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  • Building your owns (mini) skills park???
  • core
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    I’m in the fortunate position of having a disused railway line running alongside my garden, and having a gate straight on to it. All owned by my girlfriend’s family, (farmers).

    There’s about a 250 yard stretch right by us which is in a cutting ranging from about 6 to 12 feet deep, it doesn’t get used for much at all, so I had this idea yesterday…….. The old trackbed itself is basically flat by the way and I suppose about 15 feet wide or thereabouts now.

    I’ll have to leave a strip down the middle wide enough to get the tractor down, but suppose I can pretty much do what I like with the rest.

    So, if it was you, what would you put in? Photo’s would be helpful! At the moment I know my cornering speed & berm technique leaves a lot to be desired, along with jumps, so that’s a starting point.

    Riding a Genesis Core btw

    Junkyard
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    Marry her

    HTH

    JoeG
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    joespencer33
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    Put some stuff in you don’t often see on the trail, and also build in some stuff you can’t do at the moment to account for progression.
    One thing I love putting trails I dig is an S bend of berms with a roller in the middle.

    Euro
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    You say the total width is 15′ or so? That’s going to be tight getting a 180 berm in. Leaving the middle 8′ clear for the tractor means a long oval with two (small) 180 berms at either end with small doubles and tables along each length. Maybe even a wooden drop or two.

    One thing I love putting trails I dig is an S bend of berms

    Stuff like that is great fun to ride but i’m not sure if he has the free space.

    core
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    I’ll try and post some photo’s up later if I get time, although the flat is about 15ft wide, the sloping banks to the side are mostly clear of big trees and could accommodate some stuff, it varies quite a lot to be honest.

    GEDA
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    Here is the one i made in our garden.

    _tom_
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    Probably easiest to start with a few straight jumps then see what space you have to work with. A ladder drop ibto the jump line would be fun 🙂

    Wookster
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    ^^^^^

    Awesome vid mate!

    LoCo
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    Can you bribe the farmer to do some digging with machinery to save time and effort shifting the dirt in the first place ? 😉

    JoeG
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    GEDA – get a fire going in that fire pit and build a line through the flames! 😈

    JEngledow
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    Awesome vid mate!

    +1, I’m feeling inspired, but then remember I don’t have anywhere I can build a pump-track 🙁

    core
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    I do have a JCB 3CX at my disposal……….. But he might get a bit concerned if I’m down there digging for too long!

    Paceman
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    Geda,

    Love the video of your mini pump track 🙂

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