Would you drive 50 miles & pay $40 to ride @ a lift acessable bike park?

Depends on what the bike park includes. I drive to bear, but its not the greatest riding. Where would this bike park be? I wouldnt mind getting a great bike park (Like rays in Ohio) in San Diego. Thatd be great! Dont know if I would throw down 40 bucks for one sesh, but Id be willing to pay.

Do you want a bike park in so cal? Hell yes.

Is price a concern? To a degree. I'm not going to fork out $60.00 for a shotty half assed bike park with nothing but fire roads. I

How far are you willing to drive to ride a sick bike park? Up to 4-5 hours.

I drive 100+ miles to race RC cars on weekends. So hell yes I'd drive that far for a good down hill bike park. One in San Diego county would be ideal of course. But anything within a couple of hours would be great.

i drive that far to my "local" spots already.... so yes, i would make the drive....

the price isn't really a concern for me if it's truely for the greater good of the biking community...

Do you want a bike park in so cal?
it can't happen soon enough!!

Is price a concern?
somewhat. Quality of trails, time of operation and type of shuttle/lift access would determine that. If it's full of sick DH trails with well constructed and maintained stunts and features, I would not hesitate to shell out some good cash for a lift pass. Even a year round/season pass if it was good enough.

How far are you willing to drive to ride a sick bike park?
I drive 5 hours to ride Mammoth without much hesitation, so 3-5 hours is easily done.

kev211 said:

Depends on what the bike park includes. I drive to bear, but its not the greatest riding. Where would this bike park be? I wouldnt mind getting a great bike park (Like rays in Ohio) in San Diego. Thatd be great! Dont know if I would throw down 40 bucks for one sesh, but Id be willing to pay.

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I would think $40 is fro as many as you can ride, not 1.
Tamarack is $35 or $40 cant remember and we'de rock it 6-7 times and its not a little mtn.

Seems like the mtn just N of LA that opened again for the first time in 5 years might be a good spot. 5 enthusiasts bought it to keep it from being plowed over and developed, the trails are double diamond so they should provide a pretty good base.

jonnybiff said:

I'm looking into that as a option.

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I saw it on the ch11 news and thought that it would be a good rpospect due inpart to the owners are enthusiasts vs corporation (overseas) giants.

Do I want a SoCal Bike Park w/ lift access? YES

Am I willing to pay $30-$40/day? YES

How far am I willing to travel at least 2x a month? 4-6hrs one way

Would I be willing to pay $300-$400 for a season pass? YES

$40 a day would be sweet, and about 2-3 hours would be nice... But hey I also went to Mammoth 5 times last summer

I've been thinking about a bike trip this summer. I'm thinking about doing either Big Bear or Mammoth. But if we get one closer, I'll be able to do rides like that more than once a year.

hell yes

Yes
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Abstrakt51 said:

Do you want a bike park in so cal? Hell yes.

Is price a concern? To a degree. I'm not going to fork out $60.00 for a shotty half assed bike park with nothing but fire roads. I

How far are you willing to drive to ride a sick bike park? Up to 4-5 hours.

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i have the same response as abstrak51 on all of the questions.

Yes,
I'd pay up to $35 a day if there's a chairlift, lots of sweet trails and no fuggin nazi hikers.
I'd drive 4-5 hours 3-7 times a year to hit it up.

Yes.

Mt. Waterman or Kratka Ridge up Angeles Crest used to run summer lifts for bikes back in the old days...
Mt. High would be the most convenient.

yes i would, now the price would depend on how good the place is, if it was worth it i would pay the money to ride there

yep to every one of the categories, but really only if there were good things to look forward to!!!
such as trails that are DH only, FR only, DJ only, XC only and then good trails that are a mix of it all!!! but that planning comes later, for now: YES!!!

cheetaprowlerDH said:

yep to every one of the categories, but really only if there were good things to look forward to!!!
such as trails that are DH only, FR only, DJ only, XC only and then good trails that are a mix of it all!!! but that planning comes later, for now: YES!!!

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LMAO!!!! DUDE you cant even get to fontana!
We'll send you pics if it gets built.

YES to all your questions!! A bike park within 2 - 3 hours of San Diego would be insane (in a good way )!!

Thanks for the input everybody! I don't want to say too much right now except that we've had a very good response from a local resort (not summit or baldy) and that things look fairly positive for the future of a bike park with a race series in SoCal. This is something we've been working on and dreaming about for several years, to see it come to fruition would be awesome.

W4S said:

Thanks for the input everybody! I don't want to say too much right now except that we've had a very good response from a local resort (not summit or baldy) and that things look fairly positive for the future of a bike park with a race series in SoCal. This is something we've been working on and dreaming about for several years, to see it come to fruition would be awesome.

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Make sure you get directions so you dont get lost! They may not have female joggers to get directions from!

bullcrew said:

LMAO!!!! DUDE you cant even get to fontana!
We'll send you pics if it gets built.

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hahaha, seriously!!!

oh, pics? you really hate me enough to send me pics???:biggrin:
all i'll be able to do is stare and wonder... haha, jk

I've got a few questions:

How many hours are you willing to help build a bike park?

Who's willing to get help find funding to build a bike park?

