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Looks promising

http://www.southerndownhill.com/forum/i ... 932.0.html

So who's down for this now

Karve
Evil
Gladice
chris144
Damo + crew
Leogang Edd and Chris - are a maybe ill chase em up

any more?

So just back from a cool day at UK BP!

Positives

- the uplift is less than 3 minutes top to bottom

- there are 2 cool / challenging DH style (think steeper / rooty / tight corners / off camber / drops / path gap fun) top to bottom runs - called Tsubo and Devils Dyke

- 3 more freeride / jump trails (Wiggly woo, Ali's Finger and Ladder Alley) that all merge into one before the new big crossover bridge over the new uplift route and enter a newly built trail called Big Grin - loads of fun jumps (mainly booters) + gaps + the wall ride / wooden berm thing - really fun to ride once you get your speed right

- there's also a 4x / dual style track with loads of jumps

- I lost count of the number of runs I did but managed well over 20 runs in the day

- good bacon and egg roll at lunch

- dries quickly after rain

Negatives

- need a few more tracks to give it a bit more variety (but chatting to Paul and Wayne they'e got plenty of plans for more tracks over next year)

- runs are quite quick / short - c. 2-3 mins

- damn slippery after rain due to its Aston-Hill like chalk soil

Overall - really enjoyed it - definitely has Aston flavour to it but with more jumps and features - and with the fast uplift you can get Alpine levels of riding in a day with no waiting around for the uplift. Think this place will be amazing once they've finished building some more trails - but even now a really fun place to ride.

Probably just about on a par with FoD / Triscombe, and certainly better than Cwmcarn, and think it will surpass iboth of these once building is complete as there's more progression opportunities at UKBP

Sounds good, looking forward to it even more.

Great write up mate! Sounds a lot better than I had hoped for - a couple more tracks and it could be killer!

Oh stop it, really cant wait now.. Some of my lot are doing a 3 day camp there (nutters) but we are doing a day trip. There will be about 12 of us lot so should be a goodie with lots of footage..

Looks like it could be a wet one, bring on le carn-age.

Where u getting ur forecast from Joel? doesnt look to bad at the mo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/4171?area=DT11
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/E ... /long.html

will be a comedy fest if it does

Hey jon how are you getting down on sunday? Let me know mate and we can sort transport between us

Have a goon one tomorrow guys and get plenty of pics

Travelling down with chris144 - ill PM you my number!

Hope you guys had a fantastic day

It was a great day! - pics an vids to come - cheers to damo for this one!

Great fun, looking forward to the boostylicious footage

Pics and vids below - not much to add to Northerns description as he got it spot on - it started out wet but dried quickly however all the off camber roots remained lethal for the rest of the day. Big grin just got more and more fun as we got it dialed. A wicked ruin to practise jumping. That place has so much potential that with a couple more tracks it will be epic!