The original plan was to go and cut a new line in area 4 on the map below. We’d discussed this a few months ago. Well, we spent half an hour looking at the route options and a decision was made to leave it as it was for now. We would then fix it by […]
Build report: Thursday 19th Aug 2010 Read More »
We’ve done a lot of trail building in 2010. Most of this has been rebuilding work, with a significant redesign of the layout. This has been done to remove confusing junctions, make better use of any gradient and to make the trail flow better. Pretty much the first third of the trail is now less
Trail development plans Aug 2010 Read More »
Some statistics from our recent trail building sessions. 340m built. 90m of old trail filled back in. 41 hours build time. 10 days from start to finish. 14 volunteers involved. 150 person hours. 8m of new trail per hour and just over 2m per person hour. Approx 25 tonnes of material dropped using a 250Kg
Trail build video and building stats. Read More »
Wednesday 28th July 2010 We were so pleased with our progress on the previous weekend that we set ourselves the ambitious target of digging out and surfacing the first half by the end of the coming weekend. We spent Wednesday night digging out the second half of the undug first half. Whilst Anthony, Jenny, Lee
Build progress 28th, 29th, 31st July & 1st Aug 2010 (mway1) Read More »
After a bit of a rest during June and doing odd jobs in early July the time had finally come to get on with the next big job. This was rebuilding the section that follows on from the new start. This is the area that had the “rock garden” straight down the hill and then
Build progress 22, 24 & 25th July 2010. Read More »
Thursday 8th July: Phil, Mr Anon and Jack spent the evening finished off the new log over the bomb hole. This has been thoroughly tested and is just narrow enough to make riders think a bit. Thursday 15th July 2010: Mr Anon cleared out the area after the log feature. Months ago we spent several
Trail build report: 8th and 15th July 2010. Read More »
Our very own wood man (anon) had cut and surfaced a 3m length of tree trunk for us. The challenge was to move this into place. We still weren’t sure where it was going to go when we started – we’d discussed a few locations but wanted to see how difficult moving it was before
Build evening: Thursday 1st July 2010 Read More »
Thursday 10th June We spent a few hours doing an important job that had nothing to show for itself. On the back straight of the new start we dug out the yellow gravel, filled the hole with Limestone chippings and then put the yellow gravel back on the top. We hope that this will fix
Trail build report: Thur 10th & Sun 13th June 2010 Read More »
Saturday It was possibly the hottest day of the year so far and we were all knackered from the night ride and pub session of the previous evening. Nevertheless we still had things to do. I started out by rounding up all the bits of wood, rocks and rubble that had accumulated in the new
Trail build report: weekend 22nd & 23rd May 2010 Read More »
