http://kentridge.eaglet.org reinvention at Kent Ridge Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:25:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are moving. After 3 yrs on this trail blog. It's time to consolidate the interesting days on and off the trails at our official blog site. offthebike.dirtraction.com There's more than just trails in our everyday life. We will cover more of the rest on the new platform. thanks for reading. Happy Trails! http://kentridge.eaglet.org/2009/02/06/a-new-site/ Super D, the all mountain fun filled race get featured for the first time in Tampines Bike Park. We've the chance to build it better and slightly more technical than what we can do in Kent Ridge some half a year ago. The track will includes rollers, big berms (inslope turns), a ... http://kentridge.eaglet.org/2009/01/28/super-d-tampines/ We're just got back into Tampines Bike Park just  after Christmas. With 2 months of time for trail work (Feb 14th 2009 being our internal dateline for GO!), it seems that some interesting lines can be placed into Tampines for this coming race. First we've to address a few issues before ... http://kentridge.eaglet.org/2009/01/28/the-making-of-a-carnival/ Some of the todo got going over the 2 weeks the Rock N Roll bad turn   before and after   the China Bowl wall half done watery culvert   http://kentridge.eaglet.org/2007/12/11/fixing-holes-in-monsoon/ We got back to kent ridge to complete one of the fix that we left it half done 2 months ago. giving the snake bend an easier longer path. I got my 3rd finger incident in a month, hate those rock crush. Glove no gloves doesn't matter, it still shread. to be completed .. ... http://kentridge.eaglet.org/2007/12/06/snake-bend-long-loop/ after 2 full weeks of trail building at Ketam Mountain Bike Park, Joey and me took a stroll with Andrew, Angela and Wayne, riding what we build, and marking some of the future todo and prepare for our work report. 2 big sections that need some further work include that bad ... http://kentridge.eaglet.org/2007/11/25/trail-inventory/ Another Saturday and to trail builders like us, more help coming. After one nice lap of warm up ride, the trail crew gathered at Grave Drop again. We split the work among the 15 volunteers, with William, Ellery, Joshua and Nik taking care of the entrance choke and rocks. Ken, Ling, Ming, ... http://kentridge.eaglet.org/2007/11/24/the-grave-drop-complete/ The biggest and last rock section to be build and it simply got to be hand build (ouch!) As the name suggest, the lines will not be easy and will be curvy and lack the flow of the previous stuff we build over the 2 weeks. We started building the drop from ... http://kentridge.eaglet.org/2007/11/23/gravedrop/ A short day indeed. Fatigue set into the whole bunch of trail builders.  I am nursing the daily weightlifting and the 40km round trip daily on my MTB to test the trail, eventually sinking into carbohydrate debt aka 'the body simply can't recover fast enough for the next day' The work force ... http://kentridge.eaglet.org/2007/11/22/the-blue-ridges/ Another rainy day. This doesn't stop William and Ling from joining me in building what we eventually become the start of cobra garden. With almost unlimited supply of granite rocks lying around cobra garden, we placed our effort so to make it longer and better, with interesting drops in mind. A workforce of ... http://kentridge.eaglet.org/2007/11/21/cobra-garden-redux-and-touchy-blue-down/