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Title: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on October 17, 2005, 04:22 PM

Big up to everyone who pulled their finger out and worked on and got the ball rolling to create the best lookin track ive seen, cant wait for it to be finished dudes.  Welldone

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: mightymini on October 17, 2005, 06:15 PM

ive started working up there now  :D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: steveN on October 17, 2005, 06:32 PM

Thats not what the contractors said, it must be the day they have done the least work. At least the entrance to the first berm is now sorted. Will you be visiting anymore this week Mark?

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: mightymini on October 17, 2005, 06:35 PM

yeh iam up there tomorrow working my magic  :o

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on October 17, 2005, 07:39 PM

dig faster!  ;D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: mightymini on October 18, 2005, 06:35 PM

we got a new first double its massive its new school and it was all steves idea i tried to stop him ???

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on October 18, 2005, 06:48 PM

first double? ??? where? on the last straight dude? please not first straight. show me piccy please, please pretty please :)

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: mightymini on October 18, 2005, 07:06 PM

first staight first double, you couldnt pedal fast enough and its definately not forgiving.

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on October 18, 2005, 07:10 PM

you must be takin the PI^% dude, theres not enough room! you are windin me up arn ye? you makin me bite like a rabid yorkshire terrier arn ye dude, just windin me up ye BAST%*&! ;D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: mightymini on October 18, 2005, 07:15 PM

god know they must be 14 feet high and very long they have had to shorten the table top to a speed roller to get them to, how did steve put it "work"

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on October 18, 2005, 07:34 PM

wuuuuuuuhuuuuhuuuhooooohahaha very funny dude, didnt believe ye for a second, what de ye fink i am stoopid or sumink?(dont answer that). :D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: mightymini on October 18, 2005, 07:47 PM

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) :D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on October 18, 2005, 07:53 PM

oh hardy fookin ha ha! you need to lie faster, im very forgiving blardy blardy blah blah etc etc.......... :D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: steveN on October 18, 2005, 08:05 PM

O Bruised one do not panic. The doubles are slighty higher and now have some shape to them. All I can say is that the workmen have adopted Gary's work ethos so there is no way they can be much bigger in 2 days.

Steve :D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on October 18, 2005, 08:24 PM

im surprised they can form words never mind talk. (tell them bren said that) ;D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on October 18, 2005, 08:26 PM

i fin work at five on thurs so im gettin armoured up and havin a go, ye cant break whats already broken can ye! bet its lashin down and windy as foooook! :D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: Eddy on October 18, 2005, 09:24 PM

Quote from: OrgasmDonor on October 18, 2005, 08:26 PM

bet its lashin down and windy as foooook! :D

Does it ever do anything else up ole summerhill??
I like the way how one day ya can do the quad and sail the bigun at the end of the 3rd straight and other days no matter how hard ya try ya can hardly clear the quad!Gota love the wind, Vornie doesnt like, got blew off his bike in mid air on the last bit of the quad, he can confirm (as can I )that the surface hurts when hit at speed.  Sod the big jump anyways, do the step up, its class!!

Though I do have serious reservations about the new work gang, they seem more willing to learn Pujabi than use a diesel whacker to whack the track, am up tommorow as soon as am done sigining on (live the dream!), gonna do the whole surfacing meself if I have to, am dammed if anyone is gonna balls this thing up for the 4th time, not on my whatch damit!

Jump in question:

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild54.jpg)

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild55.jpg)

The new entrance to the burm

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild53.jpg)

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: mightymini on October 18, 2005, 11:34 PM

iam claiming that berm and doubles  ;D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on October 19, 2005, 12:35 PM

they will be jumped tom night, weather and ribs permitting, if not you can have them mr mini dude. ;D it is lookin  8) mind, ooooooh yeah!

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: Eddy on October 19, 2005, 06:01 PM

Ok then people
Surface has gone down on the 1st and 2nd straight, it aint down properly yet on the 2nd straight but seems to have took well on the first, that double is mint now and fully rideable, should habe second straight finished tomorow and maybe even the 1st burm

In slightly worse news the contractors are leaving on Friday, potentially for good.  Apparently conditions on site are such that they cant whack the surface in right, total load of bollox if you ask me, I aint ever met a bunch of people so against doing any work, me and rob ended up pulling the whacker over the 1st double because we were so sick of nothing being done.  I can say certainly that the burms are not going to be whacked right, they refuse to use the diesel whacker for anything and that the entire track is getting "one 25mm dusting and thats it"
When we asked why they replied "because thats what it says on the sheet".  Its a constant uphill battle against them and is so annoying when you know how the surface needs to be applied and yet they wouldnt do it they way you ask.

Seems the roller can go over pretty much everything, managed to do 90% of the second straight with it and not damage the jumps underneath, all the lips are still there and still spot on, I think they may be realising (slowly) that they may need more than "25mm and one pass", this should be an issue really as there is 150 ton of surface being delivered to the car park over the next few days.

