Nice short post, pump track sesh thursday from around 5, list of people attending is growing so make sure you get there. Would be nice to see some people that have been off the bike for a while (Nicky). I will around all afternoon so let me know what your plans are. Pump track is nice and dry and running fast so make sure you bring your hailtails and i will bring the big pump down so we can get some high pressures going. There is some new stuff, allot if you have not been down for a while. So make sure you dont miss out. We should be able to get a good few hours in before it gets dark.

This is a oldish picture of Tim from No cycling railing the far berm, this berm has since increased in size making it even more fun. Please let me know if you can make it. List so far is Jeff, Shane, Jonny, Myself, Matt , Ben Armit and Nicky and i have asked a couple of other people so dont miss out

Okay after this snow has past does anyone fancy going out for a ride on monday or tuesday of next week. Just think this time last year it was the driest march for years shocking. I have spoken to a couple of people about riding on Monday (depending on the weather) ,Tuesday if not so if you are free let us know.

In other news

• BMX spraying guide, As most of you will know i recently bought an bmx (second hand). I thought to make it a bit more special i would re-spray it. As a helpful guide to anyone else interested in spraying there frames i thought i would write a short guide of the steps and helpfull hints so look out for that in a couple of days. Shane is also going to respray his hardtail so we should have some more pictures to add in the following weeks.
• Helmet camera, Shane is in the process of buying a helmet camera which when up and running will allow us to gets some good quality video footage to add to the “Tracks Page”. To give a better impression of the different tracks around.
• Bamford Pump track, I have been down there digging a fair bit the last couple of days so there is some new stuff to test your skills on. But can i please ask that you keep noise to a minimum and make sure you pick up any litter.

(please note not full screen as only preview )

Further update Right got the frame sprayed and put everything back together so this is what it looks like now. I have got some crank arms, just waiting on an axle so i can put them on. Plus i have ordered some Fit (bike make) stickers to put on it so everyone knows who made it. Would be nice to know what everyone thinks to the colours, so please let me know.

“Joes place, 10:30 ish

This Sunday…

Bring a spade!”
DHP

• Any takers?

We had a successful dig day at Joe’s on Saturday, with Joe, Jonny and myself (Jeff) present. Joe had already done the first roller line and the majority of the berm. The first thing I noticed about the rollers was they were pretty big, twice the size of the ones at the Bamford Pump Track, also the track slopes slightly down into the first berm, meaning you can just roll into the first berm without much effort if you want to.

The berm is a little different to anything I’ve seen or ridden before, the down slope from the roller is quite long before the berm starts to curve, its fairly tight with a high wall and steep angle on the wall. The exit is the interesting part, a metre high large roller. It took some time to perfect the roller position, angles, and size, and even more time to perfect riding it. The combination of speed tightness and the exit roller means the berm has real kick to it, sucking you in and spitting you out where you don’t expect to be. If you don’t get you line right you end up shooting out the berm and going of the right side of the roller, or if you don’t have the speed to make it to the summit you have to jump off you’re bike and back to ground level. O and braking cos you’re scared would be a mistake too.

After we had finished digging for the day Jonny headed home and Joe and I pushed up the hill for some razzin ‘n shootin. I set up my flash on the extension cable and Joe sent the loose bracken flying.

As it got darker I noticed the sky was looking good with dark clouds and some slightly pink sky in between, after a bit of fiddling with the flash brightness and shutter speed I had the camera set to get the nice sky in the shot too.

I decided to go a bit controversial and keep the flash burst in shot, I think it adds something.
I threw the wide angle lens into the fray later on and then with the setup good we swapped over and got some ones of me looking quite good for a change (the pictures and riding, not me ).

When we came back down the hill we stopped at the rocky track for some more shooting, it was pretty much dark by time I’d set up, so Joe had to stop as soon as the flash fired and blinded him.

Thanks to Joe’s mum for the egg and bacon cobs, not just cos digging is hungry work, but more for the opportunity to see Joe make the Text Book mistake when eating an egg cob… again.

I doubt it will be long ’til there’s another dig day, so make sure you get yowr ass to the next one, in the mean time check out the progress in the Image Gallery.

08-02-23 Joes Dig Day JK+Joe+Jonny, 28 Pictures

Pump track is coming along nicely…
Just need a few people to come lend a hand on the 23rd if people are around??

Theres some pics over on DHP of the progress so far!

Bring shovels, spades, mattocks and biceps.

Cheers, Joe

Event Gone – Write up here.