Posts tagged trailbuilding

XC NPS Course Update

1 year ago

by Morgan in announcement, racing

The MAD NPS crew have been busy all this week planning the season finale to the 2010 NPS.

From laptop programming to branch-lopping, all is going to plan! The bit of rain up on 3Rock this week is expected to have very little effect on the course we have designed and built for the race.

We have trimmed a few minutes of the original lap time by removing some climbs, accelerating/re-aligning some of the singletrack sections, and raking and smoothing out as many sections as we can.

Our intent is to provide the fastest and most fun course of 2010, and that you don’t even remember the climbs – just all the fun stuff! We are incorporating one of the driest forest sections in the whole of Ireland – Rock n Roll! This unique area never gets affected regardless of the weather and is currently dusty dry, a few slower corners have been by-passed to speed-up this whole section.

The open mountain/double track sections have had water channels cut-in and any puddles have been drained off down the hillside, we’ll also will be walking the course on the Saturday with mattocks and spades in hand to tend to any sections. (more…)

Mountain Biking Ireland AGM

3 years ago

by Morgan in access, announcement

The Mountain Biking Ireland AGM will take place at Kilfinane, Co Limerick on Saturday March 1st. The itinerary for the weekend is as follows:

10am – meet main forest car park for a spin around the new trails (3 hours)
1.30pm – lunch/showers
3pm – AGM Ballyhoura forest lodges, Ballyorgan
5pm – Dinner/Social evening

On Sunday there are two events nearby, a duathlon in Limerick city or an XC race in Tracton wood, or another spin around the trails.There is accommodation available in the Ballyhoura forest lodges at €55 – €65 per person for two nights accommodation. Everyone is welcome.
There are plenty of B&B’s also available locally.

The agenda for the AGM is as follows :