If you’re in the area then why not get yourself over to the SingletrAction dig day happening at Stainburn (Nr. Otley, West Yorkshire) this Sunday (07/03/10). The descent line is being extended, there’ll be a fair bit of rock lumping, but you reap what you sow.
Usual drill – meet in the main car park at 10am, don’t forget to bring food, water,  appropriate clothing, gloves, etc. as it may be a little chilly!  There will be tools but if you have a spade or wheelbarrow it will come in handy.
Confirm your attendance at the dig though the nifty Facebook group.
You can read more about Singletraction and the work they do on their website.
Hey Mick, look forward to seeing you when you’re up to it.
We always recommend folks come back after their first visit. At first it’s usually a slap in the face and very off putting, but many times, second visit goes much better and people start to understand how it works. I’m still riding there after umpteen years and can’t do bits, but then I never claim to be any shakes as a rider.
Whatever, if it isn’t for “you” that’s cool. Vive la difference. However, like I said, just because “you” don’t like it doesn’t make it crap.
“It is promoted as a downhill course!”
The descent line at Stainburn never was and never has been promoted as a ‘downhill course’. The FE would have never allowed it to be built if that was it’s purpose hence it’s name – the descent line. It might be a route that goes ‘down’ a ‘hill’ but that is as ‘downhill’ as it gets. Just because local DH ers chose to use it as practice does not make it a ‘downhill’.
Crackhead, please show me somewhere where SingletrAction as an organisation have ever promoted it as a downhill course and i’ll eat my saddle.
Try these links
http://singletraction.frankencrank.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2803
http://www.singletraction.co.uk/page.php?page=About_Us
Would that be refering to this
http://www.moredirt.co.uk/trail//Descent-Line-Trail—Stainburn/216/
or some other FE land?
have a nice day this sunday
Crackhead
As stated above, the DL at Stainburn has never been promoted by SingletrAction as a Downhill track. it is and always has been an XC route down a hill. Your first link is to a discusion between us about how we can best make use of what was built within the FC remit, some of us are into Downhill and that forum discusion reflects that, but the route had to be built within what the FC dictated. I’m not sure of the point of that 2nd link, yes we are a mixed bunch. The Third link to Moredirt, SingletrAction didn’t contribute to that trail description, read all their ‘trail reviews’ page to get a more informed review.
If you travelled a long way believing it was a downhill track or DH location, then that misinformation was not the doing of SingletrAction. Stainburn is intended as a difficult XC destination.
I don’t particularly get the relevance of what you’ve linked to either. Unless it’s this:
“and designed and built what will be one of the most technically demanding permanent downhill courses in the north”
which was written many, many moons ago about the DH in Dalby. And there’s a whole other saga about …..
And as for Moredirt (or MBUK) written by journalists with nearly 0 input from us.
He, he. Some of us ride CX bikes but we haven’t built a CX course in just the same way that some of us ride DH bikes but we haven’t built a DH course.