Mocean365 webisode featuring ideRide’s revamp on Kingdom Trails Kitchel
In May 2009 Kingdom Trails executive director Tim Tierny approached ideRide about rebuilding one of their signature trails, Kitchel. This trail was always a favorite way to finish a long loop on Darling Hill. Its decent into East Burke featured a series of berms that were fun but old and in disrepair. Kingdom trails saw this as an excellent spot to build a “machine trail”. A machine trail is built with an excavator and has a wider tread path often with technical trail features like berms, rollers and jumps creating the grade changes. This type of trail is rising in popularity at bike parks everywhere and so it was important for Kingdom Trails to add one to keep our system progressive and interesting. IdeRide is dedicated to promoting the progression of trails, skills and the great sport of mountain biking so we were excited to say the least. In mid June trail designer/builder Knight, armed with the ideRide excavator met the Kingdom Trails Crew on site. Over the course of three weeks (with a long lull in the middle due to a broken excavator track) a radical new trail was born. Knight designed the jumps to be low angle and user friendly and the berms with wide radii. The Kingdom Trails Crew and ideRider Erik Mentes shaped and dialed meticulously. The resulting trail is fun for the whole family, on a busy day the hoots and yells of joy can be heard in East Burke. Look for more trails like this in KT’s future.
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