my work in progress near coffs...

[asdf]

hey im new here, kinda just got into dh looks interesting... i mainly ride moto's and have a ...ill call it semi decent bike, but downhill is slowly grabbing my attention. any way i missed coramba as i had to work on sunday (fkn government is ripping me off a long week end on a technicality...) so i thought i'de do somthing constructive on my weekend.

episode 1 :the drain

okaythe pictures dont do justice to how steep this is but its fairly steep and it had a 30cm rut down the hole thing i had to fill in...

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/bottom.jpg
^^ ive gotta see where im at b4 i shape the berm at the bottom right...

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/berm%201.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/3%20berms.jpg
^^ you cant really see it but theres 3 berms that make it wind down

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/berm%202.jpg
^^ ive gotta make it bigger and shape it more but its a rough cut for now

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/its%20actually%20steep.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/down%20down%20down.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/looking%20down.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/looking%20up.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/dingo.jpg
^^ where its at :P in the middle of nowhere

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/tools.jpg
^^ that bow saw was the best $9 ive ever spent...

as you can see that only represents about 600m of track i have about 1km+ planned for this and the first part is an old track that hasnt been used for few years the rest of the track will have to be cut out of the scrub from scratch... alot of hard work:( but hopfully will pay off not to far out of town shuttle will be easy and some nice terrain

stay tunned for more:D

[Venciferus]

Lookin' really good, nice flowy track. (Reminds me of the riverbed ride, at Barjarg)

EDIT:

Why does every post about a track have someone say "i hope its legal". Like fair enough, but the more i see people writing this its starting to lose it effectivness. I'm going to make bold statement here, but most people on here have ridden on illegal tracks? Kind of hypocritical. I'm sure you wouldn't ride it if you lived near by, because it might be illegal and all? I'm over these comments. If you dont ride on illegal tracks.. then sure.. go ahead and make that comment, otherwise... get off your high horse.

I'm off my "high horse" now, thinking about it I do ride illegal tracks and therefore can't say shit all about it. Lots of tracks are illegal and few are legal, it all adds up, good and bad.

[terry smith]

looks good, should be good when its done

great work for getting of ur arse and doing something ;)

[Plow King]

Looks the goods. I wouldn't give the location of it away.

[asdf]

im guessing that 95% of tracks that are made on state forest land (whole differant issue for national parks) start off this way and only get the aproval when ppl want to hold an event on the track, around coffs there are tons of cut single track for moto's and if ppl wanted to hold an event on it i dont think council would mind as long as coffs harbour is promoted in the proccess.

[S.]

Nice work, that looks like WICKED fun to ride. Just got a tip for that first pic though - if you want to keep it free of ruts (because it does look very steep even in the pic), I'd highly recommend putting a waterbar in, diagonally across the track, somewhere near the top of it (maybe a foot or so from where you first drop into it) to drain water sideways, away from the track. This will stop water being channeled down the track and help prevent those huge rain ruts you sometimes get. In addition to being more fun to ride, it means you won't have to do as much maintenance in future either!

Good stuff anyway, that does look like heaps of fun. Keep it up!

[sockman]

best first post evar!!!!

if im ever in the area im so pming you and im sooo going riding with you!!!!

how many hours would you estimate you have put in so far?

[stp1 boy]

that looks like its gunna be a sik track i wish i lived near there.
i have nothing like that near me :)

[Binaural]

There's been a number of great first posts lately but this takes the cake. That looks like a great track you are building there, and I recall well just how perfect the soil around Coffs is for building trails on. Make sure you don't make the mistake of making it too smooth though, it's good to leave some awkward sections in your track to slow people down and to spice it up .

Also, that picture that shows where you have cut through a natural rise in the trail - maybe consider using that as a lip that needs you to throw your bike sideways in the air to make the following berm? Those are always heaps of fun ;)

[rickazz]

looks like its shaping out to be a wicked track nice smooth and flowy.

[Skywalker]

Hmmmm, I hope it's legal. Otherwise lookin' good, kind of a flow track.

Why does every post about a track have someone say "i hope its legal". Like fair enough, but the more i see people writing this its starting to lose it effectivness. I'm going to make bold statement here, but most people on here have ridden on illegal tracks? Kind of hypocritical. I'm sure you wouldn't ride it if you lived near by, because it might be illegal and all? I'm over these comments. If you dont ride on illegal tracks.. then sure.. go ahead and make that comment, otherwise... get off your high horse.

[bigkevthumper]

hay i was just wondering where abouts exactly is it as i live like ten minutes just out of coffs and there is only one good track to ride here in coffs (mt coramba ) and its about time that we get another good track in coffs
P.S it is a prity good looking track, good work :)

[hubbie]

wow looks amazing! the scenery along it is beautiful, and it's nice and shaded for summer

[Sjman]

sweet looking track. let me know and ill come help you build. keen to have a ride aswell

[Stay-Ghoul]

Looks awesome keep up the good work, nice scenery too. I wish I lived in an area like that :(

[soil sampler]

awsome trail. can u come and build one like that for me. if im ever in the area ill hit that

[Enoch]

Stop posting useless comments in dead threads

[hardinge915]

Stop posting useless comments in dead threads
It's hardly dead, this thread will be used of UPDATES on his track.

Its an awsome looking track mate, keep up the good work!

[Enoch]

I agree its an awesome track, but if you look at soil samplers posts you might agree with what i am saying. But i dont want to start an arguement.
Cheers

[asdf]

Okay update time!

episode 2: the amputation.

okay so as i said in my first post i had to hack the rest out by hand coz the part in the previous pixs were an over gronw logging trail.

i love a good tight trail, dont really enjoy making them but the end product is prity good youll see in theese pics that the trail isnt really defined mainly coz its been unridden.. (is that a word?) this track is narrow bit windy in some parts the soil is really loamy and keeps the nice downhill flow

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/b4drop.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/smalldrop.jpg
^^ not that big but its straight in to a corner

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/track1.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/track2.jpg
^^ spent about 20 minutes hacking a stump out...i had to cut down some tree's....

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/track3.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/track4.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/track5.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/track8.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/track6.jpg

http://home.exetel.com.au/z3d/track7.jpg

had a good run with the weather....was pissing down in town then its layed off for the 4 hours i was out there.... was too cold, had to dodge falling branches from wind and i got freaked out by this bird making weird sounds :/ so i went home.

hope you guys enjoy

[Nobi Wan]

Again that track is lookin sweet as mate !! still got a bit of work to do but i bet you are liking the way its coming along ! wish i lived up around there to come n help u out ! well done mate and keep at it... doin a good job!:cool:

[hubbie]

you've done a great job. I really wish i had some land like that i could work on!

[hardinge915]

What can you say, words cant really explain it... its looking AWSOME! I bet you can't wait to give it a full run!