[Closed] Gisburn rocks........;o)

Chainring eating, bike breaking, multiple puncture, rock slab fest.

That's where the 'skill' part comes in 😉 If you want to just pedal stick to the road.

Gisburn is ace! Spent hours up there recently and never get bored, just keep getting better! 'Spose I should get my finger out and volunteer some digging. Hangovers tend to curtail my enthusiasm though! 😳

a vigorous bit of digging is the best hangover cure there is lol ,
stumpyjon i got myself a job yesterday so i wont be available for the midweek dig

Good News Terry, getting a new job at the moment is a bit of a novelty!. If you want to do any extra weekends, let me know. At the moment, I can't do that official dig day on the 2nd sunday of the month, but I could do 3rd or 4th.

Jon, I should be ok for either of those mid week digs.

hi, yes very good news indeed, im definatley up for extra weekend digs

Terry, excellent news. I'll email around everybody early next week and confirm what people want to do. As I said I can't make the Sunday we were proposing but as long as a few others will be there I don't mind organising stuff with Martin and I still want to do the mid week digs after. As I say I'll email everyone with options early next week, I'll collate the replies and feed it all back to Martin.

BTW I'm also on for additional weekend digs, just can't make a week on Sunday.

Jon

i just remembered that martin said the company that designed the tee shirts were also working on a website for gisburn trails

What t.shirts?

gisburn trail builders t shirts , free to those who do a dig , iv got about 50 of them 😉

Apparently Nigel P has 2, one for digging and one for best (or in reality 2 for best 😆 ).

That's new then, they've only been talking about tshirts since last October. 😉

What a strange place.

Chainring eating, bike breaking, multiple puncture, rock slab fest.

Please assure me thats not a professional trail design?

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[That's new then, they've only been talking about tshirts since last October]
yes things seem to happen about as fast as the trees grow lol

Not enough volunteers, or did we mention that already 😆

For all those who expressed a preference (or even a vague indication of interest)about extra dig days I've emailed you all tonight.

Jon

Email me will you Jon?

Ed just emailed you.

Scott, you up for getting muddy next week, mail me.

mud wrestling ? 😯

just got my copy of mbr, quite q good write up on the trails and some nice pics (even if the southern jessies got lost by 80 miles )

oh and don't forget the dig day this Sunday 10 till 3 same place as last time, more helpers means more trail to ride

Local knowledge it wasn't 🙄

Good write up though, and they got a picture of our staircase, right proud of that I am, especially as I was the idiot who put the step in at the top.

nowt wrong with the step gives it a bit of interest and challenge , i would have put in more and bigger steps personally but i guess that would have made it black

Good write up though, and they got a picture of our staircase, [b]right proud of that I am[/b], especially as I was the idiot who put the step in at the top.

P1ss poor turn out today, only three of us, weather was ****ing terrible, which might have had something to do with it.
Here's a nice pic to try and encourage some of you to turn up and build some interesting stuff.
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BA I turned up, be it for 5 minutes, the weather was indeed crap however cocklets car park was full. Im there on Wednesday so will carry on your good work. I'll take a few pics of what we get done and have them on here quick sharp for all to enjoy. Also I will be sporting my nice t-shirt...

B.a.nana

Haven't you got any friends? why are you asking complete strangers on a forum to help you build/dig?

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Yeah Ton/Bombadillo, well what did you expect, someone only just signed up to STW and starts asking a question like that on the forum? Did you get the frame?

P1ss poor turn out today, only three of us, weather was ****ing terrible, which might have had something to do with it.
Here's a nice pic to try and encourage some of you to turn up and build some interesting stuff.

Looks like quite a lot got done on Sunday which is excellent. Will be there Wednesday and Friday too. Got some ideas for other simple log features, thought about some logs to practise bunnyhoping over and a snaking set of switchbacks around said logs if you don't want to jump them. Scott thought about some step ups as well. Hell we could even build some step downs as well, only just thought of that 😳 . Going to leave the more complex to the FC (next formal dig day will be the 8th of November).

As for turn out, be nice if more people could lend a hand but I'm grateful for anybody putting their time in. Surprising what 3 or 4 motivated people get achieve in 5 hours.

ton - Member
B.a.nana

Haven't you got any friends? why are you asking complete strangers on a forum to help you build/dig?

B.a.nana
sorry for this reply mate, i was in a foul mood and apologise for it.

Hi,

Having been up to gisburn and really enjoying it I would like to offer my services to help out at the dig days. I'm not sure who to get in touch with and how much help that I will be but the offer is there.

my mail is in my profile

ATB

Sam

Sam,

Official dig days are the second Sunday of the month, 10am - 3pm. I'll send you a copy of the last email we got from Martin Charlesworth at Forest of Bowland AONB - he's the chap to contact to get on the mailing list. There's a link in the email which has details of where we're currently meeting.

As for the extra dig days we've just started, Stumpyjon's the one doing his best to keep the rest of us in line. His email's in his profile, but I'll send you a copy of his last email too. Then you'll know as much as we do! 🙂

Come on down, the more the merrier! Many hands make light work! Too many cooks... er, on second thoughts, scratch that one... 😕 😀

Tony

Sam

Tony beat me to it, would be great to have the extra help. Everybody's welcome. If you want any more info or want to ask any questions please email me.

Dig days planned are this Wednesday and Friday (it's half term and I could face 9 days of the kids 😆 ) and then Sunday 8th November.

hi , not bad day yesterday got loads done but plenty left for the midweek crew , Scott i can confirm that the tee shirts are most definitely not water proof 🙁 , b.a.nana can you email me a copy of those pics of my van with trailer you took yesterday
ps i like the steps idea various sizes and distance apart

thanks for all the info chaps,
will nearly certainly be there 8th November but not going to be able to do midweeks as I would probably get the sack 🙂

Sam

B.a.nana
sorry for this reply mate, i was in a foul mood and apologise for it.

and i am gonna do a dig day, when i get a spare weekend.
let me know for november.... 8)

Terry
My flickr account is here [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoppy66/ ]flickr account[/url] I loaded a picture of the bongo with FC trailer. If you still want me to email you a pic then just say. Thanks for the rain cover at lunch, much appreciated. Bongotastic!

b.a don't bother with the email ill copy it of flicker thanks , good luck with the dig tomorrow guys

Good work guys. Really liking the volunteer sections.

With special thanks to the gentlemen with the wonderful little girls who brought us cakes they'd made themselves, here are the results of today's efforts.

A few more metres of trail (didn't actually measure how many 😕 )...

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And a shonky bridge over a yawning chasm... 😀

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That bridge is far from shonky it would give the Milliau a run for its money in engineering terms.. I know this as I tested the above bridge by jumping up and down on it. A big thanks to the cake kids and their Dad of course.

Sorry chaps, I broke the McLeod on Sunday (I suspect maybe someone else had broken/weakened it 😉 on a previous dig, as it broke almost as soon as I started using it), so you won't have had anything to tamper the hardcore down.
Will Jons(?) girls be making cake for Friday?
Nice work BTW.

Sorry chaps, I broke the McLeod on Sunday (I suspect maybe someone else had broken/weakened it on a previous dig, as it broke almost as soon as I started using it), so you won't have had anything to tamper the hardcore down.

I know this as I tested the above bridge by jumping up and down on it.

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Tony, 😳 honestly, it just went after a few bashes, will the FC guys repair it by Friday?. We need a rake in the box aswell, it's much easier to get the hardcore raked to the correct slight offset angle (drainage) with a good rake, rather than using the Mcleod..