In defence of the original poster, and the track builders.
The downhill tracks I've ridden in Australia suck compared to the tracks overseas. Sorry to all you 'Aussie-Pride' proponents, but it's true.
However, I still think the trail builders are doing a great job.
How do you reconcile the two statements? It's simple. The trail builders are making the best of a bad situation.
The bad situation exists because Australia is flat. It's hard to make fast, long downhill tracks in a flat country.
This leads to a further problem - there isn't much commercial interest. In Livigno or Morzine firms operate chairlifts, and can make money. A chairlift at Ourimbah, Oxford Falls, Old Bathurst Road, Awaba, or Pacific park just wouldn't make money. Thus, firms with their big digging equipment, paid staff, and lobbying power aren't too interested in creating massive downhill tracks. At Mottolino, there are berms which are taller than me, and tabletops which are taller than my house. You just can't get those without paying people to build them!.
So, if noone pays people to construct the tracks, track building is left to amateurs with a passion - as volunteers.
It's unfair to expect volunteers to be able to build massive tracks. They can only spend limited amounts of time building. It's not laziness. They are merely honouring their responsibility to preserve their, and their family's well-being.
People have been distinguishing between constructive and destructive criticism in this thread. It is my submission that the original poster's criticism was very constructive. He identified specific issues which caused the track to bore him.
1. Only one proper burm (sic) (ie. difficult to carry speed through)
2. Do (sic) decent jumps or drops (not sufficiently challenging)
3. There is alot (sic) of uphill sections
4. The track doesnt (sic) flow well at all
5. The amount of pedaling (sic) required is more than a cross country ride.
This criticism would be USEFUL, not just to the event organisers, who might be baffled as to why their event isn't as popular as they imagined, but also to trackbuilders - both at pacific park and in other locations.
Oh, and by the way. It seems trendy for people to periodically post something to the effect of 'ha! You can't post! You aren't a trailbuilder."
Well, I'm not a trail builder. I've never been to a volunteer maintenance day. I don't care. I'm probably not going to go to one for a downhill track in the foreseeable future. I don't need to make excuses. I just can't justify spending that time on something which is a hobby, not a passion. Don't get all offended and angry by this - I'm just explicating what thousands of others in my position are expressing by their non-attendance.
