Black Canon Collective

Category: BCC

  • the subtle nuances of urban recycling

    Well despite the forecast the weather was fine, in fact it was a wonderful day to be at the allotment. For those who chose indoor in favour of outdoor – well, you missed out. Plenty got done and we had a good time doing. We now have a great new race line on spoons with a nice little rock garden. I say *little* because compared to those found on rockier slopes it’s not much of a feature – BUT given our loamy location you’d be encouraged to focus upon the sheer determination required to locate and assemble such a collection of rocks. Sure it all looks a little muddy right now, but one shower and every stone will shine through.
    The corners before will offer some flat out drifty lushness and will develop as they get ridden over the next few months. Nothing completely new, just subtle tweaks to make it all knit together with flow.
    As for the rest of the allotment; we sorted every bit of drainage de-clogging old and cutting new to keep the trails running sweet come rain or shine.
    Thanks to those that came and did, hope to see some more of you next time….

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  • Easy breezy ride

    Ok , it’s not an epic or weekly club event but it was arranged through the club forum and is open to all…

    This weeks “easy breezy” Saturday club ride was well attended by ….. Err…… Me and and Al , silly really as the weather window Al predicted came good and we had a proper sunny one !

    Shame on all you folk’s with better things to do like trawling the aisles at Sainsbury’s and taking the kids to ballet etc – you really need to get your priorities sorted !

    Starting from the BCC car park (closer to home than the H & G) we rode down into the darkiside/doodles area and made a safer entry to the area from the road that we can use in future, no undergrowth was harmed in the making of this entrance , in fact it was more a case of making the existing moss and twigs more comfortable. – and it’s less visible and safer to enter from the road !

    We then rode around a bit trying to link all the bits of sweet singletrack together in that side of the woods – we even found a boardwalk (well sort of) to try if we can find it again on Tuesday

    Down the road road, along crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon and sidewinder
    etc, etc ( oh yes Al has names for all of them ) and back to the without incident or bus collisions.

    Don’t forget it’s Wales next Sunday wooohooo!

  • DIG DAY THIS SUNDAY

    We’ve got a rock garden to build and we’re gonna need all the help we can get!

    Bring food, drink and a neanderthal like obsession for stones.

    10-4 down the Allotment.

  • Cobble Wobble 2010

    Many of you will know that the Black Canon Collective were the people who, on the day, made the Cobble Wobble run smoothly (both this year and last). Check out this great video produced by Charge Bikes and Red Bull to showcase the event…

    …not bad ey? I’d like to say a massive thank you too all the BCC members who worked so hard over the whole day – the event wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for you.

    www.cobblewobble.co.uk

  • Tickertape DH Jam tomorrow, 18th Sep.

    For those that didn’t know, I apologise for not posting several days ago.

    Tomorrow is our monthly Tickertape (Downhill fun jam with the option to do some timed practice).  A day before the Frome cobble wobble makes this a bumper riding weekend with weather looking mighty fine too.

    Track BBMS (Badger Badger Mushroom Snake), a few track stats; length – 450 metres, vertical drop – 65 metres, avg. time 50 – 60 seconds.

    Push up – less than 10 minutes

    Freelap timing system & Shimano race tape!

    Spot prizes courtesy of Max bikes PR.

    Come along and check it out, its gonna be bonza!

  • Dig Day Done

    Saturday’s Dig Day was quality.
    Loads of people turned up to help and as a result we got everything done with plenty of time left to ride.
    We built a new top section for puppets, repaired and extended the top berms on 143, repaired ‘weeeboing’ and raked every inch of every trail leaving them looking amazing and helping those lovely roots come through.
    Next dig day we’ll be building an extended and stepped rock garden at the top of spoons ready for the TickerTape triple crown in october – so please come along and help out as it’ll be a mammoth task but be awesome once done.
    Cheers!



  • Dig Day This Saturday!

    Black Canon Collective Dig Day

    It’s dig day this saturday and there’s plenty to do…

    Come along and lend a hand, meet some more members and eat some doughnuts.

    10:00 – 16:00 (ish) @ the Allotment

  • Blindside review

    Charles Mountford has been riding a Transition Blindside over the past few months thanks to Keith from Max Bikes PR. Here’s his review after plenty of fun down the allotment (both), and some epic riding at the Megavalanche and Avalanche Enduro… (click on the image to go to the full review).

    Transition Blindside Review

  • Raise some money – win some cool stuff!

    We really need to raise some money to buy some more freelap watches for use at TickerTape races…

    So, we’re asking our TickerTape loving members to get creative and think up ways to (legitimately) raise some doh.

    What about…

    A sponsored ride.
    A week of doing chores around the house.
    1000 press ups in an hour.
    Bunny-hop your gran.
    Going a whole week without saying “rad”, “dude”, “yeahhh boi!”, hi-fiving or greeting people by saying…”sup”.
    Or, just rattling a big bucket at a supermarket checkout whilst dressed as a brownie.

    Whatever you can think of and successfully carry out without stealing, hurting or defrauding other people is cool.

    So now for the best bit…

    All proceeds will go towards buying freelap watches (which is obviously very cool), the top three fund raisers will win some cool prizes AND whoever raises over £100 will have their name put into a hat to win this brand new beautiful commemorative signed copy of STEVE PEAT WORLD CHAMPION- SEVENTEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING – something that money simply can’t buy (he only signed 100 copies, we ordered this one within minutes of it being available and got #15, the rest have all since gone) !

    So go on, download the sponsorship sheet (you can use as many as you need) and get fundraising!

    The closing date is Friday October the 1st.


    All money collected for this fundraiser must be given to the BCC or returned to the donors.

    Money can be donated personally and / or raised by sponsorship.

    The BCC will spend all of the money raised from this fundraiser on Freelap watches and timing equipment for use at TickerTapes.

  • And the winner is…

    What Mountain Bike BCC Winner

    BCC member Charles Major won an awesome Trek Fuel EX8 recently (jammy sod!) but managed to get the club a cheeky mention in the magazine and get snapped wearing his BCC T-shirt…good work Charles!