A sweet pump sesh at my house
Two developments:
1. The infield has been flag-stoned — Better Homes & Pump Tracks baby!
2. We had quite the crew — assorted beginners, sports, experts and pros; a former Czech national champion; and a current world champion.
Our bro’ Yosei Ikeda took lots of pictures. And now, in alphabetical order:
 Brian Lopes is in town to see his friend Ernesto and set up a track for the Jeep King of the Mountain Race in Vail. |
 As you might expect, he was ripping it pretty good. |
 Fast and low, low and fast. |
 Factory Clay Watson with the crossover approach. |
 Partial cast list: Bobbi, Petr, Grant, Ryan, Jon, Clay. |
 Dylan is the manual master. |
 Evan’s intense like a Wolverine. |
 James cuts through the yard — and a throng of fans. |
 Out of the berm and over the tricky little double-table. Sweet style. |
 There it is. |
 Everything about Joey’s turn is tight and right — except for that tuft of hair. |
 Joey rips the Patio Straight while Hershey plans his next move — usually onto the track. |
 That Jon Watt — I’ll tell you what. |
 Waaatt Waaaaaatt Waaaaaaaaatt!!! |
 Super low, looking where he wants to go, letting his bike follow the high line. |
 To nail this transition, you have to pump this berm VERY hard. |
 I’m supposed to be on a Caribbean island right now. But with this in your yard, why travel? |
Lopes takes careful notes. |
 Have I mentioned the P.1 rips? This is probably the best dollar-to-fun ratio in the sport. |
 Petr Hanak, shortly before his axle snapped. |
 Petr rocks my SX. Funny: That bike does things with him that it won’t do with me. |
 Zach is the newest member of our merry band, and he’s learning to rip like a champ. |
damn, seems like i came through town a little on the late side….damn those drives from portland to denver….
sicker than SARS
We need to build one of these in Orange County. The problem is there is not a whole lot of land that hasn’t been turned into a strip mall.
Man, you guys make me wanna’ move! (to Boulder, that is). Looks like soooo much fun!
Al, just lease a shop space in South Coast Plaza and build an indoor pump facility. That’ll totally pay for itself — NOT!!!
I think in the photo with the caption “Lopes takes careful notes”, he’s actually trying to figure out where the creak on your bike is coming from! Anyway, thanks a bunch for the invite to your house for the rip session. I had a blast although I worked by broken ribs a little too hard.
Help!!!, I’ve been trying to perfect this whole pumptrack thing here in the northeast. I can’t quite get the concept of the “jumps” I cannot get the distances right or something, I am an expert level mountain-x racer, BMX racer, Downhill racer, Freerider, x-country racer and dirt jumper so it should come naturally but the rollers are all sending me all wrong, the area I’m trying to develope is approx. 50 x 70 feet and the best luck I’ve had with jumps but still not working out is about 2 ft high, slight lip @ 40-50 deg. on front side, overall 4-5 ft length with progressive downside @ 20-30 deg. beginning about 6 inches after said lip. I follow this with another identical approx 8 feet middle of jump to middle of jump (approx. 1 – 1.5 bike lengths on flat between jumps), Am I trying to develope to large of a track to flow? like I said Help!!!!!
i seem to have spoted a P1 (my bike) brilliant bike and worth every cent or penny