Welcome to Shift Salisbury’s mountain biking website. This website has been created by a few of Salisbury’s mountain biking enthusiasts from in and around the Salisbury area to primarily represent the local mountain biking scene whatever the discipline it happens to be, whether it’s dirt jumping, cross country, downhill, four-cross, freeride, trials and so on. We hope that this site as part of our mission will help promote mountain biking by thus encouraging new mountain bikers, whoever you are. The group of bikers from the local area in and around the Salisbury are newly amalgamated and are a group who call themselves Shift Salisbury. This group of mountain bikers are always looking for development in the local mountain biking scene in any way we can and more riders to meet no matter where you are from and to go riding with. After all this is part of what mountain biking is, meeting, riding and communicating with people who have the same thing in common. Shift Salisbury is always enthusiastic about becoming bigger and stronger so if you ever become interested in us, do not hesitate to let us know via our ‘Contact Us’ page by E-mail. We will always contact you back as soon as possible without any hesitation!! This website will be used as a way to communicate to mountain bikers and anyone of interest via E-mail, guest book and especially by the ‘Latest Shift News’ found on the home page to meet, go riding, discuss any development or any other mountain biking related topic. We also have a MySpace website dedicated to Shift Salisbury, so if you are interested you can check that out at:www.myspace.com/shiftsalisbury The MySpace website also allows more communication between mountain bikers, especially if you are or will be a MySpace member, which is a free of charge and a vast growing Internet community. To learn more about the Shift Salisbury group take a look at our ‘About Us’ page. Also, we always like to hear from people, so, be welcome to drop by our guest book at the bottom of this home page to say hello or leave any comments. This website is continually being updated, so keep in tune for these updates.
Dec 29, 2007 NEW STUFF... Hey guys, Just a bit of an update here. Shift Salisbury is now officially affiliated to the British Cycling Federation as a recognised bike club. Club promoting and coach training will take place in the new year as planned. Club activities will also be starting with things such as dual slalom racing and cross country riding, to name a few. Come back soon to here more about these. As for the proposed bike track to be built in Salisbury, the team supporting the whole project is becoming stronger and stronger with the club being involved, local authorities, local members of the community and many other bike related persons. This is great and will help show the demand for the track and we'll be working as a team to get this track up and running. The Shift Salisbury club committee will be having a meeting this January with members of the local authority and British Cycling to discuss more about what the club's roles and responsibilities are in regards to the track project. There will be more news on this soon. Anyways I hope you're all had a great Xmas and that you have a happy and prosperous new year. Happy trails! Allan
May 15, 2007
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HOW TO DO IT YOURSELF – HEAD CAM MOUNT
Hey all, I was a little bored last night and then thought about how vulnerable my head cam for my 661 full face helmet could be to impact damage, especially in the thin fabric and nylon mount that comes as standard for most of these types of cameras. Although, most descent head cams are tough pieces of kit with a metal protective casing, which is also water resistant, they still need to be well looked after, especially if used regularly. Anyway, I thought I’d share how I made a more protective head cam mount last night for you to try if you like, saving you some dosh. This is a cheap but cheerful cam mount made from random stuff that can be commonly found around the home. I used for this mount, a piece of leather from 1 broken belt, 2 strips of sticky back Velcro (mine was marine grade), 3 zip ties and 1 old handle bar bike grip. This is how it’s done:
The handle bar grip is the part that provides the most protection, so make sure it is fairly thick. You need to make sure that the inner diameter of the old handle bar grip is near the same as the outer diameter of the head cam. It’s ok if the inner diameter of the handle bar grip is just a little too small because the cam will be more secure. Once you are happy with the diameter of the handle bar grip, cut it to the same length as that of the head cam, using a sharp carpet knife or similar. Then insert the head cam into the grip without either end of the cam sticking out from the handle bar grip. Then fasten one zip tie on the handle bar grip near the lens end of the camera, just for further security of the head cam because on a wet day without that one zip tie, the cam could slip out.