Sadly though I still have zero confidence in their abilities to apply it right to the track, without me being there holding their hands or doing it ourselves they will use that shyte petrol whacker instead of the diesel on and we aint getting anymore than 1 surface coating, no matter how much me, rob or ste tell them its a waste of time only putting one down

RIP summerhill, so near yet so far

If you wanna see how good it could have looked get up there asap before the little bastards come with their pedals and shyte bikes and ruin it all for us

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: mightymini on October 19, 2005, 08:26 PM

wtf is going on, what did tony say, they wont even finish the track by friday. iam working tomorrow but will pop up on my way home. there seems to have been a hell of a mood change with the contractors, when i was there they were enthusiastic about the whole thing.

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on October 21, 2005, 11:59 AM

Mr mm, u got pm dude :)

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: Eddy on October 26, 2005, 05:58 PM

Here's some pics from today, the surfacing doesnt seem to be rutting up as bad as it did the earlier in the week, seems to be settiling down fin.  However some kids have decided to ruin the take off for the step up whilst trying to make it better (highly usefull of them)

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild56.jpg)
Good job there lads, we have no idea who it is but they are using a spade
(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild57.jpg)
They also messed around with the table top
(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild58.jpg)
The new double at the end of the 1st straight
(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild59.jpg)
Some more pics
(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild60.jpg)

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: Bren Gunn on October 26, 2005, 06:39 PM

Track looks great :)

Is that the bloke out of Mr Ben, he used to pop up all the time as well ;D

Bren

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: Eddy on October 26, 2005, 06:51 PM

Thats big rob, he is my scale measurment on about 90% of the build pics, its kinda like a measuing stick but a bit easier to direct and use

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: mightymini on October 26, 2005, 06:56 PM

Quote from: Eddy on October 26, 2005, 06:51 PM

Thats big rob, he is my scale measurment on about 90% of the build pics, its kinda like a measuing stick but a bit easier to direct and use

thought you said he was a dip stick

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: steveN on October 26, 2005, 07:22 PM

Mark, You have got the wrong person he works for the contractors.

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: mightymini on October 26, 2005, 11:07 PM

surely that would be the plural, dip sticks  ;)

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: steveN on October 31, 2005, 04:51 PM

Rob,Eddy and myself had a meeting with the council and the contractors today in order to get the work started again after the break over half term. Things are looking very positive with the contractors coming back on site on Wednesday to finish the shaping and the surfacing. The surfacing problems have been overcome with the top surface setting very hard.
The meeting on Saturday with a view to form a club is looking positive with numerous enquires being made.

Steve Noble

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on November 01, 2005, 08:36 PM

what type of meetin is it dude? its not doggin is it? hope not , got loads of trophys for that :D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: Eddy on November 01, 2005, 10:03 PM

Funny you should mention dogging actually, I think it was the last Weds track sesh of 05 (oh the memories come flooding back..) and there was a couple doing the wild thing in a white Corsa in the car park.  She was proper blonde and chubby (every bit a decent hartlepudlian lass)

Where were you today anyways?  That tailwind made the table top clearble in less than 3 pedals, I also landed somewhere near the bottom of the landing for the first double.  I also seen Rob's wheels leave the floor for the first time since may, was quite an occasion, wish I had the camera to take a pic!

The dogging, erm sorry, meeting is probably gonna be in the changing rooms at the visitors center (make your own conclusions here folks), gonna get some oranges and a gruff northern fella to yell team tactics at us and draw lines on a white board or sumthing

See yas there and will keep every updated on the situation with the construction works at the track this week, dudes from Seymours say it will be done in by next Thursday, un convinced of Hartlepool here thinks otherwise like....

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: OrgasmDonor on November 02, 2005, 09:33 AM

ive been and still am poorly broken dude, but will be there sat for def, just to see how things are healin, did you like my corsa then? :D

Title: Re: Hartlepool Track
Post by: Eddy on November 03, 2005, 05:17 PM

Contractors came back to finish the job on weds, cue the heavens to open
(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild62.jpg)

This the the 3rd straight, the brumy contractor fella drove the dumper over the quad, keith went ape shit

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild63.jpg)

Attempting to whack anything seems equally pointless

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild64.jpg)

Here's the proof I do actually do work when I go up there

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild65.jpg)

Trying to sort the profile out on the tripple

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild66.jpg)

Re profiled step up looks class now

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild67.jpg)

After messing the surface up he decided to dig the burm up

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild68.jpg)

Tis starting to look well yellow from the bottom now

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild69.jpg)

Sub going onto the 3rd burm

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild70.jpg)

Surface going onto the 4th straight

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild71.jpg)

Conditions on course were good to firm....

(http://www.usmbcworld.co.uk/summerhill/pics/shillrebuild72.jpg)

The re-profiled tripple, am well proud of the shape this is now

So thats about it
I will put this in as simple terms as I can, if it doesnt stop raining then the track will not get whacked.  Its too wet to do anything with at the moment.  We need one dry day to get the roller over it all and let it settle, am hopefull this day will come but if it doesnt stop raining I really dunno what will happen.  This place seems to go from bad to worse to worse than worse

One dejected and soaking Eddy