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May 21, 2007

Warning about Logging Near the windmill near Pitch hill.

There has been a near miss today at the logging site between Winterfold and Pitch Hill. A mountain biker was litterally 8 inches from death in the path of a falling tree. Brown pants all round. The machine operators do not have eyes in the backs of their heads, and although the normal warning signs for logging are in place, and apparently these meet the statutory requirements, bikers are still riding through.

Please keep out of this area until felling is complete. It is being clear-felled, apart from deciduous specimen trees.

The first part of Xmas Pud / Claw Hammer goes through this area, before it crosses the road. The site is the whole triangle contained by the track between the Windmill Car Park and the Judges Seat car park to the south, and the two converging roads north from these car parks.

Image produced from Ordnance Survey's Get-a-map service.       
      Image reproduced with permission of Ordnance Survey and
      Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.

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May 15, 2007

Blimey

Take a look at this story about a man whose head was run over by a truck. Looks like a Giro saved this bloke's life.

May 14, 2007

Build Day 13th May.

A few hardy souls braved the weather to continue building on the latest extension to Summer Lightning. The end of the new trail which drops onto "the tramway" has more or less been finished. The plan was to then go back to the top and work on the begining, but at this point the rain left us with little enthusiasm to continue!

However, the trail is rideable and is now has signs that will point you in the direction of the trail. Thanks to the few people who stopped by and helped us on a miserable day weather wise and to the Lady on the rocky mountain bike who has come along to build days a few times and I don't think we know the name of!

May 08, 2007

NIce dry trails


China Pig
Originally uploaded by bent udder.
...did I mention the build day this Sunday? then we could have even more nice trails to ride...
My Photo

BKB - the closed bits

  • Lower part of trail blocked
    Here's some pics showing BKB - and the closed parts of the trail. Hurtwood Control have basically taken action because of the disruption the old end of the trail caused to the next door neighours, who were getting a little tired of hearing 'CLEAR!' yelled outside their bedroom window from 7am on Saturday and Sunday mornings. They were very nice about it, by the way, and are real supporters of Hurtwood. The bonus? we get to put in lots of new bits of trail, and increase the length of BKB by a high margin in the process.

Dorking West

  • Pict0186
    The new pump track at Dorking West is pretty much there - it just needs a little bit of shaping and cleaning, and it's good to go. props to oli at Head for the Hills for all the work in the background recently.

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