Scotty's Sacred Ride - Video
Scott had the initial idea for this bike park last winter. Months of planning and sourcing the location, materials, and community support allowed Thornhill to follow through with this dream of his, to make Calgary's first dirt jump park.
After 10 days of machine digging, the four-person build crew had finished the line, with weeks of hand digging and months of riding afterwards to get the line ridden in properly.
Unfortunately, the 'Land Renter' at the time moved elsewhere and left me and Scott with a bike park, but no permission to ride. We worked with the city to attempt insuring the jumps because Scott's original intention was to open a public park for everybody to ride.
Fortunately, the new Renter was stoked on the bike park, and let us finish the project but the jumps have since been torn down, and all we have to show for our work is this video.
MENTIONS: @andrewyoung / @scottyt2
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13 Comments
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Yarlezy
(Oct 28, 2016 at 5:02)
It's very unfortunate that all the hard work only left you with one season of riding. Take this video and some keen ideas for progression, pump tracks and begginer lines to the city parks and rec department, maybe they will let you build a "Hoots" style progression park. Contact Jay Hoots for advice!
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Austyn83
(Oct 28, 2016 at 6:32)
I would love to see a pump track in calgary! Theres definitely a bike culture here that would probably take advantage of a pump track
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scottyt2
(Oct 28, 2016 at 6:41)
@Austyn83: Check out the new Fish Creek pump track!
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rippersub
(Nov 15, 2016 at 17:15)
@scottyt2: I went last weekend, took my BMX, glad I did, the transitions are SO tight between the rollers that I think the majority of them would be next to impossible to "gap" any significant sections, particularly on a MTB, maybe I'm just shit but it was harsh as hell on a BMX gapping anything, and manuals get old pretty quick.
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Kramz
(Oct 28, 2016 at 6:53)
Really good riding! The Chestermere dirt jumps are worth looking into as well if you need a good place that will hopefully never get torn down, there's kids there who are pretty good as well, and it's free.
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scottyt2
(Oct 28, 2016 at 14:06)
Thanks! Chestermere is fun for sure!
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alaskaskier
(Oct 28, 2016 at 6:26)
Nice jumps and riding. Its cool to see such talent in YYC
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scottyt2
(Oct 28, 2016 at 14:06)
Cheers!
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bmxed
(Oct 28, 2016 at 16:33)
Yea dudes! We need more jumps around here thats for damn sure. Looked like it was fun to ride
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BrotherCraig75
(Oct 29, 2016 at 12:19)
The "man" will never stop bikers passion for progression! Looked like a great setup, nice work!! On to the next
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smatchett
(Oct 30, 2016 at 9:27)
I'm from Calgary to any good spots?
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galliwasp
(Oct 28, 2016 at 5:58)
Right on, lads!
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nathanlawrence
(Oct 31, 2016 at 7:07)
Killed it with the oppos
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