Friday FMFT Trail Building Solutions

We’ve already mentioned this week that FMFT like an engineering solution. Aside from the developments in the world of bike design we are entirely in favour of a neat solution to a tricky trail obstacle. On the secret singletrack we had just such a problem:

The problem.

A fallen tree, with no way round. The height to get onto the trunk is around a foot and the drop the other side pushing 2 ½ feet. Awkward to say the least.

Now, one solution would be to develop our riding skills until we had the trials hoppy-ness required to get onto and over the log. However, not only are we not really that patient, but also it would definitely break the flow of the ride. Instead we present to you the FMFT engineering solution:

This comprises a ramp, lovingly constructed by two of the four hands of FMFT, to give the elevation, and concrete and logs, carefully collected and assembled to take some of the kick out of the drop. We still think it would count as a “TTF” in the trail centre world, but it suddenly makes the log possible, if not too easy, to ride.

The proof, as they would say if they were mountain bikers, is in the riding, and so we did. Some aborted runs followed:

But we were soon over the obstacle, and even wondering how to make it a touch more technical. We’ll be back to do it faster and better but this feel like an early morning well spent so far.

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