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Look at this. If you look around you can get a map with all the soil types in Kent. Good for finding a good place to build trails. There’s a map key on the left. You have to look around for a while to find it all but it’s worth it.

This is a map of hampshire for Rory. It’s barend jam Sunday but I won’t be there I am afraid.

Tim broke his arm again doing this trick. He didn’t land that heavily on it, but the plate on his bone, and the screws through it didn’t allow the bone to flex as it should, causing it to snap. Fortunatly the docotors have realised that plates are not a good idea and have agreed to take this one out and not put a new one in. So at least there won’t be a plate in there anymore.

Unfortunatly this means Tim has to have another operation, with another cut through the scar in his arm, another 6 weeks in plaster and another 6 months waiting for the feeling to come back into his hand. I don’t know if he’ll want to ride again when it’s fixed.

This month has been good for trails so far. Bit too much rain the last few days which is a shame.

There are also some rubbish pictures of Sittingbourne up if you are really bored.

Updating is hard work. I can’t be bothered, so here is a photo from yesterday:

That’s your lot for now.

Here is a picture from the last few days. Too tired to update properly now. Night night internet.

Right let me get straight to the point. Anyone who has their own trails knows how much work they take. It’s not just a case of digging some jumps for a few hours in January, there is the constant task of maintainence. This becomes an especially big job when a lot of people come and ride your jumps.

This endless task of maintaining trails is not something that anyone enjoys, but it’s the price you pay for having something good to ride on your doorstep. This is why it’s important for everyone who rides the jumps to do their bit in looking after them.

The following people helped dig at Tenterden yesterday: Tom, Nigel, Dean, Rob, Myself, Greg, Joe and Tim. In fact Jonny C did a few shovels as well.

Trail bosses Tom and Nigel were there from about 10 and got stupid amounts done.

Evidently no-one else cares enough about the trails to want to ride them anymore. This is actually fair enough, for example, Paul has quit riding trails since he knocked himself out. We didn’t expect him to help out since he’s not down there anymore.

[This obviously does not apply to people who don’t ride in Tenterden – what’s the point in digging somewhere if you aren’t going to ride them.]

Rant over.

Car Living: This is an interesting way to save some money. Something that the BMX world calls a road trip.

Twenty Questions: A fun website. Try and think of an object that it can’t guess.

House Price Crash: House prices are falling, like it or not. It will take five years maybe for them to be sensible prices again, but it’s happening.

Ashford Borough Council: Ok so that one isn’t interesting, but I overheard someone saying earlier that it was a terrible website, it didn’t even have their phone number on it. In the end they looked it up in the phone book. What’s that right in the middle of the front page? Oh look, the telephone number. Numpties.

One more to add to the list:

Gunther Anderson: This guy is a legend. Look around his websites. He has 1000 decks of playing cards, and he has listed them for us to see. He has listed all the films he owns, or would like to own, and to top it all off there is a picture of his cat. Funniest website ever?

Saturday is Tenterden digging jam. I know a lot of people that have ridden these trails but never dug there and it’s pretty crappy, so go and give something back. If there’s one thing I would like to get done it’s the 3rd landing in the big line.

See you there.