Singletrack Mountain Bike Magazine

1. Mugboo - Member

   Hi peeps, its 2010 and the weathers been pretty crap. How about coming up to Stainburn and helping us finish the Descent Line Extension.

   Last January we started with a bang and got a line brashed and partialy rocked, we had something like 25 diggers, as the year went on numbers dwindled and the project stalled..

   Staiburn has lots of challenges to offer but before we can add anything new we need to finish this project, come along, give us an hour or two or stay all day, work your nuts off or stand round leaning on your shovel talking bikes, we don't care as long as you turn up!!

   There's a link below, thanks for looking - Jason

   http://singletraction.frankencrank.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3047

   Posted 7 months ago #
2. luke.ellis - Member

   Hi Mugboo,

   could you let me know which dates & days the dig days are on. I have been to Stainburn a number of times and would like to put a little bit back in.

   Posted 7 months ago #
3. Chase - Member

   Dig day is always the first sunday of every month. Next one is on the 7th Feb. It is usual to meet in the main car park about 9.45 with a view to get cracking for 10.00am.

   Seriously, any time offered is appreciated. Stainburn is an amazing place to ride, but with the small regualar crew of trailbuilders we only have limited resources.

   Posted 7 months ago #
4. luke.ellis - Member

   excellent! i have no plans as yet so i will be there spade at the ready!

   Posted 7 months ago #
5. Cheeky Monkey - Member

   Good man.

   Decent boots and work gloves are well worth it as well as enough clothing to keep you warm and dry-ish if we're in the open and it mizzles. A brew and some bait help keep body and soul together.

   There's no foul if you dig for half a day and then ride if your time and opportunities are limited. Better something (anything!) than nothing.

   "Main Car Park" is the Norwood Edge one (with a standard FC style light and dark green signboard). It's off the B6451 Pateley Bridge Road about 1 km north after you've crossed the Lindley Wood Reservoir. Few miles before the Sunn Inn. Car park is here:

   http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=420967&y=450905&z=120&sv=420967,450905&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=846&ax=420967&ay=450905&lm=0

   Posted 7 months ago #
6. pstokes99 - Member

   I have been meaning to come and help for ages but have never yet made it - should be able to give a couple of hours at least (before I have to take my daughter to a party at a soft pay centre).

   I can get there earlier - would anyone be around to direct my efforts?

   Posted 7 months ago #
7. Mugboo - Member

   pstokes - there is quite often someone there earlier. Give people a shout on the Singletraction website on the Stainburn 7th Feb Dig day section.

   One problem we have is its very hard to be organised when you have no idea how many folks will turn up. Give us a shout if your up for it.

   Posted 7 months ago #
8. Mugboo - Member

   Bump

   Posted 7 months ago #
9. dt5714 - Member

   Do you ever get up there mid week? I work shift's so get time off during the week so could lend a hand if you can sort something. Another lad off my shift use's Stainburn also so I'm sure I could con him into coming up too.

   Posted 7 months ago #
10. big-chief-96 - Member

    youv'e got 2 more laborours, me and my brother will turn up bang on 9:45 nice and smiley with lots of tools, including the famous green spade featured in the singletrack magazine

    Posted 7 months ago #
11. Mugboo - Member

    dt 5714 - we are all pretty busy peeps so we make it one Sunday a month so that we all pull in the same direction. Come along a few times, get a feel for what we do. If its your kinda thang then some midweek maintenence would no doubt be welcome.

    Big cheif- more the merrier, riding bikes, talking bout bikes and building stuff to ride bikes over then talking bout bikes ain't a bad way to spend a day.

    Posted 7 months ago #
12. Cheeky Monkey - Member

    Like Mugboo says, once you know the general script about the woods, what can and can't be done and who to talk to about it (we have someone with the grandiose title "Head of Trail Design" or "Knacker" as we call him then you would be welcome to do a bit of mid-week stuff.

    Forestry Commission have some pretty firm views on what can be done where. If we do it wrong and/or in the wrong place they become unhappy. Unhappy land managers make life hard for volunteers So much of the "behind the scenes" work is trying to get a consensus with them. It's a relief to shovel and roll rocks on a dig sometimes. Anyway, hence we don't send anyone off into the woods with a vague "oh just dig summat there". No reflection on anyone else's skills, abilities or intentions

    Brilliant that you're prepared to do something in your off time though. Might be more chance to meet up whent he evenings get longer and I can swing by after work.

    Posted 7 months ago #
13. Chase - Member

    ....and it's Stif's opening weekend too. You could kill two birds with one stone - lend as hand at Stainburn for the morning, leave feeling good about yourself and reward yourself with new shiney stuff in the afternoon. Sorted.

    Posted 7 months ago #
14. Mugboo - Member

    bump

    Posted 6 months ago #
15. pstokes99 - Member

    Have been given permission to attend - see you in the morning.

    Posted 6 months ago #
16. Simon - Member

    Excellent, always good to see some new faces.

    Posted 6 months ago #
17. pstokes99 - Member

    Is anyone likely to be there earlier than 10.00?

    Posted 6 months ago #
18. Chase - Member

    Si and me will be there about 9.15.

    For anybody turning up before 10 - head down the felled area towards (and beyond) the bottom of the descent line - you should be able to see us.

    Posted 6 months ago #
19. Mugboo - Member

    Looking forward to it boys.

