pumptrack

Truckee, California has a new pump track park

Truckee California has become the latest town in California to sport its own pump track. From the looks of it, its pretty sweet too. Located in the Riverview Sports Park the site chosen to host the pumptrack project is adjacent to the current BMX track. At 17,000 square feet, the massive track is actually three [...]

06.28.2012 California Bike Parks Read the full story →

Zen garden of awesome: pump track sweetness in Santa Cruz County

Pump tracks, backyards, bbq and beers always equal an awesome time. Sadly, it has been a while since I’ve ridden a cool pump track. While they are really popular in the northwest, I haven’t really ridden that many since coming back to the Bay Area. I’m guessing this is likely attributed to a few things: one, [...]

06.29.2011 Pump Tracks Read the full story →

SF Urban Riders Pump Track build at the SF Bike Expo

The SF Urban Riders spent the weekend of October 30 building a pump track for 2010 Bike Expo at the Cow Palace to raise awareness for the Mclaren Bike Park project as an example of what could be. The guys spent a week dialing the track in, and it was open for one day to [...]

11.23.2010 From the world-wide web Read the full story →

Backyard spotlight: the ih8bikes pump track

Having your own backyard pump track is a lot of fun. We didn’t get to ride ours as much as we would have liked this summer due to the distant location, but the sessions we did have were a blast. I built an new outer loop extension to the track that really opened up a [...]

10.19.2010 Features Read the full story →

Backyard spotlight: John and Maggie’s pump track

While visiting some friends in San Diego, we had the opportunity to check out a sweet backyard pump track. John and Maggie are mountain bike advocates with the San Diego Mountain Bike Association, and happen to have the nicest landscaped pump track we’ve seen to date. Check it out: John has done some cool stuff [...]

10.04.2010 Pump Tracks Read the full story →

Eichler Bike Park Project in Beaverton gets the green light

Awesome news for mountain bikers in Portland, Oregon: local mountain bike advocacy group, the Northwest Trail Alliance, is about to move ahead with what will be the first sanctioned bicycle skills park (on dirt) in the Portland Metropolitan area. We first reported on the Eichler Park Bike Jump area back in May of this year, as part [...]

09.20.2010 Oregon Bike Parks Read the full story →

The Whistler Pump Tracks

One thing about the trail builders at Whistler; when they take on a project, it gets taken to the next level. Case in point: the pump track constructed for the Ultimate pump track challenge. The symmetrical design and the addition of the center platform removes the need for timers, and creates a head to head race format [...]

09.11.2010 Canada Read the full story →

The Whistler Pump track looks sweet.

The Whistler pump track looks rad. These days pump track design had been going in two distinct directions: one way, race-course style, and more of a free-form dirt skate park style. Either way, done right both are wicked fun. Check this bad boy out: At the moment it sounds like I’m going to make it [...]

07.16.2010 BC Bike Parks Read the full story →

Backyard Spotlight: Izaak’s Pumptrack

If you can’t live next to an epic route or killer dirt jump trails, the next best thing is having enough backyard available to build your very own pump track. That is exactly what my brother Izaak did. A few years back, after hearing about my visit to the holy grail of pumps also known [...]

06.04.2010 Pump Tracks Read the full story →

The Backyard Blam Pump track

The weather here in the northwest is starting to be livable again and now that the sun is back out and hopefully sticking around for a bit, it means it is time to get the BBQ fired up, put some beers on ice, grab the shovels and head to .. the backyard? Jared invited me [...]

05.14.2010 Pump Tracks Read the full story →

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