Wooden Pump Tracks . . . .

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flag cmc4130
Posted: Jun 14, 2011 at 14:43 Quote
Interested to know what wooden pump tracks are out there. Besides Ray's, which is clearly awesome.

I found this one at Burnaby Mountain Bike Skills Park . . . .

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flag JMoney53
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 at 18:35 Quote
I've read somewhere that the wooden pump track at Burnaby sucks. I read it was just off a little. I'd stick with dirt, because while it requires a little more mantinence, to get a pump track dialed you have to tweak it and work it, something you can't really do once you've built a wooden one, I'd just stick with dirt personally.
flag cmc4130
Posted: Jun 20, 2011 at 14:48 Quote
JMoney53 wrote:
I've read somewhere that the wooden pump track at Burnaby sucks. I read it was just off a little. I'd stick with dirt, because while it requires a little more mantinence, to get a pump track dialed you have to tweak it and work it, something you can't really do once you've built a wooden one, I'd just stick with dirt personally.

i've already built dirt pump tracks and jumps. the reason why we are looking at wood is because this will be in a remote area that will get almost zero ongoing maintenance. also, the soil out there is terrible.

as for wood not being able to be tweaked, very true. that's why i will be building it correctly and re-building anything that doesn't work. i've done it with wooden skate and bmx ramps, so why not 'pump tracks' and skills features....
flag James-Carey
Posted: Jun 21, 2011 at 0:10 Quote
because they almost never work first time, it is luck if they do work first time, i would recommend making a dialed pump track, then concreting it, first lay chicken wire that is dug into the sides of the rollers then pour the concrete
flag cmc4130
Posted: Jun 21, 2011 at 9:14 Quote
Ray's MTB park:

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Posted: Jun 21, 2011 at 9:25 Quote
there is a place called joyride 150 in markham ontario canada it has some easy beginner stuff
flag cmc4130
Posted: Jun 21, 2011 at 15:32 Quote
davidmcadam wrote:
there is a place called joyride 150 in markham ontario canada it has some easy beginner stuff

right on...


http://www.singletracks.com/blog/mtb-events/introducing-joyride-150-indoor-bike-park-opening-dec-14-2009/

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flag cmc4130
Posted: Jun 22, 2011 at 12:35 Quote
These are probably too steep&deep for a bike pump track... but very interesting:

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flag James-Carey
Posted: Jun 22, 2011 at 13:56 Quote
not a pump track, but awesome fun to ride by the looks of it
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Posted: Jun 26, 2011 at 9:35 Quote
I'm currently building a pump track in my garden although not wooden it's cement I had to compromise with the mrs as she wanted flower beds so I'm digging the track plus a raised bed in the spaces I'm leaving then cementing over my track
flag James-Carey
Posted: Jun 26, 2011 at 11:09 Quote
someone here has done that, hang on and i will find it for ya
flag Rivait1997
Posted: Jun 27, 2011 at 17:15 Quote
RiderOli4 wrote:
I don't know any wooden ones but I came across this not-intended pump track in front of a Jaguar Dealer


we have the same thing at a jag dealer in michigan
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