Logwood to close???

[Daft Vader]

Logwood is great' date=' yet for me personally not first on the list as a regular riding spot.

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I have the same feeling about the bike park. It is great, but I'm bored with it.

 

Just wait for the dirt jumps to be finished.  I'm sure you'll still be bored with it.

[turtlek]

 

Logwood is great' date=' yet for me personally not first on the list as a regular riding spot.

[/quote']I have the same feeling about the bike park. It is great, but I'm bored with it.

 

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Just wait for the dirt jumps to be finished.? I'm sure you'll still be bored with it.

 

 

 

If you bored with it you not going fast enough!!!!!!!

 

 

 

but seriously though i like to ride out to logood from kempton and then do about two hours of technical riding then ride home total ride time 6 hours and total riding distance 150km really is a wonderful place but will be sad to see it go

[Tumbleweed]

oh' date=' so you did like it.

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My partner made it bearable*

 

*except for the times that he looked like he was having too much fun whilst I was suffering

 

 

he's a good man, that partner of yours

[markStockton]

Sadly it is official, I just got this mail from Cult Cycling:

 

 

G'Day Mark,

 

Well

I suppose that it is unreasonable of me to expect to have only good

news every time I write. I certainly only have news that it pains me to

bring this time around!

 

Logwood

Bike Haven will close it's doors for the last time this Sunday evening

at 5:30 pm. Early talks indicate that the stake holders in the Toyota

MTN Cycle Park in Bryanston are willing to somehow help out the guys

who have Annual Plates at Logwood that are still valid, and the same

with Multi Visit Cards.

 

I am deeply distressed that the trails will be gone without me ever having a chance to ride them with two bionic hips.

 

If

you want to catch one last ride at a venue that will no doubt become

part of Mountain Bike Mythology, you have until Sunday to do so.

 

Go get the rubber bit muddy,

 

Geoff the Aussie

 

 

[Cal100]

Hi Mark,

It's a very sad day.

[Daft Vader]

Yes, but you will have this to look forward to Daft Vader2009-01-29 02:09:29

[markStockton]

HUGH? 

[Daft Vader]

And a later shot where more work was done...

 

[Cal100]

But where are the trees, single track, roots, rocks, creeks, drop offs, 90 degree turns followed by steep, rutted, rooted drops and down hill bits with trees hanging over?   That's where its at, that's where the fun of Logwood is, er, was.   MTN Park is too linear and a bit sterile.  Don't get me wrong, it has good bits but it's just not got the same vibe.  Maybe it's partly because of the highway or maybe it's just a little too commercial.     I can go to MTN maybe once in every couple of months and enjoy it but I could go to Logwood every week & never fail to have a blast. 

[Cal100]

Me and my mates of the Mongoose Massive will be doing a fairwell tour of Logwood on Saturday meeting at 7:30 for 8am.

It would be great if you all could join us.  Event details are on our facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=58169618551

[Dirtbreath]

Can you believe this. Win one little series, ok two little cricket series and the Aussie gets all miffed. Childish I reckon. Big pity but that place was empty every time I went. Not surprising but big thanks for setting it up and keeping it going for so long.

 

I am sure all of Geoff's efforts can be put into the 4ways park so he can improve it into that "World Class" park everyone is after.

 

[Daft Vader]

location location location.  I believe that is Logwood's shortfall.

[Hog_]

 

location location location.  I believe that is Logwood's shortfall.

 

I have to agree with you on this one. That didn't stop me from driving there weekend after weekend, sometimes on Saturday and Sunday, to do some riding. Tearing through Inner Circle as fast as I could manage, cornering like mad, with a pain in my side and my lungs burning was my little bit of Zen. Approaching those steep ups in Sugarbowl, knowing that my legs have nothing left, yet having to push with all my strength to make sure I get all the way to the top, hitting the drop afterwards, smiling from ear to ear, only to make a few turns and do it again...

 

Logwood was the first place I went riding. Not one of the first, but THE first. The 'Goose was brand new, my shoes as well. I didn't even have padded shorts yet. I decided to pop a wheelie, and when it went sour I couldn't unclip. I fell my ass off, and laughed so hard I couldn't breathe (maybe that was from the crash?). That place holds many, many good memories.

 

While I have been guilty of not going to Logwood since the new park opened (it's RIGHT behind my house, so who can blame me), I'm very sad to see it go.

 

 

 

[Cal100]

Nicely put Hog_  Why not bring the 'Goose on Saturday for one last ride there, we'll be happy for you to roll with us.

[Hog_]

 

Nicely put Hog_  Why not bring the 'Goose on Saturday for one last ride there' date=' we'll be happy for you to roll with us.

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I should be able to make it.

 

It should also be nice riding weather, according to the weather report here: http://weather.24.com/Forecasts.aspx?loc=SA&cityId=77105

 

 

 

 

 

[mistyslav]

logwood closing would be the biggest tradegy ever. i cant believe people think its too far and a 'playground'!! you'll probably find the same people who reckon northern farms is bedda for training climbing off their bikes to carry their bike down the stuff others wanna ride in races, forcing us to walk too. every mountain biker should clock in miles at logwood to improve their technical skills and confidence and we'll see alot more flowing action in events, hence a helluva lot more fun being had. we live in the city and are blessed to have a place like logwood so close, gees i couldn't imagine being a mtb'er without it. the problem is not a place like logwood being too far, its that more places like it need to be everywhere so drop offs and obstacles are seen as a challenge out there and not reasons to unclip and walk...