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UPDATE: Due do all the work being focused lower down the trail, the top section was in need of a refurbishment, as well as a bit of tweaking in a couple of berms, i've been putting in drainage pipes here and there up top too. The trail is 90% rideable now, with only the final section still in progress. Now that it is all linked up, Iv'e been able to ride and adjust any sections that don't feel perfectly flowy :biggrin1:
Cut this berm steeper so I can really lean in to it now
ORIGINAL POST:
So over the past year or so i've had the opportunity to have a few weekend's work with excavators, and decided to put in a few jumps and a flowy jump trail sort of thing around my backyard. I'm lucky enough to own good land to do this on, and plan to continue building as much cool new stuff as possible. The project is still very much a work in progress, with plenty more testing and re-shaping to be done before it's prime. I have most of a downhill track that ill post up once finished too. Here's what i've got so far:
Our first digger to play with for a weekend
First little switch berm jump, with the straighter line not quite finished in this shot.
Small jump into right hander...
Followed by a couple of rollers then a left handed hip jump (not complete in this photo but done now)
A bit more work was done with the little 1.4t cat, but second time round things got a bit more serious with our tool choice
The last jump of a separate line of jumps just built and looking mint.
The separate line of three jumps, great for a quick afternoon sesh, only meters from the back door
Back to the longer trail, things looking much more serious with the 5 tonne digger. This is looking down along a straight of freshly pushed up tabletop, rollers and doubles.
Nice lil' double
Four smaller rollers, designed to be jumped in creative ways
Into a long fast berm
Followed by a smooth step down into double into a huge left hander berm.
Looking back up at the final part of that berm
And from there it will go down over two more rollers and into a final jump. Downhill track is a bit further from home (like a 5 minute walk to the start of the track), and is mostly complete except for a few sections that are being improved. Its only a short track, maybe 2 minutes, as i'm limited by hill size, but it's steep and fun so I cant complain.
UPDATE: Due do all the work being focused lower down the trail, the top section was in need of a refurbishment, as well as a bit of tweaking in a couple of berms, i've been putting in drainage pipes here and there up top too. The trail is 90% rideable now, with only the final section still in progress. Now that it is all linked up, Iv'e been able to ride and adjust any sections that don't feel perfectly flowy :biggrin1:
Cut this berm steeper so I can really lean in to it now
ORIGINAL POST:
So over the past year or so i've had the opportunity to have a few weekend's work with excavators, and decided to put in a few jumps and a flowy jump trail sort of thing around my backyard. I'm lucky enough to own good land to do this on, and plan to continue building as much cool new stuff as possible. The project is still very much a work in progress, with plenty more testing and re-shaping to be done before it's prime. I have most of a downhill track that ill post up once finished too. Here's what i've got so far:
Our first digger to play with for a weekend
First little switch berm jump, with the straighter line not quite finished in this shot.
Small jump into right hander...
Followed by a couple of rollers then a left handed hip jump (not complete in this photo but done now)
A bit more work was done with the little 1.4t cat, but second time round things got a bit more serious with our tool choice
The last jump of a separate line of jumps just built and looking mint.
The separate line of three jumps, great for a quick afternoon sesh, only meters from the back door
Back to the longer trail, things looking much more serious with the 5 tonne digger. This is looking down along a straight of freshly pushed up tabletop, rollers and doubles.
Nice lil' double
Four smaller rollers, designed to be jumped in creative ways
Into a long fast berm
Followed by a smooth step down into double into a huge left hander berm.
Looking back up at the final part of that berm
And from there it will go down over two more rollers and into a final jump. Downhill track is a bit further from home (like a 5 minute walk to the start of the track), and is mostly complete except for a few sections that are being improved. Its only a short track, maybe 2 minutes, as i'm limited by hill size, but it's steep and fun so I cant complain.
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