Sinister Bikes VIETNAM Trail Day #2 Saturday 6/14

[If_Rider]

Sinister Bikes VIETNAM Trail Day #2

Saturday, June 14, 2008


Come out, get dirty and maybe you’ll win a beautiful Gruitr frame from Sinister Bikes!! All participants will be entered to win.

Please join us for the second Sinister Bikes Vietnam trail care day of 2008. We will be tuning and tweaking TNT. We are hoping to finish up a few TTF's and start some new ones!

When: Saturday, June 14th, 9:00am to 3:00pm

Where: We will meet at the parking lot behind Wendy’s in Milford on Rt. 85 near Rt. 495, at 8:45AM.

What Else:
Please bring water, work gloves and bug spray (long pants and work boots are recommended). Bring your bike too if you’d like to ride afterwards.
Tools and lunch will be provided.

For questions, please email us: nemba-vlmc@googlegroups.com (nemba-vlmc@googlegroups.com)

The VLMC (Vietnam Land Management Committee)

[If_Rider]

It's this Saturday!

[If_Rider]

Tomorrow is the Nam trailday. Even if you only have a couple hours to spare, we could use the help.

Mike

[dirtrider2]

Hope to see you out there, we've got a lot of really cool things up our sleeve for Rubber Stamp (TNT) today!

Dave

[If_Rider]

We had a small turnout Saturday but we made some good progress.

Big thanks to Laura, Al, Josh, Pete, AJ, Kevin, DR, Splat's Son Peter and the rest of the regulars (Eammon, Donny, Dave, Steve, Vos and Splat) for taking time away from their busy lives on Saturday to come out and dig.

Photos courtesy of Splat.

We worked on TNT, now affectionately know as "Rubber Stamp".

This is a small hit that got a new transition and a new runin.

Before:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw02.jpg
Dave working on the transition:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw06.jpg

Peter riding the finished tranny:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw13.jpg

The new runin:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw14.jpg

A nearly dead tree leaning at a precarious angle was sacrificed to log the runin:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw05.jpg


This tranny needed a little love....before:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw07.jpg

Peter test rides it after:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw08.jpg

Donny working on drainage for the big Berm that's getting a much needed facelift:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw09.jpg

Eammon, AJ and Kevin working on adding some more height to the Berm:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw10.jpg


Donny and Peter mining rock for the berm:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw11.jpg

[If_Rider]

Al and Josh smoothing out the runout after Shark rock...
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw04.jpg

that leads into this small berm that got a facelift from DR (pictured) and Steve with Al and Josh feeding them a steady diet of dirt.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/jgoeller/trailwork/june14/tw03.jpg

We still have some touchup to do but it was a productive day.

Thanks again to everyone who came out.

Mike

[steve_b]

Some supplemental pics.....

Start of the trail day:

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/9868/startna8.jpg

The same berm where DR was working, deconstructed:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3513/rebuildtj3.jpg

Reconstructed:

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9762/beforepw6.jpg
http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/4751/aftercz6.jpg

Another, bigger berm further up the trail that we are builder higher due to the speed you carry into it:

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8764/buildingupuo7.jpg
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/7186/buildingup3pq1.jpg
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3360/buildingup2bi9.jpg

The backside support for the berm - all granite:

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/892/backsideyr1.jpg

Al and Josh fixing and tamping the trail:

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/8662/tampingzv1.jpg

And last, but not least - big thanks to the SE Mass chapter for the loan of the trailer and tools:

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7492/semassle5.jpg

[Mntbiker13]

Looks great