rednightmare
Likes Dirt
Got this quote from another thread:
I'm genuinely interested in the difference between 'trails' and 'jumps'. Seems like the trails scene these days, especially in BMX, is very much about aesthetics (how the jumps look) and lots of work goes into making everything extremely smooth, with super-wide take-offs and landings. Lots of work goes into the building and maintenance and riding seems to be mostly put off until the lines are completely finished. Things like plastic sheet to cover jumps and chains to stop others from riding are commonplace.
So a few questions for the trails guys out there:
1. Why spend so much time making your trails look good? function over form surely?
2. Why not spend more time riding while your building instead of putting it off until everything is dialled?
3. Do plastic sheets help protect jumps in anything other than torrential rain?
4. If you build on public land, why chain jumps off?
5. Why do most BMXers have a beef with MTB dirt jumpers?
6. Why do trails these days seem to have less actual jumps and more rollers?
7. Do you really need to build that 270 berm?
Not aiming to start a bunfight or anything, but curious to know what others' thoughts are.
and thought it might an interesting topic to explore..seems you have some pretty nice land to build on, awesome that more people are building real trails, not just jumps.
I'm genuinely interested in the difference between 'trails' and 'jumps'. Seems like the trails scene these days, especially in BMX, is very much about aesthetics (how the jumps look) and lots of work goes into making everything extremely smooth, with super-wide take-offs and landings. Lots of work goes into the building and maintenance and riding seems to be mostly put off until the lines are completely finished. Things like plastic sheet to cover jumps and chains to stop others from riding are commonplace.
So a few questions for the trails guys out there:
1. Why spend so much time making your trails look good? function over form surely?
2. Why not spend more time riding while your building instead of putting it off until everything is dialled?
3. Do plastic sheets help protect jumps in anything other than torrential rain?
4. If you build on public land, why chain jumps off?
5. Why do most BMXers have a beef with MTB dirt jumpers?
6. Why do trails these days seem to have less actual jumps and more rollers?
7. Do you really need to build that 270 berm?
Not aiming to start a bunfight or anything, but curious to know what others' thoughts are.