2012 Trails Thread

Hopefully I'll be cleared to ride trails by February 1st. But yeah I'm stoked on digging and riding

Is there a thread that teaches you or give you tips on how to setup/build trails?

ComplicatedStreetBmx wrote: Is there a thread that teaches you or give you tips on how to setup/build trails?

check the 2011 trails thread

Ah! new year, new thread....

ComplicatedStreetBmx wrote: Is there a thread that teaches you or give you tips on how to setup/build trails?

its in the how to section,


was hoping a 2012 thread would show up.

one of our first new builds for 2012...

abreezy111 wrote: one of our first new builds for 2012...

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Everyone should post more dirt videos and your setup!

Abreezy that's such a sick line!

I have a couple of rough dirt jumps and i was wondering how steep do you make yours... any tips on how to make them all around amazing woulld be cool

Don't be afraid to put in work. only put quality dirt into your lips and landings.

How steep the lip is depends on what you want. low and long jumps will be less steep than booter/style jumps.

yea i know what you mean by putting work into them we try mixing clay to make the lips harder
we want some steep boster/style jumps but the problem is that we dont have large gaps in between them and we shovled into the ground in between the landing and the take off.. we call them banzi's so we cant move them back sssooo we want to know if we should make them taller and steeper

Read the trails thread in the How To section. Building is trial and error. you can move anything you want, so if is not right, rebuild it. That's part of not being afraid to put in work. Find a jump/gap at your local park and try to copy that.

a tree fell across lines. This is perfectly on the landing...

this is the new trick jump






my man JT on the last pic

i wanna ride the local trails but we have snow

My first day riding dirt this year I went down and screwed my knee ):

love my trails after the snow is gone ill put pics up

abreezy111 wrote:

Dude that is sooo sick. I just moved to the Raleigh area, please message me and let me know where some good trail are to ride if you don't mind. Thanks man.

kr00253 wrote: Dude that is sooo sick. I just moved to the Raleigh area, please message me and let me know where some good trail are to ride if you don't mind. Thanks man.

You're going to have trouble getting people to tell you where trails are in Raleigh, your best bet is to ride sk8 Cary at the 8-10 session and to ride the Crabtree park jumps, you might also want to check out the trianglemtb.com forums.

This is going to sound so stupid, but why is this considered "trails season"

cupovjoe wrote: You're going to have trouble getting people to tell you where trails are in Raleigh, your best bet is to ride sk8 Cary at the 8-10 session and to ride the Crabtree park jumps, you might also want to check out the trianglemtb.com forums.

Yea that's what I have been finding. I went and checked out SK8 cary last week, it was a pretty cool place, unfortunately you have to pay to ride but it's whatever. I'm definitely going to have to check out Crabtree.
Thanks for the info on the trianglemtb forums though man.

JustRideBMX wrote: This is going to sound so stupid, but why is this considered "trails season"

For some people (depending on location) it rains alot more than normal so it's prime time for building with wet dirt.

kr00253 wrote: Dude that is sooo sick. I just moved to the Raleigh area, please message me and let me know where some good trail are to ride if you don't mind. Thanks man.

cupovjoe wrote: You're going to have trouble getting people to tell you where trails are in Raleigh, your best bet is to ride sk8 Cary at the 8-10 session and to ride the Crabtree park jumps, you might also want to check out the trianglemtb.com forums.

kr00253 wrote: Yea that's what I have been finding. I went and checked out SK8 cary last week, it was a pretty cool place, unfortunately you have to pay to ride but it's whatever. I'm definitely going to have to check out Crabtree.
Thanks for the info on the trianglemtb forums though man.

also go to marsh creek park, its free but there's no lights and sometimes the cops kick you out,

im sorry i can't really tell you where the other sets of trails are, i would if i were in charge of them but thats up to other people.

JustRideBMX wrote: This is going to sound so stupid, but why is this considered "trails season"

alex517 wrote: For some people (depending on location) it rains alot more than normal so it's prime time for building with wet dirt.

also in the south its the winter but in the north its the summer,

basically

south= too hot, dirt gets dry

north= too cold, dirt enters freeze thaw cycle, which can kill.

cupovjoe wrote: also go to marsh creek park, its free but there's no lights and sometimes the cops kick you out,

im sorry i can't really tell you where the other sets of trails are, i would if i were in charge of them but thats up to other people.

I understand man. I can totally respect that. Thanks so much for all the info though.

yea, trails!