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When do you start building Brockham?
Personally in 2008/9 I had rode a few times previously. Brockham was originally started in around 2003/4 I think! Should really know that. When I started there was 4 jumps in the small line and 6 in the main.
Now we have around 50 jumps in total.
Who started it?
A guy called Alex Woolman found the spot, started to build but soon stopped. Dom Haigh and a few others had heard about it shortly after the infamous BK trails were knocked down and they soon started work building in the opposite direction to Alex.
Who is maintaining actually the trail?
Currently we are low on locals, most of the time it's:
Christian Kile
Although there is a few more less regular guys who help out.
You spend more time digging or riding?
With the typical English weather it's probably a 50/50 ratio. Although maybe a bit more digging!
"The past summer I had the opotunity to visit this great trail and decide to show it."
Here some questions to the #Brockhamtrailscrew.
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How do you take the decisions when you built a new jump?
We tend to decided as group what we are going to do. Generally the more you dig the more input you get. How it goes with most spots I imagine.
When start the idea of building the longest jumps in UK?
I would have to ask Dom that, but since I've dug at Brockham he always wanted to build a line to the bottom of the hill. We started to build the last set early 2011. His idea was ridiculous when we were building it I never really thought we would finish it. It's amazing to see it now. I love it when new people come to the woods and see it. Priceless expression everytime.
How is your clay? Do you prefer other tipe of clay?
It can be very hard to work with and tends to fall down a lot in the winter. We're all used to working with it though and know what needs to be done with it. We use a few different types of dirt from around the woods depending on what we are doing. The clay at the top of the woods is better for the final layer. It seems to hold together better and is less prone to cracking.
We know about you watering system, are you going to modernize it?
No we don't plan to. We have no water supply or electricity. What we have works well for us. We have an endless supply of water which is pretty lucky! Would be a pain to carry water in every time. We found just outside the woods the ground was pretty wet, dug a hole and it filled with water. That is the piped to another very big hole and it constantly drips in. We're pretty sure it's a swimming pool overflow from a nearby house.
What is you motivation to still building jumps?
It's an endless cycle of wanting to improve the trails! Nothing is ever perfect and we keep building to make the trails better.
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About the place of the trail, is it rented or not?
We are pretty fortunate. For a long time we just built on the land without a care who owned it! When he found it he wasn't best pleased. We've come to an arrangement now of leasing the land of the owner. He's ok with what we are doing and we have an insurance policy to cover us riding the trails and anyone who walks on the land.
Do you have any problem of vandalism?
In the past we have had many cases of vandalism. Catching them in act is great! We haven't had any for a while now so probably are due some soon. There was one group who had a fascination with burning tarpaulins. Was not ideal, one of them left his driving license. When a few guys showed up at his house they didn't come back again.
Are you going to increase the number of jumps in the lines? In what line and how?
I don't think we have any plans to at the moment. We have a lot of jumps now. There are many ideas to improve what we have, so I can't see many new jumps being built with the work we have planned.
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"The place is magnific, it's save of the wind and give you the feeling of being in the middle of the forest."
TOM ADAM :
"Back in 2010/2011, Adam Green, Luke Brightman and I, along with a few others, found a spot of land about a 2 minute walk from Brockham trails and started to dig there one day in the middle of summer.
The older guys from Brockham must have found out and came down to ask if we wanted to help out at Brockham trails.
The first few times we went down, we stayed separate and started on the small line whilst the other guys were working on the big line.
However, we had no idea what we were doing and did some dumb things like leaving a broken spade in the face of a lip because we thought it would be cool.
The older guys must have told us that it was shit, so we started building together and learning from them how to make jumps properly.
This has carried on up until now!
Unfortunately now, we're all growing up and starting to get full time jobs, have kids, buy houses or go to university, which means we need a new generation of locals to come down and help out! "
Definetly I recomend to visit this place and enjoy the time with the friendly locals with a great trail philosophy.
I would say thanks to all the crew and specially to Jonny Faulkner and Dan Curtis for the colaboration.
A big hug from wars of flow.