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| Ben03 |
Hurst wood.I'd heard something to do with some building going on at Hurst wood. Despite the natural contours there being good the Woodland Trust are not towards biking!!!We tried to build a gap there over a year ago, only moving a few logs from one pile to another to resemble a take-off and when we got back there was a notice with a crime number to report to 
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| abruce |
I remember last summer like 3 guys built some really nice jumps and a drop-off their (i've never acctually seen so much mud shifted by guys just with spades, seriously)
But they just got bulldozed... There could be some really nice lines through their, but its just too small and open... Still a few places around TWells with potential though (Hargate forest, the warren) |
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| Ben03 |
Should maybe organise a dig day at one of these places during the summer. We need more stuff to ride locally. (Where's hargate?) | ||
| Heffers |
count me in if you do that...assuming i'n not at work and can afford the train. | ||
| abruce |
Hargate and the Warren are both right on the south side of TWells... Hargate is just off Broadwater Down road....theirs this one section *back in the days* where i used to have like a 1 mile long DH course.... and that stayed their for about 2 years, then pikeys graffitied the place and the woodland trust just assumed it must be something to do with the bikers, so had them bulldozed...
sure they've got over that now though 
I was thinking making a little singletrack training circuit there soon.. but whatever. I'm always on the lookout for good woods though... |
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| JAW |
yeah secret trails indeed... they won't be secret for long; all it takes is one wrong kid to go there and the whole of T Wells will know!
How about rebuilding that DH course or something similar as opposed to a singletrack loop? |
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| abruce |
well.. they seem pretty secret... i can't find 'em and i thaught i knew every wood in TWells inside out....
aha but a singletrack circuit would blatently be so much more fun! 
naa, i'd be up for re-building the track there acctually.... Here's two pics from what it was like their... (obviose phone-camera quality!) http://file009a.bebo.com/large/20...0666011a1182630532b977672417l.jpg http://file009a.bebo.com/large/20...20666011a653237611b707941169l.jpg |
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| JAW |
looks ok! I wouldn't mind doing singletrack but it would take so much longer, and if we did it would have to have a massive downhill section (and not much up!) | ||
| adam T |
hargate is pretty good - me and my friend rob found a hip to smooth tranny there  - we built a big lip and sent it!! - was pretty fun!
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| Ben03 |
Sounds good. Do much of the public go there? Looks like a good venue to build stuff though. | ||
| JAW |
Take me there! |
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| abruce |
Hargate: http://www.wt-woods.org.uk/hargateforest/map.asp
It's pretty busy with dog walkers cause it's covered in big paths.. but theirs loadsa flowing paths down in wooded areas where the public dousn't go and they're covered in wood from tree felling... I only just rescued my saw and spades from their last saturday (bloody rusty) |
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| JAW |
ah well you can never really avoid the pesky dog walkers. cheers for the map BTW. | ||
| Ben03 |
Visited Hurst wood the other day and came across a downhill run. Is based on one of the existing paths on the top sections, with a newer cut lower section complete with rock garden. Is great to see stuff being built. Anyone know about it as to who built it and when it was done? Looks like a lot of work went into it 
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