The Gstaad-Scott team's sixth and final stage of the Tour de Pump is here! The team end their journey at the opening day of the new bikepark in the heart of Zurich, Switzerland.
The weather game seems to be a pattern of the Tour de Pump. It only took a few laps in the brand new bikepark Zürich until it started raining. A few minutes later, the rain turned into hail! Our drones had to land and hide under the Red Bull tents until it stopped pouring down. Thirty minutes later, we tried again, but it only took another ten minutes until it poured again. This game continued pretty much all day long.
Nevertheless, the Gstaad-Scott riders and the guests from Timo Pritzel's Scott Voltage team, Louis Reboul, Benoit Chauvet and Timo Pritzel himself, kept riding all day long, pulling out tricks and lines that we didn't imagine when we built the park.
One day later, the park was flooded with hundreds of kids that had just as much fun as the pros from Gstaad-Scott and Scott Voltage!
Big thanks to Brendan Fairclough, Noel Niederberger, Felix Klee, Floriane Pugin and Emilie Siegenthaler for giving it all on the
Velosolutions pumptracks all week long! It's time for a break before we leave for Scotland, for the BDS round in Innerleithen and the first World Cup 2013 in Fort William.
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Who knows, if we find enough towns who let us build Pumptracks, the Tour de Pump can go world wide in the future?
Words by Claudio Caluori
Photos by
Hansueli Spitznagel
"they" is probably going to have be "you" and your mates, but look at what you can build if you're motivated: www.facebook.com/pages/City-Dirt/215037298586390
btw tommo, we have the same bike, loving mine, no way I'd part with it for $1,400, that's a great price, even if the chain guide isn't on right ;-)
With some headway we are seeing more parks, but nothing at the scale where we see coverage or featured in Pinkbike. Just the DH/FR parks on the East Coast and some others out in the Rockies.
The pump track at the bottom of our garden is nearly finished, it's around 60 metres in length with 9 rollers and 3 berms. I won't lie, it's a heap of work and will have taken 6-7 months to create by hand, as there was a lot of prep work needed, but if you can get access to machinery it could be done more quickly.
www.bikeparkzuerich.ch
Built by pumptracks gmbh and Think+Build Velosolutions GmbH
section for the kiddies so we can get them hooked on our poison at an early age."
Disgusting how such a huge corporate entity, which has a crap product, controls such an awesome sport.
Yep.....I am.
I built a lot of trails and I have to destroy a lot of them too. We had big of troubles with forest guards and administration. It's not because that's like that with you that it had to be the same everywhere. a*shole.