DarkFEST: The Build Has Begun - Video

The boys from Pure Darkness are back at The Garden Route Trail Park, but this time the plans are a bit different. Sam Reynolds has brought two master builders with him, Clemens Kaudela and Nico Vink to make the massive jumps even more crazy for DarkFEST!




Judging the size of things on video is often very misleading and both the newcomers were very surprised at the size of these jumps, but they dove right into the diggers and got to work. Adding new lines, tweaking a few things to make it more friendly for DH bikes and smoothing the eroded lips and landings was first on the cards.




The infamous giant step up now has two hipped landings on either side and the right line leads into a left hip on the last jump of the line, which looks absolutely insane. They are also busy with the new 80ft jump over the run into the step up, which will make for some spectacular shots with guys jumping over each other going Mach 1!



Having two diggers here now means that the speed of progress has doubled. You can literally watch the jumps grow. Nico is loving it too much and spending all day in them getting things dialed in.

A bit of rain came through on Wednesday, which slowed down the building but made the dirt tacky and perfect to work with, so it's guns blazing again and can't wait to see the rest of the ideas come to life.

Lots more plans to unfold, keep an eye out for the week 2 update before all the FEST boys come down to shred the goodness!

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