Croft Diary

I spent a few hours on Friday afternoon and then again on Saturday morning moving bricks from a location in Chisdeldon. On Saturday afternoon Phil and myself had a look at all four new sections that make up the start. Looking at the plan below the Red is existing Red, the Blue is existing Blue

On Sat 13th March local mountain bikers http://settingascene.com/ are having a ride and trail building event. Join their forum and discuss here. We also have this as a Facebook event and on this site here. We have 6 trail build days planned for March. The aim is to make some serious progress on the new

A very productive build day. Phil and the man whose name we keep forgetting started on fixing the sunken section at the start (built in June 2009). They were joined a bit later by Pete and finally by Tom. The whole section had sunk into the mud, so the existing gravel was buried under a

We now have 3 large crates of rubble and concrete on the site ready to be used for fixing some of the boggy sections. There’s also 10 tonnes of crushed concrete ready to go. We believe that we’ll soon have funding for another lorry load of the Red MOT grade gravel.

QUIET Things have gone a bit quiet on the trail building in the last few months. This is because we used up our supplies of MOT grade gravel and also had no funding in place to buy any more. WEBSITE The time hasn’t been wasted though; this website has been developed and is attracting a

The trail itself is looking a little worse for wear in places, mainly due to the bad weather that we’ve had for the last couple of months. Nothing that can’t be fixed with a little hard work and some gravel. Speaking of gravel, we are now in desperate need of some. If anyone knows of

Rainy day. In the morning Rafe, Phil, Pete and Tom installed some sample patches of the latest non-slip surface for the woodwork…..heavy duty felt roof tiles. The afternoon was spent digging out and surfacing the trail on the South side of the pitch near the pond. When tiredness was setting in Lee turned up, and

Another day with the probation service. They had 8 really keen people, the van, the trailer and 4 wheelbarrows at their disposal. These guys shifted a hell of a lot of gravel. They’re coming back next week too (most of them). In the morning they surfaced the remaining part of the start of Piper’s hill.

We had the probation service here today with 8 people and a trailer. They finished off the surfacing on the downhill at Piper’s hill, the outlet section and half of the inlet section. Pete directed that whilst Phil and Tom did some work on improving the woodwork grip. The jump half way down Piper’s hill