Powers Creek Build Session

Posted on November 3, 2007 by Smoke

Dirty Dave is on another mission. Tis time he’s extending Builder’s Only another mile to add to the already impressive trails up Powers Creek.

Today was the hard part. We had some thick bush to get through now.

Luckily, with a bunch of motivated guys and chainsaws, it’s pretty quick. We put in at least 400m of trail today.

Lunch, and some philsophical meanderings from the “Master of Slag.”

There’s also some other work going on up here, like these jumps called “Daryl, Daryl, and Daryl”. Typical, they’ve all got names and only one’s been built so far.

Yet More Chocolate Feet.

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Smoke

Good old Wa. He’s sent me another one.

Hi Will. How do you like that? A brand new stunt for you, courtesey of Dirty Dave Diddler.

A reasonably epic day of fall colours and great conditions.

Will really liked this move. Why do the Brits ride so well and just generally make themselves so easy to get along with. We may never know, but here’s hoping this trend continues….

Our tenant Dan joined us for one last lap in the near dark. I’m including this shot as it represents the very first step-up/step-down combo for our Dan. If you’re not impressed, keep in mind that it’s his first one, it’s dark, and oh yeah…..he lost one leg in a motorcycle accident only 2 years ago.

Powers Creek Trail Day

Posted on October 14, 2007 by Smoke

Got busy with some maintenance today. Dave built up a new hit near the top of Builders Only, but it had a bit of a savage landing. So much so that a few well meaning but misguided individuals felt the urge to install this shonky ramp.

My plan was to remove said ramp and make a nice tranny instead.

I was going to put that tranny about where the bottom of the ramp was, but after 20 or 30 riders in a row came wailing off the jump and landed aout three feet further out, I changed my plan. Hey, is that a Knolly?

Once I got that done, Harley and I randown to check out Dave’s latest creation. It has no name, but in honour of a minor shitstorm I created over a comment about “sissy lines” it may be referenced as the “Sissy Smoker.”

I’ve always called the easy way around the “sissy line” a few folks didn’t get the joke over at PinkBike. Oh well, I actually did spend a reasonable amount of time making a decent way around for riders of the more earthbound persuasion.