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Woodyard trails Grinnel Hill BMX Trip to the States Andrew Thomson, Jack Smith, Damo Wilkinson and James Bentley, all locals from the Woodyard trails in Melbourn, set off on their BMX trip to San Diego, California on the 30th January for two weeks all with the intention of getting away from the English weather and the ambition to experience new BMX trails, skate parks and culture.
The idea of our trip to California all started out when we met two guys who had come over from the states to come and ride the Melbourn trails (Grinnel Hill BMX), Blaine and Braden. Who we actually came into contact with over social media app (Instagram) For those of you who don’t know it’s an application whereby you post photos up onto your account for others to see, like, comment and so on. Crazily enough we started seeing photos that they were posting up of their spots in California and to which they were seeing the photos we were posting up of our trails in Melbourn
also. The Americans were really impressed with the photos we were putting up of our trails and we would occasionally comment on each others photos indicating our great desire to travel to each others spots, meet up and show them around. This became reality last summer when they ended up planning a trip to come and stay over here for a week filled of riding at our trails in Melbourn and a few other spots around the London area. Luckily they had picked one of the best weeks to come over weather-wise where we managed a near enough rain free week which enabled us to ride as much as possible. We had such a great week showing them about and within that week secured ourselves two really
Grinnel Hill BMX site, Melbourn
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