.
Now in all these trails, going fast is rather effortless. You throw in a few cranks to get the wheels turning at the beginning and then let gravity do the rest.
Neuron however with it’s big 29ers, I feel is a bit cumbersome on the berms. Coming from a 27.5 inch wheel size on my previous bike, smaller wheels will manage the tight turns better so if gravity trails and berms were your only go to type of trail, then you might want to consider the Canyon Spectral or some other 27.5” wheeled rig.
Next up is a blue trail called Trebuchet. This 2 km intermediate trail features jumps, berms, drops and sweeping views across Canberra! Yay!
Beginning at the top of the hill by the Observatory, things get fast, fast! At first, I feel like I’m screwing up all the corners, and nervously noticing how extremely dry and loose the ground is, it’s clear this narrow trail is really not going to be very forgiving if you don’t hold the line. Just look at the size of the jaggared looking rocks to the side of the trail!
On the fun side, the jumps range from tabletops to small doubles that pop really easily, feel great to land, and they’re also spaced out quite nicely - so you have a chance to refocus before the next one.
At the bridgeasection we bear right to stay on Trebuchet and my confidence gets a boost as I begin to really allow the wheels to soak up the gravity and relax a lot more on the break lever.
At the red sign that shouts “caution!” my fellow riders move to the smaller of the three upcoming drops and I take the chance to overtake them “albeit blindly” with the largest of the three drops.
Case!
If only I put a bit more speed into it I would have landed that a little nicer.
Again however, there’s a lot to be said for the Neuron here as (despite my poor riding) the travel still soaked up the crunch really well.
With two wheels still on the ground and I race ahead, hitting the tiny kicker and launching into the berms that lead to the last leg of this trail.
With more berm and jumps the bike is really flying.
And flying.
And jumping.
Aaannd this is where I became unstuck.
A bit of a scrape for me and a scratch or two to the Neuron but damn, it took the beating well. I think I was more concerned about the bike than my shoulder but this thing was virtually unscathed and ready to go again.
Back on the horse, the last leg of Trebuchet is a lot tamer as the gradient begins to flatten out. Now throwing a few more peddles in, there’s a few last jumps to be cleared and another drop marked with a red caution sign before finally reaching the bottom.
So would I want to come back to Stromlo again? You bet I would. Of course the day went on but the GoPro did not! So with over 40km of mountain bike trails, our 7 or 8 shuttle runs across the course of the day barely scratched the surface of what this place has to offer and I’ll be back here again before too long.
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I love Stromlo. Probably the best park. Pork Barrel is my all time favourite. You will appreciate how capable your 29” really is here. The bummer about Pork Barrel is the long climb back although you can take the shared bike path next to the road back.
You look to be riding all the other parks that I ride. Hit me up on your next ride if you’d like some company.
I’ll be back at Stromlo on 1 December. Getting a shuttle ticket.
Glad you had a great time :)
Love riding Stromlo. Next time get out the back on Western Wedgetail, Pork barrel,e tc. They are also excellent gravity trails. So much fun at Stromlo.
Ah yes we actually did do Pork Barrel right at the end of the day. Lots of fun. But GoPro was cooked by then.
Planning to go here this Saturday so it is great to have some sort of guide for a beginner!! Just praying weather holds up! Great video
Enjoy it’s a great park.
I've got my Neuron 7.0 AL 2020 since August 2020. I absolutely love that bike. Does it all uphill and downhill.
Went tubeless on the first day I got it, put crank brothers doubleshots and ergon fat grips on it. Done! Can ride it all day long.
I went tubeless first up too
Yewwwww. Glad you could join us #DIMSIMMTB buddy. That crash was gnarly. I’m glad you didn’t die 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Me too bro 😎
Great stuff! Looking forward to seeing more vids with the Canyon Neuron, had mine for half a year now and it's great. I upgraded the front tyre to conti der baron 2.4, made it tubeless and changed the handlebar to have 35mm rise and 785mm width, made a hell of a difference for downhill rides!
I’ve changed the seat, replaced the cranks because I busted them, changed the handle bar to a carbon 25mm riser and went tubeless.
Cool. How tall are you?
@@axtrw2527 186 ;)
Another quality offering mate.
Your crash looked worse at first, landing on those rocks....yikes 😳
Yeh it wasn’t much fun but coulda been a lot worse.
@@FiveMinuteRides What happened? From the video it looks like your bike was super jumpy, maybe too much rebound on the suspension? Please don't think I have any idea about mountain biking.
