Steve from Hargroves Cycles is taking us on this interesting route in uncharted territory on Walbury hill near Hungergford. He’s promising around 21 miles and 790m of ascent. Steve says: “entirely off road, the descents are generally very fast, there is one technical one with loose off camber chalky corners. The climbs are quite stiff …
This was a bonus trail build day. The aim was to finish off various jobs ready for our open day on the 1st April 2012. We’d made great progress on the previous weekend. As normal, Brandon Hire delivered a compactor on Saturday morning. For a change Phil was there to meet them. Meanwhile I (Tom) …
Trail build report: Sat 10th March – various resurfacing jobs & signs Read More »
Rain was forecast and the skies obliged. Luckily our trail builders are a hardy (and some say stupid) bunch. Excitement was high as Jez delivered the first two 5m beams for the bridge into the triangle. This was installed with the help of Phil, Richard and Kristian. The triangle area is going to contain around …
This was a Saturday afternoon meet. A group consisting of Pete, Tom, Simon, Mike and Anne moved bricks and rubble from the car park to locations near the East side of the pitch. These are going to be used in the future to surfrace the only remaining stretch of unsurfaced trail. This project will take …
This was a Wednesday evening meet. We spent two hours moving gravel up onto Piper’s hill. This was stockpiled in various strategic locations ready to be used to surface the new section as soon as the weather turns wet (for new section see the map below weekend build report). There’s little point in putting the …
After months and months spent surfacing existing trail (see the build reports) we’re finally going to work on a new section. This on Piper’s hill just after the rock steps. The plan is for a new climb and swoopy descent that will make better use of the hill side. It’s only taken us three years …
April build day #2 – The Big Push goes on a bit more and then stops Read More »
After months and months spent surfacing existing trail (see the build reports) we’re finally going to work on a new section. This on Piper’s hill just after the rock steps. The plan is for a new climb and swoopy descent that will make better use of the hill side. It’s only taken us three years …
This was a Wednesday evening meet. We had a great turnout with several new people, which is great. By 8:15pm we had marked out the new section on Piper’s hill, cleared all of the branches and dug out the top section.
After months and months spent surfacing existing trail (see the build reports) we’re finally going to work on a new section. This on Piper’s hill just after the rock steps. The plan is for a new climb and swoopy descent that will make better use of the hill side. It’s only taken us three years …
We spent several months over the winter of 2010 surfacing and reinforcing existing sections of trail. Since the warmer weather the trail has dried out and is in great shape for riding. The hard work has paid off – the trail is really fun to ride at the moment. We’re in such a good mood …
