Red Bull Pump Track World Championship, Bali - Video

Apr 3, 2018 at 5:07
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Red Bull Pump Track World Championship - Bali Qualifier

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The first qualifier of the 2018 Red Bull Pump Track World Championship took place on the Indonesian island of Bali. An international field of riders took to the Velosolutions pump track at the Amplitude Skate and Bike Park to try and secure their spot at the World Final.

The first qualifier of the 2018 Red Bull Pump Track World Championship took place on the Indonesian island of Bali. An international field of riders took to the Velosolutions Pump Track at the Amplitude Skate and Bike Park to try and secure their spot at the World Final.

Battling it out in the Bali heat, the best riders from the island were joined by competitors from Japan, Australia and Germany to battle it out for the first tickets to the World Championship final later in the year. The track layout for the Bali qualifier made for a unique head-to-head race format with riders racing an inner and outer loop.

Ahead of the knock out heats, riders completed timed seeding runs. Australia’s Danielle Beecroft posted a time of 18.576 seconds in the women’s category with Indonesia’s Pahraz Salman Alparisi putting in the fastest time for the men with a lightning 15.577 second lap time.

The first qualifier of the 2018 Red Bull Pump Track World Championship took place on the Indonesian island of Bali. An international field of riders took to the Velosolutions Pump Track at the Amplitude Skate and Bike Park to try and secure their spot at the World Final.

As the knock out heats pushed through it was clear Japan’s Daiki Shimogaki’s pace and style on a mountain bike would rival the Indonesian BMX Champ Pahraz Salman Alparisi for the win.

As the finals approached it was no longer just about the riders' skill on the track but also their fitness and stamina. The intense heat, track length and neck-to-neck racing would put the riders through their paces. The fight for the win and their expenses paid ticket to the final would come down to the 2 local riders Ardian Putra Pratama and Pahraz Salman Alparisi in the men, whilst Danielle Beecroft would take on Elga Kharisma in the women’s category.

The first qualifier of the 2018 Red Bull Pump Track World Championship took place on the Indonesian island of Bali. An international field of riders took to the Velosolutions Pump Track at the Amplitude Skate and Bike Park to try and secure their spot at the World Final.

It was an even playing field across BMX and MTB, with neither having a clear advantage on the Velosolutions track. Danielle Beecroft was unbeatable on the day and took the win for the women. After putting down the fastest timed run earlier in the day, Pahraz Salman Alparisi went on to take the win in the men’s field with both riders claiming their spot at the final and an expenses paid trip.

The first qualifier of the 2018 Red Bull Pump Track World Championship took place on the Indonesian island of Bali. An international field of riders took to the Velosolutions Pump Track at the Amplitude Skate and Bike Park to try and secure their spot at the World Final.

Final results Mens:
1st place - Pahraz Salman Alparisi - Indonesia
2nd Place - Elga Kharisma - Indonesia
3rd Place - Komang Calvin - Indonesia
4th Place - Daiki Shimogaki - Japan
Final Results Women:
1st Place – Danielle Beecroft – Australia
2nd Place - Elga Kharisma – Indonesia

The first qualifier of the 2018 Red Bull Pump Track World Championship took place on the Indonesian island of Bali. An international field of riders took to the Velosolutions Pump Track at the Amplitude Skate and Bike Park to try and secure their spot at the World Final.

As the celebrations began in Bali the preparations were already underway for the next qualifiers taking place on the 7th of April in both Wellington, NZ and Manila, The Philippines. With an incredible line up of athletes ready to battle it out, the Red Bull Pump Track World Championship is heating up.

For the latest news, results and your chance to register to race visit Red Bull.

The first qualifier of the 2018 Red Bull Pump Track World Championship took place on the Indonesian island of Bali. An international field of riders took to the Velosolutions Pump Track at the Amplitude Skate and Bike Park to try and secure their spot at the World Final.


