MY NEW BIKE TRAIL

[Rat Rod]

My house is about two blocks away from one of the largest lakes in the North Texas area.

The ironic part is that I don't own a boat and I rarely see the lake because it's at the back of the neighborhood.

This past year the city started work on a 6 mile bike trail that starts at a small park at the back of my neighborhood and follows the perimeter of the lake to the north end of town.

They have it just about finished so this evening I took the Dyno Moto out for a quick ride to see how the construction was going.


Here's the park where the trail begins...

The beginning of the trail...

Good shot of the trail...about 7 feet wide...looking back at the park...

Where the trail now ends...

Interesting way they are building the trail...

Lake shot...

Unfinished trail...fun for mountain bikes...

I need shocks!

 

[vanilla_gorilla]

we built a trail like that at work. interesting with the honeycomb material to hold in the dirt. what we did was use a excavator to drag a i-beam to level the crushed stone i dumped. i got to play big boy tonka toys for a week

 

[aka_locojoe]

Lucky you.
So is the surface "crushed stone"?

 

[Rat Rod]

It is sort of a red crushed stone.

Makes for a fairly hard riding surface.

 

[vanilla_gorilla]

heres a view from my truck

heres where we built it

this was the king of Morocco's place in peapack NJ. its been county-owned for years and we just opened the grounds to the public.
its pretty cool except apparently theres coyotes runnin about

 

[Rat Rod]

Looks awesome...beautiful place to ride.

 

[ej599]

Nice looking trail. There is one that crosses my road, but its an old railroad line-nothing but straight! Yours looks alot more interesting.