Call me an old wowser, but considering where they were built, I'm a little surprised they weren't bulldozed months ago. When I saw them a long time ago, the area had just been flooded and the jumps were very fragile, not a good place to build. Now if the builders had of put that kind of work into the council approved area, he and his friends could be riding every day for the summer on mint trails. Just sayin!
No. This just popped up in one of my news feeds and I thought it might be of interest.
Were you out there tonight JD?
I'm all for that, I'll ask Adam next time I'm there. I haven't ridden them yet (too hard on a slopestlyeish bike and my 24" has been sitting half done for a few months), but I doubt I'll be able to do half of the stuff there. Even Adam (the guy who built them) was having trouble clearing stuff
yeap it was I
With a bloke on a Trek? If that was you, I was the guy on the black XTC coming out of there as you were going in.
yes - the guy on the trek was a friendly English git I met up at Bruce's. I didnt mention the cricket.
Video didn't work for me. Good to see them being ridden, but I stand by my remarks in my earlier post: a lot of effort for jumps that don't get used all that much; jumps that replaced previous trails that were getting used by a considerable number of people. I'd wager that these jumps won't get used much in the future either.
Previous trails getting used by a considerable number of people? For as long as I can remember, the trails in the that spot have been harder than they are now. While Adam's jumps aren't easy, they're certainly not much more difficult than in previous times.
Again, you seem to be misinformed. Adam can and did clear all the jumps, so did a couple of other blokes. It can't be helped if on certain days the jumps aren't hard enough due to rain. It's common sense, rain makes all type of trails slower.
Well thats not true- they used to be tables and even I could ride em on a 29er SS with the sweet little rollers into the berm before the jumps.
So are the current jumps harder or easier? You've contradicted yourself in the above quote.
Well, others have said that the last 4 didn't get hit on the ride days???
Thing is, there was a smaller set in that area but it got demolished and the dirt used to build what is there now (and a previous version with tabletops). What has been built caters for a very small number of riders who hardly use the trails. What's more, until recently, the run ups were chained off so unless you were in with 'old mate' you couldn't ride them anyway...
