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Rob and I went down Stonecroft Trails Saturday to see how they were looking. They didn't look too bad, infact the 1st looked fine. The 2nd's takeoff looked a bit nackered but the landing was ok. We had a few goes and the 2nd's takeoff was indeed riding as bad as it looked giving a bit of as nasty kick if you went over the creator to the left hand side.

We had the tools so we decided to do a bit of digging to sort them out. The dry weather left the digging pits looking cracked and dusty. I wasn't very optimistic as to how far we'd get. Luckerly it turned out that this was only the surface, the dirt underneath in both main current pits was a nice damp clay/soil mix. Within about 5-10mins we had about 10 barrow loads. Most of it went onto the 2nd's takeoff the last 3 or so spare barrows went onto the 1st's landing and in the middle of the two to smooth out any cracks. The damp dirt packed nicely. Bull's new spade is brilliant to work with.

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Then we rode 'um:










We then had a competition to see who could pull the stupidest face over the trails... honest :wink:



Rob won I think :lol:

Hopefully now they are riding nice and it's easy to dig, we can continue to build 'um up nice n big for the summer.

Cheers to Bull for the pics. He was riding well, shame there is none of him.

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Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:55 pm
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yea, they were riding well nice, we'll have to have a bit of a seshon doiwn there next weekend, those pics are good bull, cheers for that.

my face is fucked up in the last one lol

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Do you fancy doing some building this weekend i wanna build 'um up big and was thinking about putting a third in mabey?

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yea, mebe, ill see whats happenn this weekend and give u a ring friday


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Should be riding there this evening if i get my ass in gear and get home before dark.

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Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:40 pm
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Was a good ride, after Barney left me n Rob did loads of digging and loaded it all onto the 1st's landing. It's now a stepup and should give you more speed for the 2nd. We plan to build up the 2nds landing and hopefully the take off too on Sunday.

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Me and Bull went down there Sunday. I had a proper go on the 1st and it's now riding well nice. So much so that the 2nd can be overshot if you are too smooth. That needed sorting so we set about digging for the 2nds landing we got a fair amount of loads on there. It's now better and steaper than before but i feel it still needs more work to set the gap further back. Should be easily solved by more digging.

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Hehe I bought another good shovel today so digging speed can be further increased lol.

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Nice :D, did you look at new axes?

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Yeah i tried to find some in Focus but they didnt have any. Garden centre is probs the place to look.

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