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Here in the other LA (lower Alabama), I can count on 2 fingers the number of people I know with a trials bike. No good places to ride within a few hundred miles, and the terrain here is relatively flat and sandy. Competitions are also hundreds of miles away. Not many places to ride dirt bikes either - again a long drive. So I recently purchased 34 acres about 5 mies from my house purely to create a place for myself, my kids, grandkids and friends to ride. I've created a large perimeter loop that's about 2-1/2 miles long, has a mix of open trail, some tight single track in the woods and grown over areas, bridges across the creeks and a trials obstacle area, trying as much as possible to put more natural types of obstacles (rocks, trees, etc). I purchased a tractor with a mower, front end loader and grapple to help me build and maintain my areas.

Anyway, I thought I'd start a thread here to give us a place to share ideas for our back yard obstacles.

I'll start adding pics of a few of mine, and would love to get additional ideas.

This first on is a 5' rock pulled from the bottom of a nearby river. Rocks aren't very often found here. I dug a trench along the side of a hill and propped it up such that it rises about 4' high, then backfilled behind it and capped the top with some additional rocks. I can use this for splatters, decent practice, double blips, etc.

Also built a multi-sized splatter wall from railroad ties . . .

Man, I wish you were my neighbor!

I did build a simple teeter totter with an old 10' scaffolding plank laid on a log, it works pretty good.

Lonesome Dave wrote:Man, I wish you were my neighbor!

I did build a simple teeter totter with an old 10' scaffolding plank laid on a log, it works pretty good.

I have quite a few more obstacles that I'll post as soon as I figure out how to downsize the pictures to fit the forum limits.

markbxr400 wrote:

Lonesome Dave wrote:Man, I wish you were my neighbor!

I did build a simple teeter totter with an old 10' scaffolding plank laid on a log, it works pretty good.

I have quite a few more obstacles that I'll post as soon as I figure out how to downsize the pictures to fit the forum limits.

Good job guy's! Keep posting. It is so true that there is only few trial riders. It is the same in here (QC and Ontario). Lets hope more Trial's riders will develop with time. It does improve your Trail Riding a lots and it is so much fun to do Trial's practice. People are missing a big opportunity to improve their riding abilities faster.

Here are a few more of my obstacles.

The 1st is another rock I pulled from the river.

The second is just some tree trunks.

The last one is a trench I dug to pull dirt for my railroad tie splatter wall, and also give me a steeper climb. I plan to fill the bottom section with either rocks or logs.

I have a buddy who build boat docks and has a large trackhoe that he pulls rocks with. He has pulled some almost as big as a car. Hoping to get a few more from him!

Here's a pic where you can see most of the obstacles on the hill (I have this fire pit next to one of 3 creeks, and beside dozen or so 150 yr old live oaks). I also have a couple mile loop throughout the property that we ride our dirt bikes on, two bridges, a couple of rock piles, some tires on end and a few other things. I add something new every couple of weeks. BTW, picked up a new XTrainer a couple of months ago. Really liking it on the property. A lot more nimble than my Husky FE501.

Here are a few more pics. I told my 3 year old granddaughter that if she helped me build the trails, she could ride on them.

. . . and she did work!

That’s awesome. I need to start my girls on a bike but am still trying to find a good one to build confidence.