beginner_giantDH
Banned
1) Walk the trail and plan where to build;
as simple as it sounds. there are many good reasons to walk a trail and see where u want to build it. this comes in handy when you are planning on how much time and effort you want to put into your track. also helps you to make sure u want end up next to an angry path-user and away from obvious dangers and deterants
2) Clear a wide path;
im not talking bout getting a steam roller and making the path as wide as a footbal feild but i am suggesting making it wider than a couple inches. the reason for this is that if its a new trail it will help you to find your line when your riding it and also allow you to check for any dangers stumps or rocks you dont wanna bend you rib over when ur eating dirt, the track after a while will become thinner anyway after time as leaf litter falls on the un-used section of track.
3) Dont go easy;
your spending your time and effort on building a track and if your anything like me may even spend more time building it than riding it. but if you finish a track after three months and learn how to ride it in 1 month i would consider that pointless. depending on what you want to get from a track i would suggest in most cases building obsticals that you are not comfortable with. this way your track will always keep you interested and learning from it with every ride.
4) Try not to destroy, Why??;
if you go to any track and start hacking down trees and rolling huge boulders through the bush your gonna disturb and attract unwanted attention. in most cases people will hear all the noise and complain to council, or hundreds of people with their push bikes and moto's and drugs will have just found a nice clean path have a bash on.
5) North shore;
its awsome to ride but there are a few things to watch out for, timber platforms become very obvious features in the middle of the bush. so depending on who you want knowing about your track this may or may not concern you.
vandalism, when your six to ten feet of the ground and riding down a track the last thing you want is to have a few beams missing or ladder gone. not a happy ending.
rotting and white ants, its a good idea to check your stuff every few months to make sure everything is still as solid as when you first built it. try to support or burry beams onto flat rocks as this will stop an amount of water soaking up through the bottom of the timber leading to rot. another way is to use sacrificial timber as a base for your supports that can be replaced when they in time rot with the moisture
technique, not everyone is an awsome builder but there are a few things to suggest.
-1) use bolts not nails for any supports or beams
-2) use screw instead of nails for the attaching of slats (they stay in place)
-3) primary supports should run fom the ground straight to the ladder,
secondary supports should run diagnally between these primary supports for extra strenght
-4) support it until you not scared to jump up and down on every section
6) HAVE FUN
hope this helps a few of you guys, if not dont tell me. lol
as simple as it sounds. there are many good reasons to walk a trail and see where u want to build it. this comes in handy when you are planning on how much time and effort you want to put into your track. also helps you to make sure u want end up next to an angry path-user and away from obvious dangers and deterants
2) Clear a wide path;
im not talking bout getting a steam roller and making the path as wide as a footbal feild but i am suggesting making it wider than a couple inches. the reason for this is that if its a new trail it will help you to find your line when your riding it and also allow you to check for any dangers stumps or rocks you dont wanna bend you rib over when ur eating dirt, the track after a while will become thinner anyway after time as leaf litter falls on the un-used section of track.
3) Dont go easy;
your spending your time and effort on building a track and if your anything like me may even spend more time building it than riding it. but if you finish a track after three months and learn how to ride it in 1 month i would consider that pointless. depending on what you want to get from a track i would suggest in most cases building obsticals that you are not comfortable with. this way your track will always keep you interested and learning from it with every ride.
4) Try not to destroy, Why??;
if you go to any track and start hacking down trees and rolling huge boulders through the bush your gonna disturb and attract unwanted attention. in most cases people will hear all the noise and complain to council, or hundreds of people with their push bikes and moto's and drugs will have just found a nice clean path have a bash on.
5) North shore;
its awsome to ride but there are a few things to watch out for, timber platforms become very obvious features in the middle of the bush. so depending on who you want knowing about your track this may or may not concern you.
vandalism, when your six to ten feet of the ground and riding down a track the last thing you want is to have a few beams missing or ladder gone. not a happy ending.
rotting and white ants, its a good idea to check your stuff every few months to make sure everything is still as solid as when you first built it. try to support or burry beams onto flat rocks as this will stop an amount of water soaking up through the bottom of the timber leading to rot. another way is to use sacrificial timber as a base for your supports that can be replaced when they in time rot with the moisture
technique, not everyone is an awsome builder but there are a few things to suggest.
-1) use bolts not nails for any supports or beams
-2) use screw instead of nails for the attaching of slats (they stay in place)
-3) primary supports should run fom the ground straight to the ladder,
secondary supports should run diagnally between these primary supports for extra strenght
-4) support it until you not scared to jump up and down on every section
6) HAVE FUN
hope this helps a few of you guys, if not dont tell me. lol
