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Trail building @ Heldekruin

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This past weekend Alex, Brad, and Jon did a little building at the Heldekruin track…

Now that the Galooleys track is shut down due to road works / Gautrain development the Heldekruin hill is pretty much the only place the JHB riders have to ride at the moment. The hill isnt very big and is pretty rocky but despite this is actually a lot of fun to ride. Because its the only spot availble quite a lot of building has been going on in an effort to make the track more challenging and fun.

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The middle section of the track has a flat off camber corner that is really slow, and also leads into a short uphill pedal. Its very hard to carry speed through here so Brad and Alex decided to turn it into a berm. In doing so riders will be able to carry all of their speed from the top section through into the bottom of the track, and make the two sections flow a lot better.

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After an hour or so of moving rocks and digging the finished berm turned out pretty good, and although we didn’t do any high speed runs through it it definitely carries your momentum a lot better. No doubt once it has settled in it will really make the track a lot faster.

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There are a few more ideas for the track in the pipeline and we will keep you updated with them as the track develops.

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7 Responses to “Trail building @ Heldekruin”

  1. shaun roodt Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    well done chaps im ready to smash it at the next race.

  2. Brad Illingworth Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    It was fun building it. With small efforts we can make that track super fast, technical and fun. Respect to Mike, Marnus and Francois for doing most of the work on the new part of the track. As per what Jon mentioned, in JHB we are limited to the hills that we have to work with. So we need to use what we have. By adding more lines we can have a rad hill at Helderkruin!

  3. Francois Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 10:29 pm

    Hey guys, thanks for the work you are putting in on the track and also keeping your members up to date with events and happenings.

  4. mike Says:
    July 22nd, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    what you mean up hill ?

  5. Jon Says:
    July 23rd, 2009 at 8:38 am

    Next time you at heldekruin put your bike at the bottom of that berm and tell me if you roll forward. then we will discuss if its up or down hill. hahahaha

  6. Dricus Pretorius Says:
    September 22nd, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    I want to come this weekend 27Sep. I am from Nelspruit. It is far so I want to ask.

    IS IT GOING TO BE WORTH IT.I am use to Mankele’s track.

    And if its not can I have someones head for it.

    Regards
    Dricus Pretorius

  7. Jon Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 8:16 am

    It should be worth it. The track is a lot shorter then Mankele though but is still a lot of fun.

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