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Slack Trails Slack Trails is Ricky Pincott (SlackBoy). Trail Doctor - Trail design, building and maintenance

Ricky has been building trails for over 20 years, largely on a volunteer basis. He Spent 2 years at Wairoa Gorge as a Crew Leader building trails, and has worked for TGL Contracting for 2 years also. He has been involved in many trail builds all over the Wellington region, and has been a Makara Peak Supporters Committee Member on and off over the last 20 years. Ricky has been riding Mountain bikes

for over 30 years, racing XC, DH, CX, Track and Enduro. And is also a well respected (by some) bike mechanic, and was part owner of Mud Cycles for 10 years.

Been tickling away on Electric Ave . Reshaping, de-rutting, drain piping and re-swaling. Also please don't be one of th...
02/02/2025

Been tickling away on Electric Ave . Reshaping, de-rutting, drain piping and re-swaling. Also please don't be one of those dicks that goes past the super obvious signs, cos I don't care if you hurt yourself, but I don't want RSI from doing the paperwork when you do. Please wait, don't be selfish.

Freewheel stage 1 and 2 are essentially finished. There's still a few haircuts to make as the bush re-settles etc, but t...
26/07/2024

Freewheel stage 1 and 2 are essentially finished. There's still a few haircuts to make as the bush re-settles etc, but there is still a few very soft spots. Especially where some Dear have had a dance party near the top. The weather has been surprisingly challenging as we seem to average 2.5 days between rains. 2 weeks ago these corners were nearly perfect, then a Dear dance party and some rain..... and poggy pooey mess!! So please keep off and pray for some wind and sun. And if someone finds some tension....

Wondiferous day upon the hillside.
21/06/2024

Wondiferous day upon the hillside.

Some times the office is great, sometimes troubling
11/06/2024

Some times the office is great, sometimes troubling

In spite of some less than stellar weather this week, progress has been made on freewheel. Uphill hath been scraped and ...
26/05/2024

In spite of some less than stellar weather this week, progress has been made on freewheel. Uphill hath been scraped and reshaped to the summit. And into the descent we've charged.
But don't be one of those dicks that just has to check it out. Because of rhe weather the top inch is still super soft (don't worry underneath is solid as) and any du***ss riding or even walking it will churn it up and it WILL take longer to dry for me to compact after I've shaped your tire and footprints out. Wait to unwrap ya presents!

One must take advantage of a lack of breeze when working on zacs.Terrible work office on a Saturday
26/04/2024

One must take advantage of a lack of breeze when working on zacs.
Terrible work office on a Saturday

Squeeee, new toy!!!!Yanmar Vio12, 1.2t Lil machineMuch excite
03/04/2024

Squeeee, new toy!!!!
Yanmar Vio12, 1.2t Lil machine
Much excite

Been head down tail up, machining out laps of gravel on Clinical for the last month or so. Some 160+ laps later....all d...
15/03/2024

Been head down tail up, machining out laps of gravel on Clinical for the last month or so. Some 160+ laps later....all done, open and ready for the winters and rain to come.
Then a quick smash of a gravel pile in Makara, and then a few days in Houghton Bay on the Southern walkway on a 5ton machine. There was quite a steep and rutted out section that had claimed a few victims. Carved down and shaped some water controls. Fine layer of dust on top but bomber underneath. Then moving big rocks with the 5ton down at Waitaha cove carpark making things look pretty. as

For we shall deliver thee unto salvation......by jamming up powdered plants up my nose!!!!!
20/01/2024

For we shall deliver thee unto salvation......by jamming up powdered plants up my nose!!!!!

Sorting corners, building rock walls, digging up composted muddy sludge, repacking dirt, filling up holes and tweaking d...
18/01/2024

Sorting corners, building rock walls, digging up composted muddy sludge, repacking dirt, filling up holes and tweaking drainage.

More Hawt work. Rock hunting, rock breaking, rock stacking. A seep that appears on a high point was seeping across this ...
12/01/2024

More Hawt work. Rock hunting, rock breaking, rock stacking. A seep that appears on a high point was seeping across this intersection. Carved out the wall and placed a capture drain to direct the water . Stacked up a wall to lose the big slippery step up on to the top of John's tracks.
And then stuffed pollen up my nose by ripping it apart with a weedeater.

Sloppy and seepy on Grant's Track on Wrights Hill. Now with big capture drain, rock wall retaining and broken rock gr...
03/01/2024

Sloppy and seepy on Grant's Track on Wrights Hill. Now with big capture drain, rock wall retaining and broken rock gravel. Still needs moar rock broken gravelling.

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