Featuring Ed from Great Rock on part of the Gisburn Blue route and the Hope Line, as well as some of the delights of the Forest of Bowland. The video was made by Whitenosugar TV
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‘Hope Line’ video
Here’s a new Gisburn Forest video featuring the new Hope Line trail that we’ve been involved with the building of. There’s also some other bits of trail from the forest in there too. It just shows what a great place Gisburn is to ride at….and it’s getting better all the time.
May
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May
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New bikes & sunny trails
In the shop
Both Tim and myself turned up with bikes that we’d each built up yesterday. Here’s my shiny Labyrinth Agile and Tim’s Santa Cruz Bullit. We shot out to get first mud on the bikes and then got down to work trail building on the ‘Hope Line’. We marked out the trail all the way down to the bottom of the hillside from the table tops and did some fine tuning to the top section.
May
16
Photos from the Great Rock advanced mountain bike skills weekend
Julie on a rock line in the quarry
Paul riding the steep roll in bank
Pete on the downhill track drop offs
May
12
Skills trail at Gisburn Forest
Here’s a report on the new Freeride Line / Skills Trail that we’ve built in the forest. Written by Ed from Great Rock mountain bike skills.
This is just a taster of the new skills trail at Gisburn Forest. It’s a work in progress at the moment and the working title for the trail is the ‘Hope Line’ because Hope Technology have sponsored the trail. The trail isn’t finished yet, but it is rideable as long as you watch out for when it just comes to an end!
Back in 2009 we walked out a line in the forest. We wanted a fun, flowy, pumpy, jumpy, bermy, bike-park-alike line. We needed shelter from the wind so that the trail was usable all the time, which is often a problem with jump tracks in our area. We also wanted the trail to be rideable by people on normal trail bikes and not just downhill bikes. As a skills trainer I wanted a trail to teach skills on, especially the art of pumping and jumping. Back then the section in the video above looked like this…..
With the backing of the Forestry Commission we set about building the trail with the help of volunteers. Later Hope Technology said they wanted to get involved and paid for Dan and Ben Hemmingway of Hemmingway Plant Hire to come in and put in some bigger features with machinery. Those boys did a great job and we’ve now got a cool little trail. Myself, Tim from Gisburn Forest Bikes and Martin College from Forestry visited the new Hope Technology factory yesterday and met co-owner Ian Weatherill. He came out to Gisburn with us and his lad William and we had a ride down the trail. It was a very positive day and we can look forward to getting a great finished trail, all tidied up and with a Hope archway as the entrance to the trail.
Ian & William from Hope with Martin from Forestr
We will still need the help of volunteers to carry on the work and there is a regular dig day on the last Sunday of every month. We meet at the pub at 9.30am.
Tim the flying landlord
The Hope Line will be used for Great Rock courses such as The Flow, Jumps for Dads, Women’s Jumps & Drop Offs.
Apr
21
Another sunny bank holiday weekend
trails dryand dusty.
Apr
21
New freeride area
The new free ride area is well under way with help from Martin Collage head forester at Gisburn Hope Tec who have funded the contractors Dan and Ben Hemmingway of Hemmingway plant hire and many volenteers a meeting mid may will iron out a way of finishing it with the contractors. Watch this space
Apr
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12 hour mountain bike race
A 12 hour montain bike race the Dirty Dozen will start from Gisburn forest bikes on saturday the11th of june for more info visit epicevents.co.uk
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