MMBA: Metro North Chapter » NEWS http://metronorth.mmba.org Chapter News, Updates and Information Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:45:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 2008 Meeting Dates http://metronorth.mmba.org/2008/03/01/2008-meeting-dates/ http://metronorth.mmba.org/2008/03/01/2008-meeting-dates/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:39:40 +0000 Metro North http://metronorth.mmba.org/?p=46 Meeting dates for 2008 have been set and the meeting room at the Rochester Mills Beer Co. has been reserved for the following dates. Meeting time remains at 6:30pm:

April 21, 2008
July 21, 2008
October 20, 2008

Hope to see you there!

Rochester Mills Beer Co.
400 Water Street, Rochester, MI 48307

Map to Rochester Mills

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I want to thank everyone for coming out and helping, and especially to Pete who brought out his jeep with a nice pump system on a trailer, so we could spray down the dirt to make forming the hills easier, and to help pack the dirt. The park also helped by parking a tanker truck with ~ 500 gallons of water for us to use. Don and Mike from the park stopped by to see our progress.

Check below for some pictures from today. Keep you eyes/ears open for announcements of more upcoming trail days.

Trailday Video

Shaping the dirt…

View from the east

East end of track

SW Corner with two exit options

Looking NE from SW corner

Pete’s watering rig

Looking West (and the water tanker that the park supplied)

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Using a front end loader, the employees of Stony Creek moved ~100 yards of dirt, making short work of getting all of the dirt placed for our pump track. They were also able to get some dirt placed to start the FR loop that will be going in this fall also.

Tim posted some pictures of the work that took place. Thanks a BUNCH for taking time off work and helping us to move this project along. Keep your eyes open for announcements here and on the MMBA forums for some upcoming trail days at the skills park.

Here is the first dirt moved around 8:30 am.

More images below….

Here we are an hour or so later, moving along very nicely.

A view from the other direction, looking from the vehicles.

Dan and Rhule (I hope I’m spelling his name correctly)

I’m happy

Starting to shape a section of the pump track

And a couple of panoramic shots of the pump track!

Panoramic #1

Panoramic #2

And finally, the plans for the pump track.

Stony Pump Track Plans

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