Help Save The Pines Dirt Jumps

Pines Dirt jumps were started roughly 15 yeas ago and have gone through a number of changes over that time period, most recently becoming one of Alberta's more well known set of mountain bike dirt jumps. I have been riding and building here for four years, with a core group of three other guys (Mason Rice, Mike Cash and Rylan Salmon), while many other riders from throughout the province come ride when they have the chance. Over the past couple years there has also been a number of web edits filmed or partially filmed at these jumps including this one from last September.


On April 10th, Mason Rice received an email from the City of Red Deer stating that if we could not formulate a plan to insure our jumps by May 11th they would be ploughed and further building would be prohibited by the city. Our first instinct was to try and join the CABC (Central Alberta Bike Club) which insures the local bike park, however it will be very difficult to convince them to take on the liability, seeing as our jumps are viewed as a high insurance risk without a definite return benefit. Rather they suggested we take the path of creating our own bike club. Therefore we started contacting companies with the hope of finding someone to sponsor us. However, despite receiving tons of verbal support from companies, none were able to work the cost into their budget (especially since we contacted them so late). At this point we created a petition to raise awareness of the situation and have a more organized way to see all the people who want to save the jumps. You can view/sign the petition here.

Here are a few more edits showing the jumps over the past few seasons:

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MENTIONS: @amacdonald @ratherberidin @dun-son @rylansalmon

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