The snow had finally melted and the ground was no longer frozen solid. In the morning Phil, Tony, Mike and myself (Tom) dug out the new line in the section before the triangle. Blue arrow 1 in the diagram below. The new route avoids a boggy area. The boggy area had been fixed back in […]
Trail build report: Tues 28th Dec 2010 Read More »
The unsurfaced sections of the trail were so bad last week that we’re probably going to do a virtual ride this week. i.e: skip the riding and go straight to the pub. If by any chance it has snowed on then we’ll probably be riding it. Meet in the car park for 7:30pm as normal
Friday night ride + trail build Read More »
Saturday 20th Nov We spent the morning moving logs into the triangle. As you can see in the photos, they’re surfaced and they’ve got MBSwindon engraved into the side of them. Present were Rafe, Phil, Tom and Mr Anon. Then we dumped two loads of rubble onto Piper’s hill. There are still some sections here
Trail build report: Sat 20th & Sun 21st Nov 2010 Read More »
We had 60 tonnes of chipped limestone and 10 tonnes of mud delivered to the trail (20 to triangle, 20 to Piper’s hill and 20 to car park). Our supplier Earthline used their 10 tonne truck to drop the material inside the site very close to where we planned to use it. This will save
Build report: Fri 15th Aug 2010 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 »
