Ae forest - mtb - Scotland
Hit AE forest for the first time and was pleasantly surprised at how good the trail were. Lots of natural stuff to
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Ae Forest & Dalbeattie, Seven Stanes, Scotland February 2019
The Ginger One has finally got his finger out from where he normally keeps it (shudder) and organised his long-awaited Scotland trip. A few months later than promised, in the False Spring of February 2019, we were crossing the border, to the land of Irn Bru and those ever so tasty breakfast haggis slices. The village with the shortest name in Great Britain is today's destination, Ae, or more specifically, it's forest and the next day was to be Dalbeattie. The weather was better than the many summer days, there was beer, pies and a night out in Dumfries, two excellent rides with (mainly failed) attempts at stuff way out of the league of gentlemen on the verge of middle-age.
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Shimano BDS: Round 3, Ae Forest - On Board With Fox
The Forest Of Ae Red Route
My first time at The Forest Ae, we did the Ae Line Trail - Red Route. I found it amazingly fun but quite difficult at certain sections, although it looks sunny in the video it was pretty wet and slippy. Very rocky all the way through to the end. It's defo more natural than Glentress, takes way more energy out of you. I bottled it on the last jump as I was a bit shattered and didn't have proper shoes on. :(
Rose Bikes BDS 2015: Round 1, Ae Forest - Official Video
Round 1 of British Cycling's national mountain bike downhill series sees riders take to the hillside in the Forest of Ae near Dumfries, Scotland, just a week before the opening World Cup weekend in Lourdes. Catch all the action from practice and race day in the official video.
The Village and Bridge of Ae, Dumfries & Galloway
Ae is Scotlands youngest village with the UK's shortest placename, built by the Forestry Commission circa 1947. The village is not solely occupied by forestry workers these days and has a primary school that also serves local farms. No shops are present however Dumfries is not too far away. Bridge of Ae was a hamlet on the now diverted main road to Dumfries.
Ae Forest Downhill, Chumbawamba Edit
I put some of the GoPro videos together from a days riding at Ae forest after the 2012 SDA finals
Jack and Mike Cooke - RAC Rally 2006 - Ae Forest
Jack and Mike on a flyer!!
poc scottish enduro series round 4 Ae forest stage3
stage 3 practice of this weekends scottish enduro series
RSAC Scottish Rally Ae Forest Stage 1
RAC Rally 06 Ae Forest
Ae Forest on a cold November day
2013 SDA #4 Ae forest
Full headcam run of the Ae forest SDA track. They really gave us something special with a bit of everything on the track. I managed a 2.11 on my first race run which was good enough for 15th place and only 10 seconds off the win.
RSAC Scottish Rally Ae Forest Stage 1
Ae Downhill 2015
My second run of the Ae downhill course
On-Board with George Gannicott at Ae Forest BDS 2014
George of Gannicott Racing doing a full run in practice at Ae Forest BDS
Dumfries To Ae Edited With iPad
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Trailer for 'The Scottish Lowlands'
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Scottish Lowlands features walks around Loch Skene and on Broad Law near Moffat, and above Glen Rosa in the Isle of Arran. Also featured is mountain biking at Ae Forest and the standing stones at Machrie Moor.
AVEBURY CIRCLE Wiltshire ~ England ~ By AL AE NU RA
Most visitors to Britain will be familiar with the image of Stonehenge as one of the country's most iconic landmarks that attracts thousands of visitors every year.
Not very far from Stonehenge though, is another equally impressive archaeological site that remains little visited by comparison with its more famous neighbour. The site is called 'Avebury' and it remains one of the most fascinating and mysterious places in the World.
Today the small village of Avebury lies nestled in the folds of the landscape of Wiltshire in Southern England, a green and generally open area of beautiful countryside. The most amazing thing about Avebury village though is that the small cluster of houses lies in the centre of an incredible circle of huge stones known as 'megaliths'. The history of the village is thus inevitably linked to the prehistoric monuments that surround it. Abandoned for several thousand years the land around the stones became occupied once more when people of the Saxon period began to settle in the area. Their arrival and subsequent development of the present village was to have a dramatic effect on the history of the stones for this is a landscape sculpted by ancient man for purposes we can only guess at.
Around 4,500 years ago, when London was still was a thinly inhabited marshland, the area around Avebury almost certainly formed the Neolithic equivalent of a city. In Archaeological terms the site of Avebury is known as a 'henge' -- an area that incorporates a number of incredible features including an enormous ditch, steep earth banks, huge natural stones that form both circles and linear avenues and many other archaeological curiosities like burial mounds and sacred streams. Very close to Avebury lies the equally enigmatic Silbury Hill, the largest man-made mound in Europe that today dominates the surrounding landscape as much today as it would have done throughout the centuries. If that wasn't enough the two largest surviving British 'long barrows' of West Kennet and East Kennet are also to be found a short distance away and in recent years the remains of two massive enclosures have also been discovered. The whole area around Avebury therefore provides us with an amazing 'open air museum' that prompted the famous antiquarian John Aubrey to remark it does as much exceed in greatness the so renowned Stonehenge as a Cathedral does a parish church
The stone circle is thought to date from around 2600 BC which means it was already ancient at the time of the Roman Invasion of Britain.Although it is virtually impossible to state with any certainty why the Avebury complex was carved out of the landscape by ancient man we do know that the original circular ditch was dug out with antler picks and stone tools around 2500 BC and was originally a staggering ten metres deep. It is on the central island of land created by the ditch that the incredible megalithic stones were set into the ground but experts believe that the stones were put in place prior to the creation of the ditch around 2600BC.
The actual stones where quarried from the Marlborough Downs and transported overland, probably on wooden rollers. This must have been a monumental task as some of the stones within the circle are over 40 tons, almost twice as heavy as some of the Stonehenge stones, although not as well finished and shaped. There were originally around 100 of these stones although only 27 remain, the missing stones marked today by concrete posts.
If you visit Avebury today it is probably the size of the stones that leaves a lasting impression but when the circle was first constructed the most awesome feature must have been the ditch and bank which had been dug from the solid chalk of the Wiltshire landscape.
The stone circle and henge that surround the village is only one of a series of ancient monuments that are concentrated in a relatively small area of Wiltshire that archaeologists refer to as a 'ritual Neolithic landscape'. When in full use around 4000 years ago the Avebury complex must have been a truly awe inspiring place.
As with all ancient sites a certain mythology or folklore is attached to certain stones and visitors to this site today are still shown features like the 'Devil's chair', a natural seat where wishes can be made or childless couples can sit in the hope that pregnancy will soon follow! Other stories abound of stones moving in the dead of night accompanied by mysterious lights.
Like most ancient sites there is also a strong connection to Astronomy and indeed many of the stones not only align to particular stars but also align to other ancient features of the landscape and research continues to this day into such topics.
UK Enduro 2016 RD1 Stage 4
U.K. Enduro series Rd1 Crychan Forest March 2016.