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48 Comments
  • 28 0
 So Sick!! This is exactly what the bike world needs. Something everyone can have a go at and throw down in a super chill and fun environment, exactly the same reason the Whip-off worlds are so popular (>.)
  • 10 2
 You can show up on a shitty bike and only your riding can speak for what you’re worth. It is as brutal as it is deliberating.
  • 4 1
 "she deliberated on his words"
  • 1 0
 @WAKIdesigns: she liberated on his words.
  • 18 1
 has anybody noticed how much bike riding make people smile!?
  • 3 1
 Point of Interest: wheel-size, wheel-base, and speed on pumps... I think it comes down to interference/amplification in terms of the waveform of the track you're riding. BMX will be best on tracks with short distances between roller peaks and rapid transitions (small radii), and larger wheels/longer wheelbases will excel more on tracks that have longer distances between rolls and larger radii transitions. It's really just a question of 'best tool for the job', with the job being the shape and demeanor of the track you're riding.
  • 7 3
 So you can use a bmx or a hardtail? Aren't those on the hardtail disadvantaged?
  • 4 6
 29ers are the fastest though, so the bigger wheels on the hardtails must be faster right?
  • 11 2
 No, a hardtail will be faster. Quickest tool for the job will be a really rigid BMX with a long wheelbase.
  • 2 0
 @DarrellW: DON’T give them ideas! Devil makes use of minds entangled in first world problems
  • 2 0
 @DarrellW: Would the long wheelbase help any? I'm still working on it (and I've ridden the BMX pretty much exclusively on the track near home) but my impression is that the rotation of the bike can be used to gain speed. And with all other things being equal (wheelsize, speed and curvature of the track) the shorter bike is going to rotate more/faster.
  • 1 0
 On my track I'm consistently faster on a 26" dirt jumper than on the 20" BMX.
  • 7 2
 I think the faster bike would be a 29er BMX
  • 1 0
 @BiNARYBiKE: Do you ride a tarmac track or dirt? My track is still fresh and dirt so I can get that bigger wheels would roll smoother. I can hear the gravely top layer chirp when I push into it. But I suppose on a tarmac track the advantage of bigger wheels would be lost, wouldn't they?
  • 3 0
 I think that BH-BAWS "Butthurt by a wheelsize" is the slowest and least playful kind of a rider that sucks at aggressive riding in technical terrain.
  • 1 0
 you can ride in anything you want, time will tell us what is faster. Probably bmx, but we will see
  • 1 0
 @vinay: You get more pump on manuals with long chainstays. It's harder to get it up into a manual, but the difference in manual pump between my 24" BMX cruiser with a long wheelbase and my 24" DJ bike is enormous.
  • 1 0
 @BiNARYBiKE: That's probably due to you spending more time on the 26" wheels than the 24". It's also going to depend on the track - on a rough surface, the bigger wheels will roll better, but on smooth tarmac, that's not really a consideration.
  • 3 0
 @DarrellW: more over it takes more skill to pump short chainstays. It's easier to lift the front wheel and manual, but it's much harder to get the balance point right and keep it there. When I got on my DJ with 385 stays I had to relearn to manual. Now I am getting on my Enduro bike with 435, and yeah it's harder to pull it, but once I am there it's a fricking cruise. It was the same on the pumptrack. coming from 415 hardtail MTB into the DJ i fell on my arse a number of times. One has to be much more mindful of how much he/she pulls. Sure we get used to anything, but the fact remains, short stays require more skill to handle. Same with the wheel size. a 26" DJ feels on pumptrack like a long travel 29er feels on trails. You can throw it around more nonchalantly. When I tried a BMX on a pumptrack it was scary as hell, the sense of speed and agility is overwhelming.
  • 1 0
 @WAKIdesigns: Haven't really ridden an mtb on the track so I don't know for sure, but I suppose it isn't about the chainstay length in isolation, is it? I think my BMX has a CS of about 37cm where it is now (with horizontal dropouts). Not so much shorter than your DJ bike. Now mine is an early model from Stolen. Not sure if it is still the case with the current brand (as sold through CRC for instance) but at least back then it was the BMX brand from Anthony Revell. The Revell brand was actually a brand for DS/BSX/4X/DJ/whatever so maybe the BMX brand was also designed with dirt in mind (hence longer than a typical street/park BMX). I think Martin Ogden rode those bikes back in the days. Either way, I think the balance is different with a short chainstay and a short front vs a short chainstay and a long front end. Or doesn't this go for manuals?

I may get a new BMX at some point. Even though I do have a 4130 front triangle, with about 16kg my bike is much heavier than cheap HiTen steel bikes of less than 12kg. Not sure how much it matters, but a BMX lighter than my mountainbike does sound like fun Smile . And the drag of the ACS freewheel isn't unlike a dragging brake rotor. Modern BMX bikes work with cassette hubs which allow for much smaller rings. At least they can be lubed and serviced. Maybe this made modern chainstays shorter. Haven't looked into it yet.

I'm curious about how tarmac rolls different from dirt. There was a feature on this site about a new Velosolutions track in Roosendaal. It takes a 1hr drive to get there, but it appears well worth it.
  • 1 0
 @vinay: 370 vs 395 is more than 415 of my previous bike to 395 of my DJ and that’s hell of a lot. Like to hop on the back wheel I just lean back. It is completely effortless to lift the front. BMX? It’s hard not to lift it.

As to other aspects of geo, the shorter the cs the easier it is to lift, same with BB height, the higher the easier, shorter the reach and higher the cockpit the same.

