road gap 15ft (in distance)any way

[sxtrailrider95]

me doing the road gap at marypeters are i think thats were it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrKq0G2GMnw

you cant appreciate how big it actully is well to me any way

[StiofÁn]

Ive hit that road gap and can honestly say, its big enough already!

Well done for hitting it young lad, balls 'a steal i tell ya,

Nice one ;)

Ill try and get a vid up 2moro.

[stu01]

Go on, I haven't had the balls to hit that yet

[sxtrailrider95]

i craped my self the first time i did it

[sxtrailrider95]

how big would that be

[downhilldude]

yea nice one lad. Now i have to give it a go. lol

[sxtrailrider95]

yea nice one lad. Now i have to give it a go. lol

put the other video of me doing it of ur phone

[downhilldude]

put our videos of your camera on youtube

[downhilldude]

i was telling him not to hit it because i was thinking he might take out a tree. i said don't do it and he give me a mouth full of stick i can't say this enough fair play lad because that is a huge jump.

[sxtrailrider95]

i no my limits i have none lol but really if i think i can do it then ill try it

[sxtrailrider95]

jesus thats bug its just sinking in there now lol

[sxtrailrider95]

how high would i be getting

[tinkerhil]

You hit that pretty well , nice one..

[downhilldude]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUprFyi1HEI



it's a better angle

[sxtrailrider95]

yea you can see it better

[Lwatson]

Fair play to you dude, i definatly had to think twice before hitting it!
I say get the shovels out and get digging, there is potential for bigger on down the path a bit ;)

[barry_kellett99]

Kids today eh - no concept of pain or what?

Impressive.

[sxtrailrider95]

lol

[downhilldude]

anyone going to tully or scalp this and next weekend as i am going to stay in my caravan in tully and i am going to take a run up to scalp and was wondering was anyone there. cheers

[downhilldude]

This is my first big whip what yous think.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTkMFyEdPyg

[sxtrailrider95]

haha slowmo

[Speedfreak]

The whip is good DHD, you're getting it right and it will only get better...just don't ask if you should land with your front or back wheel first! lol :rolleyes:

That jump is impressive too! Get busy building bigger ones now! ;)

[sxtrailrider95]

is anyone at belvoir on saturday or sunday

[downhilldude]

yea me tomorrow. calling in on way to my grans

[downhilldude]

heard you were looking forks for cheap i will take £10 ovno

[sxtrailrider95]

your funny jonny go away

[Steeno]

nice gap, nice style too!!

[downhilldude]

your funny jonny go away....no no no
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[sxtrailrider95]

nice gap, nice style too!!

thanks lad o eye i could be out at belvoir next saturday and will be this saturday maby this sunday aswell;)

[StiofÁn]

Hey,


Im finally getting round to showing the vid of me hitting it. :)

The road gap in this short movie of various jumps and drops. Just chucked together, nothing special :rolleyes:

Notice how much i over hit it lol.....pffff

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/52066/

[mattmcafee]

!nice!

[sxtrailrider95]

nice you like landed half way dow hill lol

[sxtrailrider95]

!nice!

thanks man

[StiofÁn]

nice you like landed half way dow hill lol


21 foot :D

[sxtrailrider95]

no way really

[sxtrailrider95]

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/64101/
better quality:D

[sxtrailrider95]

video took today

[trailfox]

looks good sxtr! Youre taking the landing much better now.. Looks a bit over 15' to me, the takeoff's before the edge of the bank isnt it?
keep it up!

[monty]

Where is this!!!!!?
Is it MP's?

[sxtrailrider95]

i could show you tomarrow if you like will you be out

[sxtrailrider95]

looks good sxtr! Youre taking the landing much better now.. Looks a bit over 15' to me, the takeoff's before the edge of the bank isnt it?
keep it up!

yea its just behind the tree

[monty]

i could show you tomarrow if you like will you be out

lol, I'll not be out tomorrow.. but even if it was.. I wouldn't know what forest to go to caus I still don't know where it is! :D

Nice jumping btw :)

[sxtrailrider95]

its at mary peters do you no the drops well the big hill behind them ther a wee concrete go down the path and you will see it landing hill you cant miss it

[sxtrailrider95]

will any one be at cavehill tomarrow

[gaulty]

yep we will

[sxtrailrider95]

http://file046b.bebo.com/15/original/2009/03/08/20/3416717112a10290784139o.jpg

are mini north shore drop

[sxtrailrider95]

http://file046b.bebo.com/15/original/2009/03/08/20/3416717112a10290784368o.jpg

jump and landing ramp

http://file046b.bebo.com/15/original/2009/03/08/20/3416717112a10290784256o.jpg

me doing it

[thetrailbuilder]

what the hell, thats shocking, build proply guys

[sxtrailrider95]

it was just an experiment to see if wee could we had no tools just hand and stiks

[Lwatson]

:banghead: that really is an accident waiting to happen.

If your gunna do something, do it right. Bring a saw aswell. Good on use for doing a bitta digging, in future; keep it it dirt, that just doesn't look safe. IMO I don't see the point in your 'north shore'. Not only is it on a bit of trail that I ride on a regular basis it is also a huge eye-sore. There's plenty of space in that area to build your own lines and jumps.

[downhilldude]

it was very secure that was only when it was geting built we coverd it in dirt alot of dirt and it is really secure. next week we will bring a shouvle and do away with the logs and just use dirt.

[jimjam]

Boys for **** sake. That's not good enough. Something's gonna have to be done about that.

[downhilldude]

it's away now that was back this morning. it is just a step down now

[jimjam]

Suddenly a lot of things are starting to make sense. So it is completely gone now?

