From our facebook page: “A massive turnout for the action day of, er, just the four of us (Mr and Mrs Steve Smith, Phil and Tom). We got loads done anyway. We started at 8am and worked on the last bit in reverse. I cleared through the undergrowth to connect to the existing part just […]
Trail build report: 2nd Nov – trail exit Read More »
From the Facebook diary at the time: “We did a test ride this afternoon and adjusted some of the corners on the sections round the playing fields. We’ve got an early start on Sunday and plan to surface the South and West sections”. Full trail build diary.
Trail build report: 1st Nov – test ride Read More »
This was before we had any Land Rover enthusiasts to help us and before we started using the power barrow (Muck Truck). So we had to handball material using wheel barrows. As you can see from the photograph we were already looking for ways of making the job easier.The material was type 1 road building
Trail build report: 25th Oct – moving red gravel Read More »
We were joined on this build day by Kate and James. The diary is sketchy – it looks like we tweeked the trail on the north east corner, adding what we call the “roller coaster” corner. We then moved down the east side cutting the trail to the pond and round the section there. Most
Trail build report: 19th Oct – route cutting on East side Read More »
This was another early trail build day with just Phil and Tom present. We continued cutting out a route in the woods on the East side of the pitch. None of this was ever used – we went for a more direct line as a temporary measure and that was then adopted as the proper
Trail build report: 18th Oct – route cutting on East side Read More »
It’s still early days on the trail and the current aim is to get the basic route finished. Some of the route is a bit bare, and there’s not enough features on it yet, but that will all be sorted in the fullness of time. The aim is add more raised woodwork, bermed corners, jumps
Trail build update: 16th Oct 2008 Read More »
This was a trail build day with just Phil and Tom present. We carried on cutting out the new line on the North side of the pitch and also cut a load of new route on the East side. The North part was tweeked slightly on later build days: a section was moved further up
Trail build report: 12th Oct – route cutting on North and East side Read More »
This was a build evening for Phil and Tom. When we arrived then the basis of a route on the North side of the pitch had already been marked out by Steve Smith and his wife. They were responsible for the trail at that time, relinquishing this to Phil in early 2009. We quickly reached
Trail build report: 11th Oct – route cutting on North side Read More »
This was our second trail build day (Phil and Tom). At that time we had no idea where this project was going to go. We just saw a trail with potential and wanted to start making some changes to it. For this day we built berms on two flat corners that we felt needed them.
Second trail build day – berm shaping Read More »
This was the very first build day for what was to become the MBSwindon club 18 months later. Phil had heard about the trail in the woods behind Nationwide and taken a look. He asked me (Tom) if I was up for a spot of trail building and I said yes. We spotted a nice
First trail build day – rock moving and berm shaping Read More »