No point to overanalyze it, BMXes are fkng easy to be pointed somewhere, they are hard to be pointed out exactly where you want them to go. And consequences of a miss are exponential. You can get hurt rather easily. Riding a DJ bike is already a humbling experience. I’d rather hit crabapple bits in Whistler on my Enduro bike than try to jump a 1.5m tall spine in concrete skatepark, or air out from a quarter on a BMX. If you tell me now to choose one of these challenges or you kill me, I take crabapple bits without a ti iest shadow of a doubt
  • 1 0
 @vinay: I'm on dirt but it's very firm. Can't compare it to tarmac.
  • 1 0
 @DarrellW: That may be. I'm also quite tall and feel like the 26" fits me much better. Not to bring up the age old debate, but all things being equal a smaller wheel accelerates faster and a bigger wheel has a higher top speed.
  • 2 4
 @WAKIdesigns: I cannot believe the absolute amount of bullshit in these comments. If you stop being a pussy and ride your bike you would probably have less of a concern for the geo of your bike and be able to air a quarter o a BMX...
  • 1 0
 @GMAN1: really? Ok, I’ll play you don’t know me card. Have a good day.
  • 1 0
 @vinay: tarmac feels really fast and safe. You have all the traction you need, so you can really throw it down.
  • 1 0
 @xiansantos: Yeah, sounds cool. Still struggling a bit with my grip in corners. Obviously when done properly, berms shouldn't need much grip but my aim isn't quite there yet Wink . I'm trying to hammer them a bit harder but I'm also washing out more. Just broke the EPS layer of my helmet today (hardshell skate helmet) so I may need to look out for one of those that has a crash replacement policy as this won't be the last time. Anyway, what we have now is a layer of Gralux. Didn't know either, but it turns out to be some kind of gravel that comes all the way from the Dolomites. They transport gravel all the way across Europe! It does drain incredibly well though. It's been quite wet the past few days yet the track was perfectly dry. To cover it in tarmac would be kind of a waste of this expensive material, though it would obviously expand the target group also. It'd better. The track as it is already cost 13k euro, tarmac (and the people who can process that on a bumpy surface like this) doesn't sound cheap either. I guess I'm happy as it is now. We can still finetune the track. Tarmac is pretty definite. And with it being less than three minutes from home without skaters etc to share it with simply means more riding for me ;D. I'd love to have a go on that Roosendaal track someday though.
  • 2 0
 Oh my god, obviously you can, fucking nooob
  • 1 0
 I find I'm fastest on a pump track when I get halfway through, swear loudly (offending parents everywhere), stop, throw my bike off the track, and walk back to the start. I think I'm still faster this way even when you count the time it takes to retrieve the bike.

I suck at pump track. Still fun. Epic workout. And even my sucky efforts there help a little out on the trail. FWIW, I bmx when I pump, no matter the track. Easiest bike to get to wherever the track is.
  • 1 0
 Small Mistakes on Website on Results:
Mens 2nd Place also written Elga Kharisma instead of Ardian Putra Pratama.. ???? hope it will be rectified ..????
  • 1 0
 Stoked for Dani Beecroft. It's tough trying to make it on the World Stage living in the Southern Hemisphere while the DH World Cup is Northern Based.
  • 1 0
 Dani has clicked into beast mode with her riding of late! Cant wait to cheer for another Aussie battling for WC podiums!!
  • 1 0
 Now if I could only talk the powers that be to have Velosolutions come build a track in New Denver, BC. We could have something.
  • 1 0
 Awesome! Indonesia and SE Asia has really taken off recently with mountain biking development. So stoked for all of it!
  • 1 0
 You should try Bali Bike Park too!
  • 1 0
 Guess I better hurry up on my 36" wheel BMX build for the American rounds
  • 1 0
 next stop wellington, NZ. bring it on!
  • 1 1
 Where are the pros if this is a world championship?
  • 1 0
 Each pro will race in they own countries qualifier to reach the finals . In some cases they may have to travel to enother country if there is no qualifier in their country . As did Danielle Beecroft traveling to Bali as there is no qualifier in Australia .
  • 4 5
 at least they didn't enforce the no chain nonsense
  • 10 1
 What makes it nonsense?
  • 2 3
 @nickgarrison: if you make a mistake in a head-to-head heat, no amount of pedaling is going to make a difference to the result. On top of that, when I'm jumping (especially bunnyhoping) I turn the cranks slightly back using the resistance of the freewheel to counterbalance that. I guess other people do that too. In addition to that, there is an underlying assumption that people are going to cheat (but with the number of cameras lining the course it's pretty easy to spot). Once you hit a certain speed pedalling on a properly designed pumptrack is not only impractical but also dangerous. Finally, I consider pumptrack cycling and without a drivetrain the bike can no longer be used for any conventional cycling.
  • 1 4
 Hardly a "World Championships" haha, but cool nonetheless.
  • 4 0
 This is just one of the qualifiers.
  • 2 0
 @BiNARYBiKE: Sheesh, sorry, forgive me, I misread that.
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