Check it out guys, rolled up to Giant’s Ridge with a crew from MFC yesterday to check out the new DH trail they’ve built! Incredibly fun trail. Take Red Wing flip it on its head, add about 8 billion rocks, a fine dose of roots, then toss in some loamy dirt for good measure. Makes for a about 2:15 second run top to bottom at a pretty good clip! (Thor speed)

We’ll be hosting a race up there the weekend of Sept 10-12th. So come on up and check it out! More details on that coming in the next day or so.

Top to bottom video of Giant’s Ridge DH trail!

Talk about it!

Check it out guys! Brad has got a crew together and permission to build some trails on Mont Du Lac ski hill…check out the video, if you are up in Duluth post up and see if he won’t show ya the trails he’s buildin’! Awesome Brad, be looking to see more as work progresses! Thanks to Spencer from 14Degree for the video!

Holy hell those guys sure know how to dig fast! First build day at the bike park went off with out a hitch it looks like! Ben Blitch is in town for the week building. In two days they got a beautiful looking pump track already done and rideable! Props to the guys at CORP for doin’ this! I’ll be headed up there from Chicago this coming weekend. Be sure to check back for some video of the pump track!

More photos from the build day are at this link! Grabbed it from Quattro over on www.madcitydirt.org!
Pics here!

Location: Pleasant View Golf Course!
Time : 8:00am – 1:00pm Saturday May 15th
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May 15 is our community work day. We will build the pump track and plan to ride it when we’re done.

8 AM is standard club work day time but we will be working all day (and week).

We will have club tools but you may want to bring a shovel and/or clippers for pruning if we have a large turnout.
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If you’re in the Chi swing in and help ‘em out!

Spring is here! First workday of the year this Saturday 4/10. Gettin’ down for the new season. Come on out and help get the park lookin’ pretty again, then we’ll eat some food and hang. This is a perfect time for some newcomers to lend a hand and meet the regulars. It’s gonna be an exciting year for all of us, the more the merrier!

If you’re wondering where Stoughton is, you’re not the only one! I saw this post over on Capital Off Road Pathfinders out of Madison! Its a town about 20 miles south of Madison, looks they are in need of some help to finish up a Dirt Jump park! If you’re from the area go check it out! To toss some dirt contact Brian at baldis44@yahoo.com
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Mongoose Bikes, Schaefer Tracks and the City of Stoughton,WI have teamed up to build an all inclusive bike park to serve the greater Madsion, WI area. Located on the south side of Stoughton in an area called the Mel Bakke Bike Park the facility has been 3 years in the making. Originally the City had allocated the land for bikes because BMX riders were riding the local skateboard park. The first portion of construction began in 2007 and involved pouring a concrete slab and building a series of wood ramps. Adjacent to the ramps sat roughly 2 acres of open dirt area which was never developed until recently when Mongoose and Schaefer Tracks teamed up to aid the City in the building of proper dirt jumps, a pump track and a skills park using 400+ cubic yards of dirt. The bike park is not fully completed, but well underway and should be done this summer. The design is meant to have something for BMX and MTB at all skill levels making it a true bike park and not just a BMX park.

The City of Stoughton has run out of funding for the bike park and all the work provided by Mongoose Bikes and Schaefer Tracks was pro-bono with the aid of local volunteers. Much more is needed to make the bike park the best it can be as well as maintain it into the future. Anyone interested in making a contribution of money or materials should contact Brian Baldis at baldis44@yahoo.com. More work dates will be arranged in the near future to complete the pump track and skills area. Signs will posted on the park gate with work dates and times as well as on the bike park portion of the City of Stoughton web page. Directions from Madison: Take 51 south off the Beltline to Stoughton. Turn right on Page st. Go a couple blocks and look for a park on the right after a 4 way stop.

For more info check out these guys! http://www.madcitydirt.org/

Check it, saw this posted up from Shawn! Looks like he’s lookin’ for a couple riders to step in and help him out! Let us know if you can help out

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Hi Guys,

So here’s the deal… The city of Maple Plain has 1000 yards of clay from the old BMX track, and a new location on Budd Ave. – right next to the water tower – where they would like to build.

I’ve convinced them to abandon the idea of building another BMX track, but rather to build a dirt park. The plan I submitted to them looks a lot like the jumps at Eagan, 3 rows of progressively larger jumps and a pump track. There would be two berms on each end of the 3 tracks.

I met with the City administrator last week to go over the required drainage – I suggested collection at two points on each of the two infield sections, the drainage would run from south to north and drain into a ditch running along the border of the park.

So here’s what they really need, someone to head-up the effort to build and a small group of dedicated people to maintain (the City Council needs to know they have public help on an ongoing basis before they’ll authorized the contstruction. They would like to get the drainage put in, then start hauling the huge pile of dirt from the old location to the new spot).

I’m not able to help this time around, I’m just starting a new biz – and I have very little free time for something like this. I will be there to keep the politics moving and give guidance, but that’s about all I can do.

So, if you live out in the west ‘burbs and you like to ride the dirt – here’s you’re opportunity. I told Jason (@MP) that I’d get the word out and try to round-up a crew.

Let me know if you’re serious.

* Background :: My Father and I were the main promoters/builders of the original BMX racing track in Maple Plain, I have been helping to maintain it for the last 20 years. The track was tore down to install a water treatment facility, and the dirt from the track piled-up behind the city maintanance building for later use. The City of Maple Plain is fully in support of continuing a BMX facility, but they want to know they have someone to maintain it in the long-term.

What do you think?! Can you help?! Let us know!

Sweet t-shirts man!!

Jolly Roger t-shirts are back by popular demand. This year’s colors are red, royal blue, black, and all shirts sport the MFC logo on the back. Shirts are $15 each or 2 for $30…what a deal! They will be available at all Red Wing trail building sessions and Jolly Roger races, if that’s not convenient enough and you’ve just gotta have your fix quick, get a hold of me and we’ll find a way to get one to you before you get the shakes.

All proceeds will go to the benefit of area trails and events.

Collect all 3!

Another great day of trail-building went down today in Red Wing, MN. The new ending was buffed and we closed off the clear right line in the rock garden which should make that section a little more challenging come race day. But the most fun thing we build today in my opinion was a new jump in upper section. It is located after the first switchback, before the rock garden, between the two jumps. We also added a new step-up landing to the first jump in that section.

I’m really excited about this new addition. If you hit the first step-up clean the whole thing flows really well. Don’t worry if you’ll not quite up for attempting the gap yet, the whole thing is safely rollable.

Thanks to Josh, Matt, Nate, Nick, Thor and Tony for all the hard work today. Thanks to Tim for helping us test it out.

So what do you think of the new stuff?

I’ve been slacking on posting last weekends trail-building photos, but here they finally are. I’m impressed with the amount of dirt that five guys can move in a day. Once the landing gets finished this section is going to be fast!

Whadda ya think?