We’d made significant progress on the previous day Our plans for Sunday were to use up the last of the material on a short section near the rock spine and then compact, dust and finish off the whole section. The air temperature was noticeably higher – it’d been hovering around 3 and 4 degrees […]
Trail build report: Sun 28th Oct 2012 – North side Read More »
The trail on “the north side” is the oldest section, dating from mid 2008 and some minor tweaks in Sept 2009. This area had withstood 4 years of use without too much trouble until the summer of 2012. Numerous muddy pot holes had formed. The result of a very thin layer of material (15mm in
Trail build report: Sat 27th Oct 2012 – North side Read More »
Earthline delivered 20 tonnes of material. This time we went for 18 tonnes of type 1 limestone and 2 tonnes of 10mm down rocks. This was used on the build days (Saturday and Sunday). Complete build diary. Future build events are shown on our calendar.
Trail build report: Fri 26th Oct 2012 – 20 tonnes of material Read More »
Our plans for the weekend were to repair the section on the north side plus topping up various areas of trail that either had pot holes or had suffered over the wettest summer in 100 years. The section on the north side was one of the oldest remaining areas, having been surfaced in early 2008
Build report: Sat 8th Sept 2012 – North side and triangle top up Read More »
Following on from our progress on Saturday we were planning on filling in a load of trail on the east side of the pitch on this day. Phil and myself arrived at 8:30am in order to collect the power barrow from Jez and to get a head start on the east side. At 10am prompt
Build report: Sun 27th Nov 2011 Read More »
We tidied up the trail on the South side of the pitch. This was originally build in December 2008. The line was straightened out a bit and a new berm was built in place of a tight corner round a tree. Meanwhile, on the North side of the pitch another pointless corner was removed. Finally
Trail build report: 13th Sept 2009 Read More »
I’ve just got back from an absolute epic day. I was on my own for the first few hours and after a slow start I must have shifted around 25 loads of gravel on my own, giving about 60m of trail. Then Alan turned up, followed a bit later by Phil. The three of us
Trail build report: Sat 18th April 2009 – North side surfacing Read More »
We had a really productive day on Saturday. Phil and myself converted some pre-dumped piles of gravel into surfaced trail on the North side of the pitch. Meanwhile Steve and family shifted gravel. We’ve never seen so many riders out and about. Two went home and came back ready to trail build. With five of
Trail build report: Sat 28th Feb 2009 – North side & resurfacing Read More »
Sunday was also a very productive day. Phil finished off surfacing down by the boardwork. When I turned up we then sorted out the mud pit after the two short sections of boardwork. Then we used up the last of the gravel piles and filled in a small patch on the south east corner of
Trail build report: Sun 29th Feb 2009 – South and North side surfacing Read More »
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
Trail build report: 7th Dec 2008 – South side continued Read More »