    Posted 6 months ago #
20. Chase - Member

    A very productive morning. There must have been 10 metres of new pitched stone trail bed down before Si and me left at lunchtime. Hoping you guys left made progress later on. Plenty of huge boulders shifted into place too.
    Just shows what can be done with a few more people.

    Thanks to everyone who turned up to lend a hand!!!

    Posted 6 months ago #
21. Mugboo - Member

    Superb day today, good turnout, got alot done.

    Thanks to the usual crew, you know who you are. Big thanks to first timers George (Taka's bro), LukeEllis, Pstokes99, Tom & Joel. If i forgot anybody please let me know!

    Hope no ones too sore tomorrow. I tried my best to explain what and why in relation to todays trail building, if you've any questions just ask and i'll do my best to answer em...

    Cheers jase

    Posted 6 months ago #
22. Cheeky Monkey - Member

    Brilliant effort from everyone that turned up and big clap on the back for Jase / Mugboo for trying (and suceeding) to roust up more volunteers.

    The extra numbers meant some hefty rockery got shifted and the ensuing trail sections should be true Stainburn boulder-fests. Big bertha continues to prove invaluable (an Heath-Robinson contraption comprising mainly 9 foot of scaffold bar) at shifting boulders. Knackers straps also made life a lot easier (OK, so "easier" is relative). Who would have though something so simple could make such a difference.

    Full respect to all the new guys that came out in distinctly average weather and worked their socks off. Hope to see you all again in March.

    And big thanks to Tom as well for hte exposure in the STW blog:

    http://www.singletrackworld.com/blogs/2010/02/bikes-bikes-everywhere-but-not-a-single-one-ridden/

    Will post up my pics and put a write up on the site soon.

    Posted 6 months ago #
23. Pook - Member

    When's the next?

    7th MArch?

    Posted 6 months ago #
24. Cheeky Monkey - Member

    Aye, fancy some do ya?

    

    Posted 6 months ago #
25. Pook - Member

    yup. Can drop my mrs off at her parents down the road and come up

    Posted 6 months ago #
26. Cheeky Monkey - Member

    Good man.

    People often there from 9 or a little after. "Official" kick off is 10 am, meeting at the Norwood Edge car park on the B6451 (Pateley Bridge Road) or just down at the dig (section is on the Boulder Trail side, in the clear fell, beyond the end of the Descent Line).

    Keep an eye on the SingletrAction.org.uk for updates, particularly in the forum section for Stainburn.

    Posted 6 months ago #
27. luke.ellis - Member

    Hi All that was there on Sunday and to all those that are interested in the next dig day. I was one of the new boys on sunday and had a brilliant day even tho my hands are soar today and shoulders ache a bit. Was really good to just hang out with like minded people and help build some thing that will last forever and create so much fun for everyone that ever rides it.

    For all those that have never been to a dig day. Get on the web find your local trail builders. you will have a great day out and meet lots of cool people and as i did and learn about the amount of work that goes in to a MTB trail that people like single track action put in to these projects.(THERE VOLUNTEERS DONT YOU KNOW!!)

    I will be there next month and im sure i will leave with a smile on face knowing in a few months the trail will be finished and i can fly down it on the bike. when i say fly i mean roll down it very slow probably with both breaks pulled tight back to the bars.

    Posted 6 months ago #
28. Mugboo - Member

    Pook do you think you could bring your video camera and do us some kind of short film? If you've any idea's along these lines i'd be very interested.
    Maybe a few v short interviews (don't expect anybody to be too serious), could include a bit about some of the original features spliced with someone riding those sections - Chase? and a little about the future??

    Or tell me t'bugger off..

    Liked your last Stainburn vid, a lesson in determination indeed.

    Posted 6 months ago #
29. Pook - Member

    Er, yeah I guess I could borrow a decent camera (it's my job!) and do something proper for the team. I'll try to get hold of a Z1 (a better camera than the one I filmed the stainburn stuff with.)

    If you have some logos and stuff email them to me

    I'll be there on the 7th definitely.

    Posted 6 months ago #
30. Blower - Member

    I luuuurve Stainburn!!
    favourite trail centre,better than the usual pap imo...wish it was longer though..

    Posted 6 months ago #
31. Cheeky Monkey - Member

    wish it was longer though..

    LOL

    The answer to that is in the thread above

    Posted 6 months ago #
32. Blower - Member

    True Cheeky,
    start of March then next dig day?

    Posted 6 months ago #
33. Cheeky Monkey - Member

    Yip, 07 March at the top car park ("Norwood Edge Car Park) just off the B6451, Pateley Road. Official start time is 10:00 but there's often people there around 09:00 and onwards.

    We'll be working on the Extension to the Descent Line again. No special tools required although if you have something that you think will move big boulders feel free to bring it along. Steel toes cap / decent boots are worthwhile, as are gloves and bait+brew.

    March's DD is a bit special because we're going to have the club AGM at 14:00 in the Chapel just below the woods. Nothing stopping anyone coming along though.

    Digs are informal, open house affairs. It's not a niche of elite trailbuilders / technical riding gods or anything. Strictly speaking you should be a paid up member to attend a dig day BUT we accept people often want to come down and see what it's all about before joining. Yes, we appreciate the irony of being one of the few who put something tangible back in the trails but having to pay for the privilege. Funds have to be raised somehow and people have to be members to be covered by the insurance FE insist we hold if working in the wood

    Swing on by to http://www.singletraction.org.uk or the forum http://singletraction.frankencrank.com/phpBB3/index.php if you want to know more.

    Posted 6 months ago #

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