Phil and myself (Tom) did a test ride of the trail. Here’s our feedback which was posted on the Facebook group at the time: “ Phil and myself did a test ride this afternoon. We’ve identified a whole load of things that don’t make sense on the route, but on the plus side there’s several [...]

Phil and myself (Tom) continued our work on the first rock garden feature. We then made a start on the second major rock garden on the trail. We built the lower section of this. The rock feature was finished a few weeks later and the first time I rode it was quite scary. We pretty [...]

Phil and myself (Tom) spent the afternoon working on the first rock garden feature. We did modify it slightly a few weeks after building it by making a bit wider in the middle. It’s quite a tricky little feature. Full trail build diary.

A deluge of rain meant that some of the woodwork section had floated away. We spent the morning retrieving the missing sections. We tackled the source of the problem by removing overgrown trees from the banks of the river. (At a later date the council came along and cut a massive branch away downstream and [...]

We’d used the Land Rover to move the red type one stone to the South side of the pitch on the previous day. When we arrived then the piles of gravel had frozen solid and we had to smash them to get them moving. Phil and myself spent the day raking out the material and [...]

We made brilliant progress today, digging out 150m of trail and surfacing about 80% of that, with the necessary materials in place to finish it off on Sunday. This is on the Southern edge of the football pitch. We had the Land Rover today, so were able to dump material straight onto the trail. We [...]