Tony Lund from Lancashire County Council has just called in with a big piece of paper. It’s a mock-up of the route map for Lee Quarry. It has all the new trails, skills area stuff and the already-famous new pump track. Tony has been kind enough to offer us the chance to name the trails and sections. Previously I’ve not had a problem coming up with trail names, much to the chagrin of some curmudgeonly more-elderly riders 😉
I like naming trails. I also think it’s very useful for talking about rides and trails with your riding group if trails/sections have a silly name rather than having to say “you know the one that goes…” all the time and getting all mixed up.
But suddenly being “commissioned” to “officially” name trails has left me a bit stumped. Although I’ve been to the Quarry a fair bit I still have trouble recalling the stuff that’s there – sufficiently enough to come up with a suitable name for it anyway.
I shall have to visit Lee Quarry again ASAP and take a pen and notepad with me this time…
there surely has to be mention of beards in there somewhere due to Ed O’s contribution to the trail building
I think the new black grade slab should be called The Great Rock or something 😉
maybe the guys who built the trails might have some good suggestions?
a week or two working on the same bit of trail gives you plenty of time to think up the odd good name, plus many down right rubbish ones! Or opportunity for random things to happen that provide inspiration for a good trail name.
andituk is a genius 🙂
trail names should be obscure and about an experience you’ve had on that trail
– we named a trail ‘bangers’ because it had some blokes on clapped out broken motorbikes on
– another we named ‘pony drop’ because there was a horse-shaped balloon at the bottom
you can’t make this stuff up, if you do it can sound a bit cliched like ‘return of the jedi’ or ‘takeshi’s castle’ (actually I quite like that one)
There should be a trail called ‘mint’ as that is one of the Welsh fella’s highest accolades.
How about using films as inspiration?
The Temple of Doom, Raiders of The Lost Ark, Curse of The Black Pearl, The Last Stand, The Phantom Menace, First Blood, The Dark Knight……
You get the idea.
Get em sponsored?
Andytrailfettler wrote, “a week or two working on the same bit of trail gives you plenty of time to think up the odd good name, plus many down right rubbish ones!”
Cliff Richard for example.