Well, i got my new digital camera so i decided to take some pics of my local trail. I've been wanting to see what everybody thinks of it. Its about a 3min ride and situated in just a very 'full of trees' park. Its not a proper trail but it comes off a main path, there are exit and entry pics in there somewhere, and i have to remove that fallen over tree on the path

What does everybody think?

looks like some fun lite xc riding...id go with you too bad i live litterally across the planet...

Same.

Wait, don't remove the tree just hop it. Add to the challenge.

That kind of reminds a bit of my local trails (Section 36, aka The Beav) although mine's a little more twisty and singletracky with some elevation change. Like yours, the beauty of it is that it's literally right outside my doorstep. I need to remember to take a few pictures of it the next time I go riding which will hopefully be soon... as soon as I get rid of this damn cold and the trail dries out a tad (been having some bad rains lately). A lot of the trail gets pretty unridable during the winters... well I could probably ride it but that's not good for the trails. But some of it remains fairly dry.

Well it diverts off to the end where there is a grass path sort of, and all the rain we've had (just coming out of winter) has caused the main dirt trail to over grow. There are bushes and trees hanging over the path and you have to head through it helmet down and hope you make it .

My friend and i went back there today and tried to fix this log problem. There is no way you could get over it without some sort of ramp. We tried sticks and stuff but still its too steep, unless your going pretty fast which will **ck up my rear wheel AGAIN. So its either sneek back in with a hacksaw, a chain saw, a plank of wood for a ramp or a shovel and make another route around the log.

Well mine is extreemly twisty, and a bit elevated, its just hard to reconise these things looking at a photo. Mine is pretty thin, and you can walk beside the bike other wise you would be off the track, but it is great that its so close to home. Its perfect, not too off-road, but has a variety of steepness, and is easy on your legs, you really build up most of your speed at the start, its like a rollar coaster. I got a video of it but its 6mb too large to attach is a fun ride , exept you gotta ride back up again

Well i'm brining up this old thread again, because I have finally chopped down the log that fell over .

Before:



After:




Unfortuanley it was only a few days later before a massive tree that is now litteraly unmoveable
came down just metres after this one. Will post pics tommorow when got time,
quite funny really, I turned around the corner and almost run into a gum tree

you shouldn't have cut the tree. just keep practicing and you would have learned how to get over it. especially with those sticks there.

now that you have a larger tree, I would take the small tree you cut and put that in front/behind and make another ramp over the larger log.

that's the joy of riding a bike, getting better and doing things you never thought possible.

Ditto...that tree wasn't that big and easily rideable with some practice....sad really.

Actually it was not easily ridable, unless you got enough speed, and a very strong rim, you might make it.
Seems like nothing in the photos, but it was just in the way and I wasn't willing to try and get over it, so off it went.
You need speed, and that you dont have on a short little path, I actually tried it, but the sticks wern't stable enough and I ended up smaking my chain-ring into it. Anway thats not a problem now......

The bigger problem is this MASSIVE tree, I dont know what you were thinking saying a log, this is litterly a tree in the middle of our path. You cant go around it without hopping off, so its gonna take a lot of work.






Maybe we could smuggle in a chainsaw...

yeah don't try a chainsaw. council might catch ya. axe or saw would be great.

Yeah... that second obstruction is REALLY a tree... as far as the first log goes, I would have found something a bit more inventive than just chopping through it... perhaps pile up some smaller logs before it or whatever.

Well I did pile up some smaller logs, but that didn't really work. I was actually going to try and get a plank of wood or somthing stable, but cutting it down was just as easy, But yeh, this new one is huge so I dont know what i'm gonna do about it ...

BTW, Great Photos!

man, just hop that thing man, its just a tree!

Nice pix. Maybe you should contact the locals about what to do with the tree?

Yeah that needs a chainsaw Unless you can find a way around it

I would seroiusly ring up the counsil and tell em to move it except..this is one of those re-generation locations, where we're not allowed. I've been caught once by the council walking down it, that hasn't stopped me though. Anyway ss-ben and I are going down with an axe and a saw and we're gonna cut this thing to pieces. God if we get caught though we got some seroius, fast off-road riding to do.

Anyhow you can get around it, but you gotta hop off your bikes, no WAY you could ride through it, but its such a good track to go down and these stupid Koala trees just like to fall down on it

I Don't think we'll get caught, if so, BAIL! I think i need to sharpen my axe!

Next time a log falls over the track like the first one, but is too big to hop over, just build a north shore style ladder bridge up to/over it. It would add something new to the trail. You could turn it into a jump or just something you roll over.

Yep we could do that. That tree that had fallen down on the track is gone now. We got rid of it today. blue_neon has pictures ready to post tomorrow.

I prefer dirt and sticks parallel to the log. It gives it a more natural feel. Don't pile the dirt all the way up to the top though. You want it to still present a challenge.

where abouts is the trail?

yeah blue_neon: where (in melb) is this trail?