BUILDING UK'S BEST MTB SLOPESTYLE LINE EP4 - THREE NEW FEATURES!

Hello everyone, today is going to be epic because it is episode 4 of building my dream slope style course here at Twisted Oaks Bike Park. You'll have seen from the last episodes that we made the drop, the double here, we got the wall ride into a quarter pipe, there's a big mound of dirt behind me, this is going to be built as a hip in amongst them trees there so we can get jibby in this section if you don't want to hit the scary wall ride there. Then today we're going to be focusing on this section, if you look behind there's two big mounds of dirt there, there's going to be a platform built so you can step up onto it, compose yourself, drop down and then it's going to get into the big line which you can see through these two trees here but today we're focusing on this so we're going to get some stakes in the ground and get building the platform, it's going to be well cool. Hard hats required, machinery's scary because it makes heavy stuff look so light doesn't it? We're now into the start of the fun bit of building that and John's got the controls to try and push this tree down. This is going to be the best, oh my god, oh yeah! Wow this is the best! So if this tree moved that means we've got a nice straighter run up into this lip which we're actually going to push back a metre that way, so we get one extra pedal in so you're going to have a nice amount of speed to get up onto this platform we're about to make. John's bringing all the telegraph poles in we're going to use as legs and Mark's going to get another huge bit of machinery. Hole one of four being made, one down, three more of them to go and then we can stuff the huge telegraph poles in there. Oh what's that down there? Makes a weird sound. Oh my god, must have been a landmine there or something. But we've done now all the four holes completed it's time to shove them poles in there. There we go we now have four huge poles in place. While we were digging holes and sorting out that feature John was up here creating what is going to be another sick feature up in this top section so this is the hip we mentioned it's actually got a bit bigger than we thought it was going to be which is always super good. The bigger the better so it'll be a cool flow of jump, boost, you can like berm this edge and into the quarter or if you've got skill and speed you might be able to go up onto the wall and down. This is going to be a super cool episode because we're actually going to ride this and that second feature so it's going to be like six different trickable zones. Another cool thing about this feature is it opens up this slope line to a few more levels of rider because if you can't hit that wall then you've got this cool straight hip here. Right we now got Mark up there putting the braces across. It is now the next build session for episode four I've come back a week later because I had to go on a Barcelona trip with Ergon that was sick but we're back here the guys have done loads of work already and as you can see for now this on off box has the platform ready and the dumper has the wood in there ready to go so we're going to get that made and then we'll show you all the craziness that's taken place in that direction. Right we're now putting on the big logs here onto this top section and then we'll be able to clamp them down in the next little while. We should put a few of them planks up on there there's a couple of like knots in the wood we've got to slice down so it's nice and level. With those three boards in we can then put a big sheet of ply over it and then we'll be able to test to see if that section works. So we've been on sort of separate build missions today because we've not got as much daylight these days because of the winter but as you can see John and Mark have laid the whole top up there now. We helped out a bit but obviously we had to get the run-up working so while they're still up there screwing stuff in we're going to throw on some of this lovely sand on here so we'll be able to ride this tomorrow when we come back. It's now the next morning, super cold and we've found that John has already stacked up loads more dirt so there's going to be another additional feature to test. It's looking welded so you can put a big dump of dirt on here and you can fill this out get a nice lip going and then it's almost ready. After a lot of work from the crew it's now time to get the bike out and give it a go. We've got this wooden section built, you then drop off here into this landing and then we're into the cheese wedge sort of pyramid hip there which is going to set you up for the huge jump at the bottom which isn't completed yet. So all of this has been laid if you look around it's lovely nice brown dirt everywhere like the orangey sort of sand so we're going to get the bike out give it a go see how it is. Geared up and ready to oh oh my god you know what time it is it's crack them audio clock! It's time. First feature on the test of this new hip it's gonna be a bit soft on the landing but we're gonna we need to ride it to get it packed in and then we can see how it angles up and stuff let's try that. Okay that worked. Let's just try straight away to go up on the platform then there's so much speed here we go then hip into the quarter oh easy no way easy let's put some boards on that landing then we can actually hit this thing with proper speed to see how it is let's go full length then see how that is oh wow when that lip's hard onto the on-off box you'll be able to jump straight up there oh it's so perfectly thick the drop is lacking speed sighting what we want to make is a little platform so you can have the perfect speed off the drop so i'm going to get a hopper ramp quick we're going to put that up there as a rolling just to test how big we need to make it here we go first test oh yes try the hip from here then oh yeah oh i want to get into that wall you need a bit of work on that hip because it's slow i want to go from the hip to the wall cardi's in town right mate all right how's it going you're going to come and try the course now you've got seven features to try it looks sick well good so good oh yeah that might be like a little boost button oh yeah fully up we're going to try to ride this hip a bit more and see if i can link hip into wall because that's the actual dream oh oh yeah i think it's possible oh it works when that's stiff it will probably be well cool card's just dropped a three on that drop which is sick we're going to do a little follow cam both get a three off of that so let's have like an impromptu like scrub off on this let's go oh clean new moves john's in shall we try bars on yeah you could go up to manual but it's a little bit you lose the speed you kind of need to pull so bars up let me try a bomb along and just like mani along the top and in could be well good louie was in the toilet and missed john's annual slam on this jump so here's another one from his instagram so we've been having so much fun on this line i forgot that we were even making the series but it's so cool episode four has been amazing new hip there freshly laid sand on all of the line we got this and this so in episode five we're going to be making the finale which is the huge trick jump everything will be packed in good and then ideally we're going to get that done have a bit of a jam with a bit of a squad do some huge tricks and enjoy it properly this is absolutely amazing thanks twisted oaks thanks to mark and john for sticking in and doing loads of work as well so we'll come back soon for episode five stay tuned see in the next one