Dalby Forest / Carlton Bank 30-31.07.05

[True Saxon]

As previously mentioned in this thread (http://www.trailblazerz.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=299)

Sat30 - Sun31 / July / Twothousandandfive.

Plan is to drive up to Carlton Bank on saturday morning and stay there untill early evening.

Then drive down to a nice little campsite i know (just outside Dalby). If time is on our side we could take a little trip into the woods around the campsite (small quarry) or the 1 mile or so bike ride to the pubs;)

Then on sunday spend the day in Dalby itself.
Checking out the new stuff and the old.

Anyone intrested?

[jack]

would mast definately be but ill be in france, hopefully riding at cap d'ail. sorry

[True Saxon]

my car is full now :/

[True Saxon]

Well after having to cancel the above date, we made it this weekend. And had a lot of fun, once we finally got there.

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My brother was driving and thought it would be a good time to test the sat nav in his van. big mistake.
firstly it tried to send us by the back country lanes to get to the humber bridge. LOL, then it insisted we went via york. i know the way to dalby but my brother isnsisted we followed the gps.
2.5 hours later we arrived.
First stop was the new skills area, looked like a large bmx track to me.
its made up mostly of tabletops and berms and "the tunnel of death" .
You start on a steep run in to the first table top and have plenty of speed to clear it. then you hit a little step up and into the right handed cork screw berm, this is fast but could be a lot faster if the surfacing wasnt so loose and you didnt have to make a sharp exit from the berm. or hit the wall of the tunnel.
through the tunnel and into another right handed berm into a left handed berm into a kind of hipped tabletop into another left handed berm (by now i was tired of pedalling).
Leaving the berm there is a short straight onto a sort of step up to tabletop followed by a small speed bump and the end of the course.

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We spent most of the evening sessioning the first section untill after the tunnel and had a great laugh. Even my brother and his friend who dont really ride (yet).
Would be a good laugh "racing" around here and would soon get you fit due to the ammount of pedalling involved after the tunnel.

Back to the camp site for an evening of beer bbq and music

After breakfast we packed up the tents and could sense a sigh of relief from the adjacent campers when they realised we where leaving. i did turn it down, honest.

Spent another hour or so at the skills area then had a couple of runs on the staindale downhills before heading to the dalby downhill.

I expected to see some progress made to this incomplete course but sadly there was non, although i am sure the gap jump is bigger (bottled) and another (bigger) step down built. Had a few runs down here before i retiring for food and beer.

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When leaving the forest the GPS told us to head down a dirt track (dont know why as there is only one road that loops through the forrest and we where already on it). Luckily this time my bro ignored it, turned it off and we got home in 1.5 hours :)

Excellent weekend had.

[jack]

looks pretty darn good, i think i shall be paying a visit there soon.

is 1.5 hours the usual amount of time it takes to get there? or was that the "satnav assisted time"?

[Baker]

I went last weekend in august and loved it! We asked where it was in the forest but the guy in the info office couldnt tell us cos it wasn't finished but told us were the black routes were so we went and started riding to the routs and saw a men at work sign and e lot of rocks, so we walked in and there it was no, no entry signs so we had a great(knackerin-very warm) day on the track. It is a brill place to practice all ur manuals and cutties ect> it rocks