June's Post

Left Line's new 4th set, another left hip.

Someone with some imagination, please come up with a good name for the Left Line.

Get ready to dodge some trees on Left Line.

Excavation area for the 4th set. Old iron wood waiting to be removed.

New ankle friendly stairs started Sunday and close to finished. New paint job coming soon.

Trails have been holding up pretty good to the lack of rain and the ferns don't seem to mind.

From the lack of blog updates you would think the trails are dead, but quite the opposite. Dialing is continuing along with more riding then digging. We are in a good spot where most everything is running and new stuff is being added. The majority on the jumps are running good and the roll-in is getting an update with some needed improvements for when we have bigger session turnouts. Main Line is getting better everyday and Revolver is looking close to being ready for a session. Dan P. and Jordan are ripping the place up on every visit. Brad is getting back on it and Dinger has moved back into town and picked up where he left off boosting. I have been slacking on getting riding pics for the blog and have been taping alot more. Dan P. has been capturing some footage also and we might actually have enough to do a edit or 2 this year. Seems like there is someone there almost everday of the week in the evening hours.  More beginner friendly and old man, want to ride, but not kill yourself stuff is being built. Come on down and turn your bars. Hopefully some cool pics next time or Vimeo clips and we will shoot for 2 posts in July that are worthy.

GoPro weekend post

Here are 3 links to the Farmboy Trails Vimeo page and GoPro clips from the last week. Check it out.

https://vimeo.com/42885667
https://vimeo.com/42885955
https://vimeo.com/42886818

Jump in berm

The trails have been soaking up all of the rain. Looks like another week of rain. Starting to tarp the bigger stuff to minimize rework after the T-Storms. My project of jumping  into the berm after the 180 berm is getting real close to trying out. Other stuff continues to get dialed throughout the trails. I actually put the shovel down and got some warm up runs in Sunday. Looking forward to a lot more riding time soon. A couple of visitors made it out this weekend to hangout. Hopefully some riding photos or video coming soon.

New Vinyl Video

http://vimeo.com/vinylbmx/trailblazers

Just watched it 3 times. Pumped on it.

April Snow

Saturday - Rain

Sunday - Rain

Monday - Snow

Tuesday - Snow

Wednesday morning - Snow melted

Wednesday night - Dirt was perfect

The dirt was the perfect shade of brown from the moisture. The moisture she had been begging for for weeks. The trees are finally starting to show signs of green. The trails are happy again, besides wanting more people to come dig and ride. Almost everything is to the point of needing ridden before more dialing is done. Weather is looking decent for the next 5 days after today. Come on down and dig and get some laps in.

Farmboy Swimming Pool

1/2 hour into digging.

2 hours into digging and plastic laid.

Stretching the hose out to the creek across the swamp.

Across the trails...

...to the swimming pool / fish pond / trail watering reservior.

Roughly 1200 gallons if filled 2 foot deep.

I never thought I would be building a pond when I woke up Saturday morning. Planned on going to work a 1/2 a day then the trails to dial some more lips. The place was dry and it rained the day before. As we walked into the trails we noticed the 1st pond experiment failed and the water stored up the night before disappeared. We refocused on a smaller pond of about 8 foot x 10 foot x 3 foot deep. I did a power dig with Brad back filling with our over abundance of rocks followed by multiple plastic tarps along with a new piece of plastic. The idea is to fill the holding pond from the creek 150 to 200 feet away. Then reposition the generator and sump pump to the holding pond. From there we eventually plan on running permanent hose through out the trails with multiple spray nozzles. Planning on being able to throughly soak anything for new construction or repair. We will see what happens. Hopefully we can keep the dogs out of the pond.

In general the trails are dry and we are way a head of schedule compared to normal. Need rain or the watering system up and running to water and ride stuff in. Probably just going to be photo updates on the blog for a while. Too busy in general and the home computer is acting up. Stopped at Catty on Monday afternoon while traveling for work and found some more inspiration to ride. Have plenty of inspiration to dig already. Checked out the craziness and talked to Abe while he was building. Can't wait to get back and wish we had some down hill to our trails, but it is all good. Come on down and throw some shovels.

1st April Weekend

First week of April 2012

End of March Progress

Updated Links

I updated the link section and added some I check out regularly and removed some that had not been updating.

March update

NBL Line with the boosted transfer landing on the right and the old last berm missing. New landing on left for not transferring and future easier line to be named.
New lip in NBL Line after transfer set.
The start of the new hipped left landing before heading into the planned big right berm / jump "shark fin" in the NBL Line.

The Roller Line is ready for some jibbing and the winter digging on it is drying out nicely.

Contest Line, Geronimo, Revolver.

Hip landing berm thing has seen some much needed love.

Roller Line berm between Revolver's ready to go 3rd set.

It has been a while since a real update on the trails, but that's because works been getting done at the trails. It was an awesome winter for getting digging done at the trails and Brad and me got more done then we were hoping for. Everything is untarped right now trying to soak up whatever water the jumps can find. The place is drying out quickly and a plan is in action to build a reservior near the center of the trails to store water transferred from the creek. We are betting on an extremely dry spring and summer, because of the dry winter and planning on doing what we need to do to have dialed trails no matter what rain we get.

Roller Line is raked out and ready to ride in. The Main Line is raked out to the long-n-low and buttering is taking place. The Left Lines need some work, but can be going quickly.

Our weekday trail local from Cleveland has been putting in a lot of work. Dan P. has the newly renamed Revolver Line looking the best it ever has. If he can find a bike, I think it is ready to be sent up through the 4th set then onto un-charted territory on the 5th and 6th set.

Get to the trails, you're a couple 100 wheel barrow loads behind before you can ride. Just kiddin', get to the trails and enjoy the weather. Blog updates should start becoming regular again. Get on your bikes and ride.