Next cut a length off an old leather belt or similar and then cut this material to a size that is a bit longer than the head cam and wider than the handle bar grip. Leather is best recommended for its strength and water resistance. Next, make two holes on the leather cutting and another two matching holes on the other side, all within the length of the head cam. On the length of the piece of material, the holes should be only apart at no more than 2cm.
The holes that have now been made are for a couple of zip ties. Now loop through a zip tie for each pair of holes. Making sure that the head cam is in the right position and not up-side-down or sideway, fasten the two zip ties around the width of the handle bar grip containing the head cam and fasten the zip ties up fairly tightly until there is a secure grip.
Now you need to measure and cut with scissors one sticky back Velcro strip to match the length and width of your leather cutting or similar material. Normal Velcro can become less sticky quite quickly over time after regular use, so for extra long lasting Velcro grip and also water resistance, it helps to use marine grade Velcro. This length of Velcro will be the piece that is secured on to your helmet for attachment of the head cam. Next you need to cut the other piece of Velcro to the same length but with a gap cut out in this length, to avoid covering the zip ties that secure the cam on to the mount on the underside of this mount. This is because the zip ties will need replacing from time to time when the cam is detached for maintenance. You should now have two pieces of Velcro for this one piece that was just cut. Now the Velcro needs to be secured on to the leather material. Although the Velcro is sticky backed, it is a good idea to put a touch of super glue on to the sticky side of the Velcro for the extra bondage to the leather.
Now the head cam mount is complete and ready for use. Below is two pics of one I made earlier, in true Blue Peter style lol...
NOTE: You make the head cam mount at your own risk to the camera. Providing you make it properly and with care, everything should be fine.
Happy trails!
Here's the great Rip.Tv feature, "How to Win" with Steve Peat and Nathan Rennie. Check it out! It's a half hour documentary
of the two Santa Cruz Syndicate team members progressing their way through the 2006 UCI World Cup. This video is shown in
two parts on here. Enjoy!
May 13, 2007
HARNHAM JUMPS REPAIRED
Hey guys, For any of the Salisbury locals out there, I have some good news. The Jumps up in Harnham woods have now been repaired after being vandalised. It was tipping down in rain today, so when the rain stopped, the opportunity was taken to repair these jumps while the soil was soft. All the kickers that have been knocked down are now rebuilt and will need to set solid for a while as the weather becomes dryer.
Happy trails!
Allan
Apr 07, 2007
Brief update - Salisbury Mountain Bike Trail Project
Just to keep you up to date in regards to the new mountain bike trail being built in Salisbury, the land has been chosen and it's big enough for plotting a new mountain bike track on. Originally, the trail was going to be freeride in style but it was disgused that the land would have to be much bigger and that British Cycling does not give much backing to freeride mountain biking. Various pieces of land was offered but non of them were big enough. Now, and for certain, the new track will be a mountain bike four cross track because it will fit nicely on to a smaller area of land. Four cross is the little brother to downhill mountain biking, which is bags of fun and the track will be wide enough for for riders on at the same time, will consist of a raised starting bank for riders and a number of berms and jump sections. This will be built not juist for locals to ride on but also for racing and much more and there is shed loads of backing offered by British Cycling. All I can say is that this year, there will be a lot of hard work carried out on this project within many areas. I will keep you up-to-date on it.
Happy trails!
Allan
Apr 07, 2007
Hi all, It's Spring time and the weather is hot, so I hope you are all out having a good time riding and having BBQs. It has been over a year since this website has been updated in any way due to technical problems with the site builder. However, now this site is back in full swing with lots of new updates in the Ride Gallery and the whole site in general. So, go check them out! Although the Ride Gallery is updated, it's still under a little construction and there will be more pictures uploaded on to there soon. In regards to the Shift Salisbury MySpace website, that will be updated shortly. I'll keep you all up-to-date about the websites.
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