Yo homies!
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Caught that one earlier today, was wondering when you'd get around to posting it over here. 
Very cool!
Very cool!
Zach, you need a bigger backyard
fun and smooth. good job.
solid work...
so out of pure admiration for your skills and hard work your neighbor suggested you use his yard too? sounds like a fantastic neighbor! inspirational as always. thanks for sharing Zach!
Im using your backyard as an example to attempt to get my GF to let me build a pumper in our backyard. I just wish we had the dirt that you do.
That's inspiring, wish I had a back yard though... soon soon
inspiring..excellent work
Looks good Zach, always inspiring. Btw, my ex wife walked about two months after I started in on my yard 
That looks killer Zach.
Tell Kidwoo to get a haircut, hahaha.
Tell Kidwoo to get a haircut, hahaha.
I have watched it over and over again. looked at the photos.
looks rad! I'm looking to redo my track and got some great ideas.
can you tell me acouple of thing? what are the radius of your berms and what are the dimensions of your area you had to work with.
I mad a bunch of mistakes on my first track and looking to avoid them again.
looks rad! I'm looking to redo my track and got some great ideas.
can you tell me acouple of thing? what are the radius of your berms and what are the dimensions of your area you had to work with.
I mad a bunch of mistakes on my first track and looking to avoid them again.
Radius of my berms???
No dude. No.
Build a hundred berms then you will have the perfect radius.
post some pics or video of your track and we could make suggestions....
Zach-
That backyard pump looks so rad. Hard to see exactly what the layout is but it looks fast and hetic which is good. Parts of the vid clip reminded me of a supercross moto. I think if you can't have proper DJ's in the yard then something like that is a very good option.
I got some good ideas from the pics and vid for my backyard setup and started moving some dirt on it yesterday. Pump tracks can be a little on the boring side but if done right they can't be beat for the convenience.
As far as area - see what you have and pack as much sh!t in there as possible. If you have over a 100' straight you should be able to make some jumpable sets in there.
That backyard pump looks so rad. Hard to see exactly what the layout is but it looks fast and hetic which is good. Parts of the vid clip reminded me of a supercross moto. I think if you can't have proper DJ's in the yard then something like that is a very good option.
I got some good ideas from the pics and vid for my backyard setup and started moving some dirt on it yesterday. Pump tracks can be a little on the boring side but if done right they can't be beat for the convenience.
For berm radius you can do what you do when making a ramp tranny. Go in the middle of your turn and take a long ass 2 by and mark a line keeping one end at the pivot. Guys like Zach have built so many berms that they can just tell by sight. I cheat a bit and mark it out but there still comes from a lot of trial and error to get it perfect. Most people can make a good roller or a decent set of DJ's but true digging Jedi's can make berms where you can lay it over and come out with more speed than you went in with.
As far as area - see what you have and pack as much sh!t in there as possible. If you have over a 100' straight you should be able to make some jumpable sets in there.
Thanks. I'm trying to figure out how to turn the big 180 berm after the table tops in to a 90 then put some more jumps in the back
line.
But I want to be able to still
transfer back in to the back line from
the center roller line.
Any ideas? Some kinda Y hip jump or something?
I'd hate to ruin a good berm just to experiment. But that big 12 radius 180 berm is such a speed killer. And the transfer from berm to berm can't be done because the 90 is set to far forwards. So any ideas for more speed making line for mor jumpning would be great.
Zach your **** has such nice flow and seem to carry more speed for some jumps.
After you roll-in down the jump line it's all pump which is cool but more jumping would be more funnerer
line.
But I want to be able to still
transfer back in to the back line from
the center roller line.
Any ideas? Some kinda Y hip jump or something?
I'd hate to ruin a good berm just to experiment. But that big 12 radius 180 berm is such a speed killer. And the transfer from berm to berm can't be done because the 90 is set to far forwards. So any ideas for more speed making line for mor jumpning would be great.
Zach your **** has such nice flow and seem to carry more speed for some jumps.
After you roll-in down the jump line it's all pump which is cool but more jumping would be more funnerer
nice spot btw. like you said, 90 the berm and maybe shorten it a little. make the exit a lip to landing. you should be roasting at that point.
i like to go ride concrete parks and imagine whatever line you tak around a bowl corners as a path....you don't always take the same line around cement bowl corners... if the rider goes low to high in the corner then low again, if you were to cut out just a 3 foot wide path, you'd have a ribbon berm. people don't always go horizontal around a turn. there's also the high-to-low-to high way of going around a cement pool bowl corner.... that's basically why you see berm designs with a tall roller entry and exits--it forces you low into the bottom of the berm, then you exit going up--sometimes those type of berms end up being ridden more like a macaroni tilted at 45 degrees rather than horizontal with the ground...... kinda hard to explain without pictures/drawings....
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http://vimeo.com/10405534
here is a video of it you can transfer one way but not the other and not at speed.
here is a video of it you can transfer one way but not the other and not at speed.
hey you got some good stuff going on there! ... in the other video, of Rory, http://vimeo.com/10407304 i'm digging how much more speed he has. but, in the first video it looks like the two tables are relatively low speed jumps (what are they, about 8 foot gaps?) ... add another 4 feet of height on your drop-in and make both of those jumps longer, up to 12 feet or so and you won't need to mess with the first 180 berm because then the speed will match up better with the radius, plus the thing overall will be more fun. that's my 2 cents.
agreed, cool overall layout! Agree with the 2 cents too, lower longer tables with a bit higher roll in and it might flow a little better. and maybe instead of tables, bowl them out a little and make them a shallow double that way when you're coming back and you dont have as much speed, you can pump'um or manual'um back to finish the loop.
10 ft lip to landing
I can't raised the role in with out getting in trouble with the neighbors
another video
rad, that video is definitely better! looks like you have a fun scene going.
the dude in the red t-shirt and red helmet at 00:45 is going pretty fast throughout. he keeps speed through the first 180 turn, but he racer'd the first tabe and speed-jumped the second one to do it.
so there's a few options:
1. i agree with buckoW, 90 degree to 90 degree would be faster at normal cruising speed.
2. or a tighter 180 berm. i have had this same predicament before. a 180 berm is like a sideways half pipe. a 12 foot transition radius is a monster vert ramp radius. if you do 90 to 90 with 7'6" transitions then it's more like a sideways bmx mini ramp or concrete park tranny.
3. or do a wood wall ride or build the dirt way high, so that you go high in the middle and exit low. even a quarter pipe could work to turn around... but kinda gets away from the pump track spirit though...
looks like the 90 degree right berm at 00:53 is pretty fast. then the 180 right after it at 00:55 seems fast. but then the 180 at 1:02 he comes out of a little slower and takes 2 cranks. how do those two 180 berms compare radius wise... or is the yard on a slight gradient?
overall great job.
Plus you can pump them.
That's actually the first thing I thought when I saw that pic you posted. No way to generate speed in the bigger turns.
Place looks fun as hell though.