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(Previously) Wandering amongst the mountains of New Zealand in search of cheese

Trailbuilding at Haven mtb park

Went over to the Banks Peninsular yesterday to help out on a trail building day at Haven Mtb Park. Stopped at the Blue Duck Cafe on the way and got the most ridiculous sized BLT bagel I've ever seen. Taller than a burger from Gourmet Burger Kitchen! Great news. So after that I drove off up into the backcountry(ish) and up to where they're building the trails. Another incredible spot - bit like Wales really. After a quick guided tour, got started shifting rocks around then digging out one of the corners. Big turn-out for them today, with 21 people doing bits here and there. After lunch, 3 of us got cracking on a second corner, pretty much starting from scratch. Well, I'll leave the photos to tell the rest. Definitely a lot of satisfaction in riding stuff you've had a part in building Smile. Really am feeling the burn today though - aching all over, blisters, bruises. love it.

View from Haven MTB Park

 Berm 2 - marking out Berm 2 - Rock wall

Berm 2 - End of Day Berm 1 complete

Comments

 

The King said:

Good work le Sloth it's about time you gave something back to those trails!

I think you may have got the angles wrong on that corner though!

Manual labour + Sloth = Check your answer please ;-)

May 20, 2007 10:51 AM
 

le_sloth said:

manual labour + sloth + 2 days later = even more pain!

Dan Black might be needed up there to check the angles then. Don't go today though, it's getting 120km/h winds. Just hope we compacted it all down enough!

May 20, 2007 9:54 PM
 

Dan Black said:

Yes, your eathworks cut/fill operation appears to be sound. Please ensure that where the vehicle speed is likely to exceed 14mph a super-elevation of 2.5% is achieved. Remember the spiral transition curves formula:

          3             7              11

         s             s              s

  y = --------- - ------------ + ---------------

      6 * R * L          3   3            5   5

                  336 * R * L    42240 * R * L

May 21, 2007 8:03 AM
 

le_sloth said:

yes of course - that's exactly the point i was trying to get across, but they just couldn't agree on the correct formula to apply. Next time we'll refer to http://www.google.com/patents?id=Ejh4AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=spiral+transition+curves+formula#PPP1,M1

May 21, 2007 8:13 AM
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