This was our first day of real trail building after a long rest. We’d had a trail tidy day at the start and end of the summer season. Pretty much all of our work in late 2012 and early 2013 was based on trail patching and pothole fixing. So it was nice to have a […]
Trail build report: limestone shifting & berm fixing (start section) Read More »
This was our first trail build session after a long gap over the summer (our previous build day had been a tidy session too. Tidy). This was stage one in our plans for the trail. Stage two in November is shifting 20 tonnes of material to fix some pot holes and resurface the trail on
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This was a trail tidy session. The idea was to do various odd jobs in preparation for the Hargroves Cycles Demo Day. A group started on a litter sweep of the trail. We got a bit sidetracked and did some trail fixing at the end of a section that we call “motorway1”. We converted an
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After a bit of warm rain on Saturday it was promising to have a dry and sunny morning. Arriving just after 10am I found Stewart Mackay, Paul Kidd, Finlay Kidd and Wayne Brown ready and raring to go. We got stuck straight into the first task for the day: fixing a load of potholes in
Trail build report: pothole filling motorway 2, alley and triangle Read More »
The aim of this build day was to fill potholes and puddles using material from bags that had been filled on the previous build day. We also wanted to move logs from the recent forestry operations to ensure that the contractor didn’t have to drive over the trail to collect them. We’d walked the trail
Trail build report: pot hole fixing & wood moving on Piper’s hill Read More »
Shortcut to video and photo gallery. Mudtrek mountain bike breaks offer catered riding holidays and are based near Brechfa in Carmarthenshire, Wales. We were on a trip there in October 2012 when co-owner Jay mentioned that he wanted to build a skills loop in a strip of nearby woodland. I said that I could probably
Skills park build session at Mudtrek (with video) Read More »
We had to shoehorn this build day into our busy calendar of events. Originally we only had 3 people down to attend! Ignoring the claims that mothering Sunday was the problem then a campaign was started to see if we could improve the numbers. The plan for the day was simple: shift 20 tonnes of
Trail build day (20 tonnes shifted & start, North, East sides fixed). Read More »
This was a follow on from our initial drainage work and the nocturnal digging session the previous evening. At 1:30pm we had Phil Mayger, Jerome Crametz and myself (Tom) ready to dig a canal. We found Chris Hopkinson wandering around the trail and he joined us. We linked the ditch that I’d dug the previous evening with
Trail build report: Sat 5th Jan 2013 – east side drainage & triangle tweek Read More »
We’d made a start on draining a large puddle on the OCD (obsessive compulsive drainage) session a week earlier. This was a 2 hour digging session on my own where I drained the remaining water out of the last remaining puddle. I started at 4pm and it was dark by 5pm so I used my
Trail build report: Fri 4th Jan 2013 – east side drainage Read More »
This was a bonus build session on the Saturday after Christmas. When I arrived at the special festive late start time of 11am then I found Phil Mayger, Phil Allum, Jez, Gary Palmer and Shaun Carolin standing in the rain raring to go. After the heavy rain then we found plenty of OCD (obsessive compulsive
Trail build report: Sat 29th Dec 2012 – OCD work (start, mway, east side,triangle) Read More »
