Welcome back you beautiful people. Today's a very special day
I am gonna hang out with the bike park trail crew and I spent a whole day with these dudes
Following them around helping them maintain or build a new trail
I know they're doing some work on a few of the trails resurfacing and I heard that one of these trails is actually
Gonna be but they get nice neat needs as a guinea pig. So I'm gonna go around with these dudes and I'm gonna
Introduce you to them and show the ins and outs of what goes on at a bike park just like this one in Wales
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We're gonna find the trail crew is uhh we're gonna follow these guys around and see what they get up to bike park Wales
I think this is the place
look
What's occurring there's a name of a trail to show office open, but we'll find out. Here's the crew
getting ready
you ready boys
Blake: What are you doing? Worker: reaching up full the full suspension components on here just to keep it over a minute
This is crew heading out now we're gonna catch gonna get on the truck and then go up
Nick where are we off to
Driver: We're going to willy waiver and pork-belly Blake: we're going to pork-belly because they're doing some maintenance on that
So you're gonna see what the trail crew doing there and then we're gonna move over
To somewhere else to resurface it... on willy waiver
Driver:Yeah, and they never reach Blake: nice
Safety first dude
pork-belly maintenance
Resurfacing and reshaped by laser new flurry jump sections a nice, right?
Let's go and see what the crew are up to Oh looks good
Nearly sinkholes appeared
Just built this new bit of trail. And freshly kept this Bank fat back and a sinkhole appeared in the heavy rain
So we've dug it out filled it with pudding stone. They just need to top it up. Now. You level it back off
Nice don't flex em all give you Simpson anything ya do
Nice nice
Okay, the trail crew do work
Extremely hard and especially with this bit
Who's Pat in this you pack in it sprayed working out. I've got another boy Ricky as well
He's done a good there ten hours was whacking Blake: like look at it
Look at oh man. Look at that hip let's go. Look at that now just think this is your job
Building the coolest trails ever. Look at that
Blake: man!! Worker:that's all been running off with the wacker patted in there by hand and a shovel Blake:WHAT!!
Blake:Now that is a while weld you sprained worker: that's been welded twice Blake: twice!!
Blake:That took two two three weeks to refurb this trail. I remember riding this trail when It was just like
natural raw
Blake:Rocky worker: yeah Blake:with a few gaps in down there. Worker:Yeah Blake: I can step down in a big step in
Worker:Yeah, Blake:oh you've redone that down there OH.
Blake: Love a step down look at that. Worker:Yeah, you should be coming down here pretty fast
Worker: Yeah, the big gap to the chute and then do the transfer and then for the win
Blake: Nice eyes beast... chicken
Blake: Gusta. Worker: Buster Blake: oh Buster chicken buster, so no chicken runs here. You have to drop this
Throughout Willie waiver and what they're doing here is they're resurfacing this trail. This trail is super fast super flowy
It's a blue, but it's fun
Worker:Ya got a bit left and all that sort of blocks from underneath for showing through so we'll take all them
Worker: I add a few more berms and a few more features while we're there
Blake:Do you put little challengeable gaps in because when you're building a trail. sometimes we call them, worker: sweeteners?Blake: Yeah, sweeteners
Worker: Yeah, it'd be kind of safe to ride for everyone of all grades. Yeah, if you're good enough we can see the landing
Blake: Yeah, so Billy's working with the digger. Billy: Hi
So these are the original guys who started building the trails
Blake: Now the question, worker:right Blake: that everyone might be wanting to know who names the trails and where are these Willie waver?
I hope the tipping
Pork-belly. Yeah, they come from him. What's the other one because
Terry's belly
we do a pole low anomaly does a pole where he asks all the staff to come up with names and
Then I'll bee lucky enough to get three through of that wibbly-wobbly and certain bird and then Terry's belly
Which is named after one of our old digger drivers were out there
Yeah, Terry he's quite a portly chap. Yeah. No, he didn't mind though, he's quite proud of it was all photos and send you
Yeah, him and Oli driving the quad around like an arm chair
It's a hive of activity at the bike park today you got digger training they resurfacing trails over there
They're working on the main road turning it into like a dual carriageway for up
Back in the ATV now. Now We are heading where?
the guys on their digger tested a
surprise image
That's good for they're doing a digger test a little bit on a mining it
What was that elevate drill bit on Aaron it?
I don't know what he said ? Oh
hell of a drill drill bit no. Yes. Yeah
So it's not all about trail building
It's also about maintaining the bike parking herself to make it a little bit more easier for everyone to be on their uplift
How does this job gonna be harder than we thought it was gonna be we have this lovely new bit of equipment that was
supposed to make our job nice and easy and it's making it easier but
Not as easy as we like it to be. Yeah
So find a big beard, I'll be going like oh my dear what do you do you
My lunch is over and after building pretty much all
Morning, I haven't done mike has been but now it's time to test
See if it works. If not lean. You can dig it. Yeah
What do you think of the trail? Yeah good, I
Built it. But yeah, he's nice
You know flows well runs nice a fashion or peddling
Into the dragon, it's a black
It's closed but not for us
Now this is what gets my juices
Flowing now the trail crew this is they job they make stuff. Oh my gosh that's deep
It's pretty cool for that high five
Done. That's what you call grass matter
Oh
My gosh, so the top section of Enter the Dragon
Pretty good thumbs up thumbs up to tick that off. Yeah, take the shark fins. Take a day in the life of a trail
The trail crew dig in the morning kind of get it finished test out sections ride your bike
And carry on digging or carry on riding the trails finished so good
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What's prettiest up seven core to eight yeah familiar. That's a long day, right? We'll finish we're off the mountain Duncan
I had a nice little shred down to finish it off the day
There you go day in the life of the trail crew at Bike Park Wales. We've got Billy we got Stew
We've got Duncan and we got Ricky mine all out here giving giving you guys the fun and myself all these trails to ride
Thank you very much guys
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