Here are some pics hopefully, I am using imageshack, here goes
PICS of Ladders and Skinnies, WestSide OLYMPIA
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thats awesome! now you just need to grow a bunch of trees.....
we call it SHORTH NORE. still open to people comin to ride.......just no environmental debates this time.
some stuff I added to today and yesterday after a good sesh with Bob and Ted, and HOLY**** my wife caught air on our 3.5' kicker to tranny set-up.
definatly cool dude, how many hours do you have into that little project?
about 80-100 hours. I started a month ago.
Where'd you get all the lumber from? Don't your neighbors get mad if the stunts are visible from over the fence.
question #2... how much money have you spent on the supplys... get any freebees, slavage any thing from trash cans and such.
all the wood is salvage. spent about $50 bucks on screws and nails. we even salvaged some of the ladders from a friend who moved and gave them to us. we have folks waiting for us to come pick up more lumber. the neighbors mostly dont mind. interestingly enough neighbors we had never seen or spoken to came out to meet us and suggest a neighborhood demo party. and some are even giving us lumber from their stockpiles. we will see how long this lasts. fingers crossed.
right about now, i envy you for the fact that those bridges are sweet and you can ride because the ground isnt covered in snow or soaked.
Just a tip, if you want some decent traction on certain spots, cedar boards (1X4X8) can be bought for relatively cheap you can hammer them over existing runners, and even cheaper is a bundle of roofing shingles with some nails. Just cut some ovalish or just rectangular chunks on spots you need traction, and space nail using an X pattern.
Looks like fun.
Looks like fun.
looks like some good training for Whistler/North Shore...i need to get a day off work and come session
Nice!!!
i wish the people i ride with near my house wer motivated enough to build stuff like that
a peeping tom eh
With all this rain its an F'in swamp over there....cant ride.......oh where art thou oh sun..............................
i want my precious sun back. i want to ride. its suppose to rain the rest of the week too grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
god damn I want to ride!
Any oly guys found a new spot to build some drops/skinnies/flowpark in the woods?
Any oly guys found a new spot to build some drops/skinnies/flowpark in the woods?
Methinks pangeist is too smart to live in such a place. Escape the Burbs as soon as you can before they eat your soul ... and ... um ... other such antiestablishment rhetoric.bodycheck131 said:
Nice work on the mini-park. Looks like it's smack in the middle of a bunch a houses. Are the local munchkins going crazy with their wal-mart bikes? Damn those were the days.
Funny that you mention that, a few days ago I woke up at 7:30 AM to two kids on Huffys trying the most dangerous of the obstacles.....no helmets...no nothing, just youthful vigor. I yelled out the window "GET THE F#$K OUTTA here YOU LITTLE MON GRELS!!!" Just kidding, I told them to come back and ride when they had helmets and when someone else, ME, was riding too.
AS for some hootin and ah hollerin up in them thar woods.....man, you cant go building stunts in the forest where you park your car hop out and there they are and expect them to be there the next time you go back. Its time to go covert style make the stuff out of what is in the woods, backfilled with dirt and NATURAL looking, camo, out of the way, SECRET.........lets start a secret brotherhood, I am in!
AS for some hootin and ah hollerin up in them thar woods.....man, you cant go building stunts in the forest where you park your car hop out and there they are and expect them to be there the next time you go back. Its time to go covert style make the stuff out of what is in the woods, backfilled with dirt and NATURAL looking, camo, out of the way, SECRET.........lets start a secret brotherhood, I am in!
Do you have no tresspassing signs or any other warnings posted? If it were my property i would have some way of blocking the starting ramps so that some kid couldnt ride when you not there. . One of those mongrels gets hurt and you'd have an angry parent on your doorstep.....pangeist said:
Im in for the secret ops in the woods, although i dont have alot of time to build..... Theres plenty of hard to get to places that have recently been thinned and wont be touched for a long while....
Oly and I have talked about liabilty and signage before too. I've got some trails with, "features" on my property too and have to be really careful and make sure my, "No Trespassing" signs are very visible.
Still, not sure if I'd have anything left after a friend's "next of kin" got their lawyer on me. I don't want to be a downer. But,especially if you have anything to lose, you better CYA as best you can. Despite the WA state laws that do somewhat protect a property owner.
Still, not sure if I'd have anything left after a friend's "next of kin" got their lawyer on me. I don't want to be a downer. But,especially if you have anything to lose, you better CYA as best you can. Despite the WA state laws that do somewhat protect a property owner.
I aint got sh#t!!! Cant squeeze blood from a turnip. Yeah I will be posting signs as the weather clears back up.
a picture of the kicker
wheres the landing?
its there. look close. we have a movable landing to increase or decrease the gap.
o is it the thing closest to the house kinda hard to tell its a landing if thats it
eek that kicker is scary
Its just the photos angle, its 3.5' tall or so and is quite fun. IN the Mudhunnies section you can see a few different angles and my wife testing out, her first day ever on a ramp.
wussythesacrifice said:
damn straightcove rider said:
hahahahaha dumbass
this thread has gone to the birds..........so whos wants to ride the weekend after this one???? Takers???? come on there stuff for all levels.......wussies! There will that make you come ride?