Visit To Spinney Dirt Jumps.

A good place to ride back in the day was Spinney dirt jumps, this place was real good to ride with a good selection of dirt jumps, there was some real good times had down there. The Spinney jumps was in Kingswinford, just down the road from Dudley and the locals were all good guys and very good on the jumps. Bearwood's way of riding was to have a laugh first then have loads more fun riding, this and just a bunch of crazy dude's was a mixture and a half.
One memory about being at the spinney was there was loads of jumps dotted about all over the place, and the area it covered was quite big. The actual place was deep from the road level, and had plenty of trees which was a natural canopy on a rainy day. There was a little set of about 4 or 5 doubles going downhill, which were real good to ride, one day i was riding these and when you got to the bottom there was right turn, and being downhill and no brakes there was some speed being picked up, i made the right turn with the tyres just about gripping, after the right turn it carried on downhill and getting faster, i looked ahead just to see a big mound of dirt which was a take off to a dirt jump, i thought while speeding towards it nah, i dont want to do the jump, never seeing it before, i put my foot down to try and stop but it being a sandy/gravel surface, it's not happening i put my foot back on the pedal said a quick prayer and just pedalled towards the jump, not knowing where the landing was or even if there was one.
I just remember going up the take off at speed thinking "This Is It" and just flying threw the air alot higher than i would of choose to, looking down i could see all the landing going by below,i ended up clearing all landing and made it down on the back wheel at an angle i thought i was going to crash, by grace of god i made it ,i was quite shocked by it all and kind of shaken, i walked up to the rest of the boy's who were at the top riding, told them to try these little doubles out, as they were good, now a few of the crew had no brakes/ and some did, so i said follow me and off we go in a line down the hill, jumping the doubles and as we got to the bottom i just shouted turn right, (now i've not told them about the big mound at the bottom), as soon as we turn right all i can hear is shouts of "get out the way" "wtf" and all sorts, i was nearly falling off by laughing so much going threw the air, they all made it over safely but a little shaken and we had a good laugh about it, a good memoriable moment. Looking back, the gap between take off and landing was quite big.


Much Peace And Blessings To Each And All.


BLF.