@@bepeem That section is a classic place to crash. It's an awkward set of rollers that's very bucky. They recently re-did it to remove the worst of it though.
I felt that wipe out too. Ouch.
Not as much as I felt it 😂😂
nice colorway! got mine in flash blue..
Yeh I like that colour too. Looks great. Maybe next time I’ll go for something brighter. Just always wanted a black bike.
mate that stack had me worried. looked like the shoulder went straight into a rock and could broken something. lucky you got away with just a scrape
When you fall it’s like it happens in slow motion. Like yours brain says oh crap how do I minimize how much this is going to hurt! 😂 thankfully it worked out ok and I could get back up and keep riding
Need more vids on this bike dude!
czcams.com/video/7uFpNJWAl48/video.html latest vid with the Canyon Neuron hitting the downhill trail at Thredbo.
Top bit was Western Wedge Tail, not Skyline. Skyline kicks in from that first big Fire road down the bottom of the first section.
All jumps and drops on Trebuchet are rollable, so it is pretty safe for most riders, but if you go off anything too fast, rollable or not, you need to take care. Even the large drop can be rolled, but it's easy to turn it in to a big drop.
Glad you didn't hurt yourself too much when you came off. Looked pretty bad. That double double there is tough, I've stacked it there once before too from mis timing it.
You didn't show it in the video, but there was one more section of trebuchet down, then a fire road crossing, just after that crossing the trail merges in to another trail called old duffy descent. You do the last tiny bit of that, cross a small fire road (and this is where your video resumed), and this is the last bit of old duffy which had the small drop on the left.
Great work with the video! There is a huge range of trails, and a bunch at the back that enough people don't visit when shuttling due to needing to do a short peddle back, though there are some fire road short cuts or a bike path loop from the bottom that can still get you back in time for the next shuttle. If you are out for runs again someday, shout out and I'd be happy to take you around some of the great trails. There is of course also the black downhill runs too (which come down the front of the mountain right back to the shuttle quite quickly - via the container bridge "bridge section".
Thanks it’s a great park. We also did a couple of lines over the back after the GoPro was cooked but it was a super windy day that say so we were limited on what we could ride. Look forward to getting back there.
Great video.
Could you do a overall review of the neuron after some time of riding it ;D
Good idea. Watch this space 😉
@@FiveMinuteRides thx. Im getting the same bike in 20 days, and im so stoked on getting to ride it.
It’s a great bike. I love it. You won’t regret it.
i hear you about ‘travel snobs’ but for heavier riders (100kg) is the burlier Canyon Spectral a better option?
(there is no big gravity sections where i ride but the short downhills are rough and rowdy to make up for the lack of elevation)
Hard to say. Spectral seems like a good bike too. I was going to get Spectral but switched to Neuron for the more all rounder / all mountain style of riding I typically do which includes lots of uphill pedaling.
does the fork have an o-ring on one of the suspension legs?
No it doesn’t
Hey I was just wondering do you have a GoPro chest mount or what kind of mount do you have?
GoPro 7 (so old now) with GoPro chesty and a gimbal.
Does the suspension, front and rear, make a squelchy sound, or is it just mine?
Not that I’ve noticed
@@FiveMinuteRides okay thanks, guess I need to look in to that further 😕😂
how is the front fork? is it any good?
Haven’t snapped it yet. And i don’t go easy on it
Do 27.5 wheels fit the frame, too?
No idea
How are the brakes?
They do the job. But no matter how good they are, going too fast towards the edge of the trail didn’t stop me from coping a scrape 😂
Are the rims tubeless ready?
Yes. I had mine turned tubeless
@@FiveMinuteRides Alright, thanks!
130mm in the front ? I wouldn't go less then 140mm
Guess it depends on what trails you’re riding. That said, for the rougher stuff I wouldn’t mind a bit more in the forks, like maybe 150mm… but 130mm has been fine for the most part.
@@FiveMinuteRides I will probably save a little bit more money and get the hightower al d with 145mm in the front and be on the safe side. The last thing I want is regretting my decision. Bikes are so expensive, I can't buy a new one every year.
Check out Canyon Spectral if you want more travel. I was going to get this at first, but it didn’t come in a 29er until later when they realized the carbon 29er and that would have been out of my price range anyway.
@@FiveMinuteRides as a German, I always have an eye on the canyons 👍 awesome bikes. What do you think about the Scott genius 950 ? Seems like a good bike for the price.
Tbh I haven’t looked at it
I cringed hard watching you hit that rock :/
😂 me too!!