Are there any good ones about? I have looked on IMBA and they have some but charge for them. I was wondering if anyone has any experience of the IMBA guides (before I pay good money for them), or whether there are any free ones that are worth getting hold of?
Thanks
I have the imba guide and reckon it wide good. Most of it is useful.
Is that the one that is free to members and £3 to non-members?
I have a few bits of the IMBA guides when they used to be downloadable. Email in profile.
You could phone the Landlord (Tim I Think?) of the Dog and Partridge @ Tosside nr Gisburn Forest. He had a copy on the bar for customers to read and has done alot of trail building himself. I think it was IMBAs Trail Solutions. I presume the Free to members guide will be the key bits of Trail Solutions.
The IMBA stuff is good and probably worth paying for. Like anything, it's guidance and a bit general in places (and some stuff works better in particular locations and sometimes it's a bit wide of the mark) but it's got most of the core stuff in there and should be essential reading if you want trails to last.
Lee McCormack's "Pump Track Nation" as a $10 pdf download from www.leelikesbikes.com is also good. PT focused but quite a bit of stuff is transferable.
IMBA US' site also has quite a bit of good, free information on it. Takes a bit of rooting out as the site isn't the clearest at times but worth it. There's a bit of stuff on our site as well:
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Not sure if all the links are up-to-date.
Or go to a local dig day (if you can find one) and learn from others there who have greater levels of experience.