Went for a walkthrough of the new bike skills park in Kelowna recently. It’s about the last thing to do before we get official sanctioning on this project. Check out the easy line.
Now check out John Cowan sending it on the big line. There’s everything in between here.
The thinking is that by providing a real set of jumps, we can avoid the high maintenance factor of people ripping apart the smaller lines in order to make bigger ones. Hopefully these are big enough to keep the groms happy for a few weeks anyway.
JC also did an amazing demo on how to maintain the jumps. I wish I‘d videoed it, as it was incredibly educational. Maybe I’ll be able to trick him into doing one another time.
Ahhh…this must be a City gig. Lots of oversight.
The snakes like the park too.
Alright, the park is open. Here’s the rules. Learn them, know them, live them.
Looks fantastic. My wife was out there for the ladies’ camp and thought it was really well done. I was surprised by the gaps on the medium-sized lines — isn’t it pretty standard in a public park to do tabletops everywhere except maybe the huge lines? For newbies like me, that’s the difference between trying/learning and totally chickening out, and filling in the gaps certainly doesn’t affect the riders who are clearing them every time anyway. Was it a cost issue?
Interestingly, we had similar comments about the gaps. As it turns out, many more people get hurt on tabletops than get hurt on gaps. Which makes sense, as you are talking about basically “sending it” before you are ready for that size of jump. Definitely not a cost issue, and totally a risk management issue.
When you are ready for those medium jumps, you will have no problem with the gap and will land it perfectly.