Monday Thanks to the help of Earthline and Wiltshire HBM we managed to sort out our material supplies. Our problems were caused by us referring the grey material that we had been using as “crushed concrete”. It wasn’t; it was actually Limestone chippings. Both suppliers were very understanding and sorted out a mess of our […]
Trail build report: 17th – 20th May 2010 (evenings) Read More »
The original aim was to spend the weekend finishing the new Red loop. However, things didn’t go to plan. The 20 tonne delivery of crushed concrete turned out to be more like demolition waste. This would be ideal for the hardcore base of a track, but not suitable to surface a mountain bike trail. It
Trail build report: weekend 15th & 16th May 2010 Read More »
Thursday On Thursday evening we spent a few hours working on the trail. Present were Alan, new recruit army Mike and myself. We dug out the straights between the berms on the new Red section and filled them with rubble. It rained for a while. Saturday On Saturday I arrived at 10am and spent a
Trail build report: Mayday weekend 2010 Read More »
I’ve been sorting through the various maps of the trail from the last 18 months. I’ve got a few more to come that show the various design ideas we considered for sections of the trail. Maps are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/92961862@N00/sets/72157623898753336/. Did you know? “The route is approximately 5.2km long. The site has a perimeter of 2.3km,
Trail maps from the last 18 months Read More »
Four of us (Phil, Pete, ***** and Tom) spent the day finishing stage one of the woodwork in the new Red section. Pretty much every single part of this has been built from recycled parts. We’ve now got a slightly higher section at the end, built up on 2 piles of logs. There’s an escape
Trail building Sun 18th April 2010 Read More »
I was up early and it was a bright and sunny early spring morning, which is always a bonus. Rafe and myself spent 2 hours moving rocks from an address in Wootton Bassett. This was another Freecycle (or Freegle) find. We now have about 80 decent rocks on the site that cost us nothing except
Trail building Sat 17th April 2010. Read More »
I spent 4 hours on Friday afternoon moving material for the new berms. The sun was shining and spring had clearly begun. It was light until 7:30pm. Saturday was also a warm and sunny day. We noticed that some of the trees had just started to turn green and there was new grass growing. We
Spring finally sprung. Build progress 9th/10th April. Read More »
We’ve been busy down at the trail recently. The new start route was opened a few weeks ago, but there were still a few jobs left to do. We bypassed the pointless loop on the old Blue route. The gravel has been dug out of this part and it’s been filled back in with mud.
Trail build update 3rd April 2010 Read More »
We had a late start at 1pm because it was mothering Sunday. We had decided to go for Gold and get the new start finished by the end of the day. In some ways a bit of a mad plan, but it’s amazing how much can get done when there’s a target to meet. Phil
Trail build report, Sunday 14th March 2010. Read More »
This was day organised with Settingascene.com. It was a sunny morning, which was nice. Three of us did 2 laps of the trail, whilst the other two did a walking tour. The trail is holiding up quite well considering the weather we had this winter. After that we moved a load of material for an
Report: Ride and trail build with Settingascene. Read More »
