We finished the upgrades to Geelslang and Mongoose today. Expect to find some adjustments to your usual ride! Good trail building and easy maintenance is all about managing erosion, specifically from water and braking tyres. Some of the features on Mongoose have come about over the last 2-3 seasons through too much wear from both, and after a dry summer and so far, nearly waterless winter, it has been a waiting game; waiting for enough rain to penetrate the dry granite soil in order to fix up the well-worn tracks. 'Rocky features' are a direct result of erosion ie we did not build them, but in order to stem the erosion we have re-routed the entrance to some of the bends. Expect to find the going soft on some of the new pieces of trail, at least until they are run in and some rain falls (early next week?). Water run-offs are a winter feature that are crucial if the trail surface is not to wash away every time heavy rain falls. You will find them ever 5-10 metres across the entire trail system, whilst we try not to dig cross the entire track, inevitably sometimes it is necessary, resulting in a thumping good ride especially if you ride a hard-tail! They wear down over winter and usually disappear by summer, but without them there would be no navigable trail system. We hope you will find the trails returned to their good state, with better lines to the bends that require less braking and berms to support you as you rail around them ('trust the berm'!).
