The temperature gauge in my car was showing minus 4.5 degrees C as I drove round Cirencester at 8:15am on Saturday morning. It was cold and it was dry. Cold and dry doesn’t feel as cold without dry. There was a frost but the ground wasn’t frozen. Streaming sunlight had fixed that. Brandon Hire dropped […]
Trail build report: Sat 14th Jan 2012, Triangle surfacing 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 »
When we planned this day we decided that we didn’t want to tire ourselves out before a club ride. We’ve done that before and ended up being really weak on a ride. Usually only those who turn up for build days appreciate how physically demanding it can be. As usual we ended up setting ourselves
Trail build report: Sat 26th March 2011 Read More »
We’re going to be working on fixing Piper’s hill. That’s the top right section in the map above. Some of it has already been fixed. Remaining muddy bits will be filled in with rubble and surfaced with chippings. We’ll have the power barrow on hand to remove the need for pushing wheel barrows around. We
Build day March #2 Read More »
We’re going to be working on fixing Piper’s hill. That’s the top right section in the map above. Some of it has already been fixed. Remaining muddy bits will be filled in with rubble and surfaced with chippings. We’ll have the power barrow on hand to remove the need for pushing wheel barrows around. We
Build day March #1 Read More »
We’ll be surfacing remaining muddy sections of trail (yellow and blue lines in map above). We might also being doing some work cutting out new trail. We’ll have the power barrow on site so we won’t be wasting effort pushing barrows around (unless you want to). We meet in the car park at 10am. If
Build day February #4 Read More »
We’ll be surfacing remaining muddy sections of trail (yellow and blue lines in map above). We might also being doing some work cutting out new trail. We’ll have the power barrow on site so we won’t be wasting effort pushing barrows around (unless you want to). We meet in the car park at 10am. If
Build day February #3 Read More »
We’ll be surfacing remaining muddy sections of trail (yellow and blue lines in map above). We’ll have the power barrow on site so we won’t be wasting effort pushing barrows around (unless you want to). We meet in the car park at 10am. If you arrive after that then take a walk round the trail.
Build day February #2 Read More »
We’ll be surfacing remaining muddy sections of trail (yellow and blue lines in map above). We’ll have the power barrow on site so we won’t be wasting effort pushing barrows around (unless you want to). We meet in the car park at 10am. If you arrive after that then take a walk round the trail.
Build day February #1 Read More »
The day was a record day for volunteers! Phil reports that the following were there: 1 – Chris Hopkinson 2 – Richard 1 3 – Richard 2 4 – Jez 5 – Nigel Gregson 6 – Sharon Gregson 7 – Sharon Yeates 8 – Gary Yeates 9 – Lee Wright 10 – Jenny Wright 11
Trail build report: Sun 9th Jan 2011 Read More »
