New line at Spanish Farm, Helderberg

[ZinaGiN]

Hey

 

Myself and two of my friends have been building a new line in the private piece of land in Spanish Farm on the Helderberg mountain in Somerset West. Some of you may have ridden the older line there before. It has been logged since the fire so we have stated a new one.

 

A the moment its not very long but it takes time with only three people

 

As for permission to do this here, we have bumped into the land own before and he said to us its fine if he doesn't know what we doing. Trails have been here for years and its not owned by the government so its a step in the right direction.

 

We need people to ride the trail to keep it going. Most of us cant get up there enough which is sad. So I wanted to post this up here to hopefully give the trail some exposure. I'm sure most of you will get put off by where it is and shuttling is another problem all on its own.

 

Added some photos, this mountain is very steep and it doesn't show in the photos. Huge potential here! Soil is amazing.

 

The trail will end up connecting with the trail that Greg Minnaar and Steve Peat rode in the Clay Porter video called First.

 

If you interested to ride it in your own time or help us build it or just come have a look and get some eyes on it then send me an email.

 

Cheers

 

daryn16@gmail.com

 

 

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Edited June 13, 2012 by ZinaGiN

[Matts 300]

Wow! Looks great! Can you get to it from the old helderberg road?

[ruib]

I wish we had some of this here in Potch.Looks awesome.

[Hairy]

Have you cleared that road gap?

[ZinaGiN]

Have you cleared that road gap?

 

i was not there when my two friends built the lip. They cleared it but it wasn't really working for the line. So we decided to build the lip further back and land into the road and then one skim off the road into the steep drop. if you cleared the road you had no time to brake into the next section.

 

A huge pine has fallen just behind where that photo was taken Was there yesterday. So we can to make a new plan.

[Hairy]

It also looks like you really do not want to drift to the right into that tree either!

[ZinaGiN]

Have you been there?

 

My friend did that on his first attempt, had a pretty bad fall. We where going to level out the landing but then decided to ditch the gap. Its a lot more fun dropping into that next section.

[Hairy]

I have not been there, but judging from that last pic it looks like things could get nasty with the tree on the right if things go wrong.

 

Based on the other pics at the start of the thread, the trail looks to be on some amazing land.

[ZinaGiN]

Really amazing. Its a pity it all got burnt last year. This part didn't get hit to badly.

[Velouria]

Is that Daniel the Ginger wielding a spade?

[ZinaGiN]

Is that Daniel the Ginger wielding a spade?

 

 

Damn right it is! Haha

[Christopher Brunsdon]

+1

 

Will have to ride that

[ThePubSA]

WD looks really awesome ,so much of stoke

[DNA22]

2 HOURS OF BUILDING FOR 10 METRES OF 2 SEC OF RIDING ....YUP SOUNDS RIGHT KEEP BUILDING STAY OUT OF VIRGIN ACTIVE

[ichnusa]

Please tell me where to start looking for the trails in the area...

[DownhillingKing]

This track is pretty sweet, very nice and smooth and has a couple jumps. Obviously its not complete yet as it is rather short, but the track has loads of potential, I'll definatly be back.