Post Your Pumptrack! + Discussion

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Post Your Pumptrack! + Discussion
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flag ragdoll
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 at 10:02 Quote
Element30kid wrote:
wow with all that experience the new one will be so sick and how do you get permisssion to build one at a school
the school job was an initiative funded by the council. they are a low decile school (low socioeconomic area) with high obesity stats. they got given a container of like 20 or 30 bikes a pump track a 400m xc loop plus the skills area. its being added to their hysical education programme. most of these kids have never ridden bikes before, dont own one or would never have an oppurtunity to ride these sorts of features. all goes well and the council are happy, we will get a few more to do. good stuff.
flag ragdoll
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 at 10:10 Quote
SebAshwell wrote:
I am thinking about building a pumptrack the location I have is in some woods it wont get very dry and it is on a slight hill is it still a good idea to build a pumptrack on a hill or should I scout out another location.

well that depends how you cut your drainage. in the woods is good, treecover, slight hill is good bracuse water wants to flow down. got any pics?
flag ragdoll
Posted: Feb 19, 2012 at 0:53 Quote
heres a video of a trail we built, which we call a flow trail. essentially its a downhill pumptrack. alot of fun indeed.
flag ragdoll
Posted: Feb 19, 2012 at 11:30 Quote
just searching through some pics and heres another angle of the OCC (onehunga country club) pump track.
photo
flag Barnseyhcxc
Posted: Feb 19, 2012 at 11:33 Quote
ragdoll wrote:
just searching through some pics and heres another angle of the OCC (onehunga country club) pump track.
photo

Wow, thats bloody awesome
flag ragdoll
Posted: Feb 20, 2012 at 11:14 Quote
Barnseyhcxc wrote:
ragdoll wrote:
just searching through some pics and heres another angle of the OCC (onehunga country club) pump track.
photo

Wow, thats bloody awesome

cheers mate. unfortunatley the guy who owns that place has jumped into father hood, so the track is abit dero at the moment, but never mind. let him do his thing and we will be able to get back in there oneday.
flag lurchh
Posted: Feb 20, 2012 at 13:12 Quote
Does anyone here know if a water-filled lawn roller would work for packing the pumptrack?
flag Barnseyhcxc
Posted: Feb 20, 2012 at 13:27 Quote
Yeah, it'd do the trick nicely Smile
flag cmc4130
Posted: Feb 21, 2012 at 6:26 Quote
in austin texas, our approach to "pump tracks" is much more bmx-trails and bmx race inspired (although a lot of us ride 26" now, we used to ride 20").

at the same time, i also took a lot of inspiration from years of skateboarding cement and wood parks. sometimes bmx-race-track inspired pump tracks get too "tech"--the rollers are more like speed "bumps" or peaks, rather than full-bike/full-body pump style. on the flip side, cement skatepark rollers are more like "waves." coming from the old surf-style concrete wave mentality.

Walnut Creek Pump Track (2009 vid by Hippie Josh):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ3E8u-CZ2w

WCPT random edit 2010
https://vimeo.com/10436091

K-Dog's birthday jam:
https://www.vimeo.com/16608877

photo

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check out this ridemonkey thread:
pump tracks
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/f61/pump-tracks-217062/
flag James-Carey
Posted: Feb 21, 2012 at 7:15 Quote
Personally i think the pump track idea should die, and flow lines should dominate, but Austine is just f*cking mental
flag bikeaddict123
Posted: Feb 21, 2012 at 11:38 Quote
James-Carey wrote:
Personally i think the pump track idea should die, and flow lines should dominate, but Austine is just f*cking mental

please tell me that's your arse in that profile pic
flag James-Carey
Posted: Feb 21, 2012 at 12:03 Quote
f*cks sake, it looks too much like a dude, no its a chick, my ass is hairy lol
flag ragdoll
Posted: Feb 22, 2012 at 1:31 Quote
James-Carey wrote:
Personally i think the pump track idea should die, and flow lines should dominate, but Austine is just f*cking mental
some spots take time to evolve. sometimes you dont always have the space to build big flow lines. which personally i think are a set of trails anyways. at the end of the day thety are two different things. or are you talking about like a pumptrack on steroids?!
flag James-Carey
Posted: Feb 22, 2012 at 7:18 Quote
Pump track on steroids basically, so instead of all rollers going in a loop, a nice long loop of jumps rollers, and weird ass features that you flow round in a loop, with shit going all over the place, but everything kept small

 


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