The aim of this build day was to fill potholes and puddles using material from bags that had been filled on the previous build day. We also wanted to move logs from the recent forestry operations to ensure that the contractor didn’t have to drive over the trail to collect them. We’d walked the trail …
Trail build report: pot hole fixing & wood moving on Piper’s hill Read More »
This was a short build session. The entrance to the alley section was resurfaced after being hammered by the recent Prospect Hospice ride. Jon Proudman was cycling past and stopped to help. The alley was surfaced in Oct 2010, exit mods on 5th Dec 2010 surfaced Jan 2011 and the final link in Dec 2011. A fence was built on Piper’s hill next …
Trail build report…alley surfacing and some fence work Read More »
We had two targets for the weekend: surface the climb on Piper’s hill plus make a start on the last remaining mud section of the trail: the east side of the pitch. Piper’s hill had been dug out in April 2011 and survived really well as mud (see the build report from April). The onset …
Build report: Sat 26th Nov 2011 Surfacing Piper’s hill climb Read More »
Saturday 9th April 2011 The plan for the weekend was to dig out a new climb and descent on Piper’s hill. This was the result of three years of discussion and around 15 drawings concerning what to do with the hill. The plan was quite simple – a diagonal climb up the hill roughly parallel …
This weekend was planned as a big push. The idea was to finish off a new section that had been started the previous weekend and then to get as much of Piper’s hill as possible rebuilt. This was a good bit of trail that had been built in 2009 and resurfaced in October 2010 but had sunk due …
Trail build report: Fri 18th – Sun 20th March 2011 Read More »
It was another cold day with snow and ice on the ground. The sun was shining though. After Chris dropped the power barrow off then Phil and myself used the last of our remote gravel pile to do a small modification to the trail. This was on the straight section just before the start of …
There was still snow and ice on the ground when we started at 9:30am. It did feel a bit warmer though and it wasn’t raining. Chris dropped the power barrow off and I (Tom) was on my own for a few hours. I decided to move some rubble on the top of Piper’s hill but …
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 »
Saturday 30th October 2010 I picked up the power barrow and whacker plate from Brandon Hire Swindon on Saturday morning. They didn’t believe that the barrow would fit in my Mk3 Golf Estate. It does, as I showed them. However, the whacker plate and planks were too much, so they delivered them in their van. …
Trail build report: Sat 30th & Sun 31st October 2010 Read More »