Who's willing to help organize, administer, Maintain, etc.?


Perhaps we'll have more than 1 bike park in Socal...

mark@sdmba.com

BullittX said:

I've got a few questions:

How many hours are you willing to help build a bike park?

Who's willing to get help find funding to build a bike park?

Who's willing to help organize, administer, Maintain, etc.?


Perhaps we'll have more than 1 bike park in Socal...

mark@sdmba.com

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I would def love to help build and organize to get a bike parl built in socal. Especially san diego! Funding??? Im just trying to stay afloat right now, but Id love to help build and Ill do whatever it takes to get a decent park built nearby.

I'd pay $40 if you had a foam pit.

yes, who wouldnt?

I think its be cool to get something built in San Diego. If anybody wants to do this, PM me, and maybe we can get the city to help chip in and build a place to ride kinda like Rays in Ohio. So ya, PM me, and we can start a petition to go around San Diego. I think we can get this done

kev211 said:

I think its be cool to get something built in San Diego. If anybody wants to do this, PM me, and maybe we can get the city to help chip in and build a place to ride kinda like Rays in Ohio. So ya, PM me, and we can start a petition to go around San Diego. I think we can get this done

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theres not gonna be a park in san diego. we dont have any lifts here.

who said anything about lifts? I think were talking more about something like a freeride park. Lifts would kick a$$, but I think something like this would be ideal...

http://www.raysmtb.com/inside.html

I think it would be sick to have something for all types of riders. Some street, some DJ's, maybe a foam pit, some indoor freeriding stuff. I dont know, I think that would be up for discussion, but first we need to get it off the ground. Im all in... Whos with me?

Why not drive that far? I have to drive everywhere else in Socal including to riding spots...
Has to have some sick DJ's. I'm thinkin like the elevation jumps at Whislter...

From SD, I would drive up to 2 hrs every other weekend for something at least as good as Mammoth/Northstar...I would drive up to 4 hrs if it was Whistler style...

kev211 said:

who said anything about lifts? I think were talking more about something like a freeride park. Lifts would kick a$$, but I think something like this would be ideal...

http://www.raysmtb.com/inside.html

I think it would be sick to have something for all types of riders. Some street, some DJ's, maybe a foam pit, some indoor freeriding stuff. I dont know, I think that would be up for discussion, but first we need to get it off the ground. Im all in... Whos with me?

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that park looks kinda fun, but sure is a long way off from actual mountian biking! any park around here will have very small vertical change, bummer. ha one dude here even said he would drive/pay if its like whistler, no sh##t! (good luck with that, you know any 3500 foot mountians around with lifts real close by????) it takes whistler a whole crew to build and maintain those trails.

Good Day Fellow Cyclists!

It’s was an awesome day out at the Stump Grinder Dirt Club outside of Los Olivos (directions http://www.ridesb.com/syvclassic_mapdirections.htm) yesterday. This weekend is going to be just as nice and there are no races! What a perfect time to come help build a private mountain bike riding area! This is the site of the second largest mountain bike race west of the Rocky Mountains, the Santa Ynez Valley Classic presented by Platinum Performance the weekend of May 15th – 18th http://www.ridesb.com/syvclassic.htm, and we’re again the second stop on the National Mountain Bike Series (NMBS). Online registration is open now at https://www.sportsbaseonline.com/Item.aspx?id=2070. This is our local race that just happens to have become an important race internationally as well since the pros will be vying for very important UCI points for the first time! Remember that while we at SG Productions organize and promote this event, we do so because this area deserves a mountain bike race of this caliber and because YOU deserve a race of this caliber, THIS IS YOUR RACE! Please volunteer to help on the weekend of the race we really need you. To volunteer please email both me hecktone1@cox.net and Drew Hunter at watair1@earthlink.net.

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This is pretty exciting stuff, a 100% private “club” that mountain bikers can go to and ride in peace, without conflict with any other trail user groups, and no bells needed! The SGDC has even received coverage in national mtb publications and has the ear of the bicycle industry. There will be skeptics, but we already have sold our first 12 memberships so this is going to work. Don’t worry if you’re not a member you can still visit by paying a “gate fee” of course if you join you get clothing, event discounts, free camping, discounts at bike shop sponsors and many other perks.

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Hope to see you at the SGDC this weekend! ANY OF YOU SOCAL's THAT DECIDE TO COME UP AND HELP, YOU CAN CAMP SATURDAY NIGHT FOR FREE!

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Stump Grinder Productions
(805) 896-0673
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kev211 said:

who said anything about lifts? I think were talking more about something like a freeride park. Lifts would kick a$$, but I think something like this would be ideal...

http://www.raysmtb.com/inside.html

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Uh, the thread title says "Would you drive 50 miles & pay $40 to ride @ a lift acessable bike park?"

So yes, I think we are talking about a lift.

When we had Snow Summit, I would drive up there (from the OC) at least every other weekend. That was way more than 50 miles too.

Now that SS is closed to bikes, I drive up to Mammoth at least 4 times a year to bike.

$40 in lift tickets is chump change compared to the 4 tanks of gas I burn going to Mommoth.

yes we need one badly!!!!!
I will do anything!

I would love to see it, I would pay to ride it. I am not holding my breath for it.