[downhilldude]

kind of. but the logs will be lifted away later on this week and any mess cleaned up. sorry to of caused and annoynce. it was us just haveing a bit of harmless fun. sorry

[sxtrailrider95]

sorry lads just a bit of fun like

[jimjam]

kind of. but the logs will be lifted away later on this week and any mess cleaned up. sorry to of caused and annoynce. it was us just haveing a bit of harmless fun. sorry

Look, well done for trying. There is no harm in getting out there and getting your hands dirty - if more people did it, we'd have more places to ride. Most of us are guilty of not doing enough.

But there are a lot of things you need to take into consideration before you throw something like that up.

If you're going to build something first of all learn how to build. If something isnt reasonably solid then it's dangerous. Also you need to be pretty sure what you're building is actually better than what was there before, last summer we were hitting that wee drop on hardtails and it seemed fined to me.

Your best bet is to ask some of the older guys you ride with what they think before you go doing any damage. If somethings worth building then it's worth taking the time to give it serious thought, ask for input from more experienced riders, then build it to last. It's a learning process.

If you build something ugly, dangerous or out of place then you are going to piss off a lot of people ( I know, I know). Loads of people ride around there and within reason, you want to try and be sensitive to everyones needs, and at the same time you need to try to make the trails look better - not worse.

At the minute there are loads of trails around belvoir which could benefit from general maintenance as opposed to big ugly jumps being built - maybe you could start with that?

[downhilldude]

ok thanks for understanding we will get it all took away asap. + we have been cleaning up some of the trails around belvor takeing away all the sludge ect. see just left to that there is a drop well we made a landing ramp and there was a couple of guys today who thoght it was very neat.

[thetrailbuilder]

stuff like that attracts bad men with laws and regulations that spoil everyone elses fun

[downhilldude]

you mean as in foresty commision. or drugies...ps who keeps wrecking the pond gap jump

[sxtrailrider95]

http://file048b.bebo.com/1/original/2009/03/08/22/3416717112a10292072595o.jpg

thats the drop with the landin ramp now thats not so bad is it

[jimjam]

you mean as in foresty commision. or drugies...ps who keeps wrecking the pond gap jump

He means the forestry commission more or less.



.ps who keeps wrecking the pond gap jump

How should we know? I take it you guys rebuilt it after the fs wrecked it? Anyway...... putting a 7 foot log across the top of a two foot take off looks completely stupid. So does building anything with pallets. Thats the kind of thing that attracts negative attention from walkers, forestry commission and other bikers.




thats the drop with the landin ramp now thats not so bad is it

It's impossible to tell. To me it looks like the lip which used to there is gone now, is that right?

[Lwatson]

you mean as in foresty commision. or drugies...ps who keeps wrecking the pond gap jump

I hate those drugies with there laws and regulations :confused:

[sxtrailrider95]

jj we did not touch the pound gap wee went down there to day and it is ****ed its all wonkey and its all being knocked down

[jimjam]

Well you'll probably never ever know who wrecks what. All you can do is try to build things that blend in, look natural and are solidly constructed.

[downhilldude]

the drop there in the picture is awsome with the landing ramp really nice landing.

[TrixR4kidz]

Building good features is like making a good meal. The first taste is with the eye.

Build them pretty and build them strong, and as said before - try to make them blend in. If it looks like it has been there for a while, it's far less likely to attract unwanted attention.

Good work on getting your hands dirty fellas.

Maybe you could build a new feature rather than tarting up* existing ones?



* there is currently no word in the english vocabulary to describe what I really mean here. ;)

[Lwatson]

http://file048b.bebo.com/1/original/2009/03/08/22/3416717112a10292072595o.jpg

thats the drop with the landin ramp now thats not so bad is it



lies???

[sxtrailrider95]

how is it liea wee built the landing ramp

[Dee205]

I hate those drugies with there laws and regulations :confused:

Spat my tea out to avoid choaking when I was reading this!

LOL!

[Analog]

Next time you build something thats so **** its worth having a look at make sure you clean up after yourself , you guys have made a right ****ing mess of the place if i wanted to order some timber id take a run down that trail...

[stu01]

The trail through the house is really dodgy now, a landing has been built in an attempt to make another step down to the left of the original one. Unfortunatley its right in the middle of the line that most people would take through there, it needs flattened.

[jimjam]

The trail through the house is really dodgy now, a landing has been built in an attempt to make another step down to the left of the original one. Unfortunatley its right in the middle of the line that most people would take through there, it needs flattened.

I flattened it last night. Instead of actually riding my bike like I set out to do. I took away the landing for the completely stupid drop and I used it to fill in the hole at the top of the bank (to the right of that centre tree) which was slap bang in the middle of a run in to three trails.

I also used the remainder of it to try and fill in the hole (which is not in that picture) which is about 3ft wide and roughly a foot deep and right beside the landing. I mean right beside it. It's not completely filled yet.

I havent cleared the scrap metal or logs which have mysteriously appeared there, which are obviously part of sxtrailrider and downhilldudes "mini north shore drop". It seems they couldnt be bothered to put them back wherever they found them, instead they just left them lying on the trail.

I've also not been able to do anything about all the other holes they've dug in and around that area. Looks like they were thoughtful enough to leave litter lying around too.

[stu01]

I also used the remainder of it to try and fill in the hole (which is not in that picture) which is about 3ft wide and roughly a foot deep and right beside the landing. I mean right beside it. It's not completely filled yet.


lol, yeah I saw that. You heading out tonight?

[sxtrailrider95]

wee left no litter

[downhilldude]

litter wise up. ask sxtr i hate people who leave litter.