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Andy_Warden
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Big Jumps. Very steep berms. Double split lines (big jump on one side, rythems on other, rider decides). Also, a tabletop the size of the hamsterley tabletop (as in height / distance).
Also, if possible, in a spare space make some dirt jumps, even if only 2 or 3, just some reasonably steep (i.e. not race jumps) 12 foot sort of stuff just good for practising tricks. I know you probably can't go crazy big...if you can...go as big as possible!
Sounds cool. When will it be open?
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« Last Edit: November 03, 2006, 00:20:41 AM by Andy_Warden »
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chris barnard
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nicccce HUGE ass table tops and lots of them no! doubles! doubles are much better, they take more balls and less people injure themselves on them. people think that just because tables have earth in the middle, theyre safer. not if you cant jump theyre not... i expect a lot of people on here will remember the long table in the les gets bike park. did you notice the ammount of, quite frankly, terrifying riding that jump saw? spend an hour or so watching people ride it, and youll almost certianly see at least one crash, and some horrible horrible stanley stiff backs, deadsailors and rim jobs. wathcing people ride that jump was scary, and is the perfect reason why doubles are better, because no one tries a double if they cant jump already. anyway, in a 4x course, i would have the aforementioned big jumps (obviously), some more technical stuff that takes skill to ride (not just fitness, which seems to win the majority of 4x and bmx races) and maybe a drop or something. also, a couple of corners that arent just berms- as i said, it should be a course you need skill for. to sum up, if you can get away with riding this course on a bmx or rigid bike, you havent built a 4x course. |
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the_chosen_llama
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moguls. theres a section at glentress that has moguls and ive always wanted them to be put in a track somewhere.  [thanks to skimarble] in dalby forest they also have this cool 270degree corckscrew. you start at the top, and like a whirling slide go underneath what you've just ridden, great if the track only has a small contained area.  [thanks to singletrackworld] incorporating a stepup step down is also a nessecity [sp]. good luck with the track on whatever you decide. |
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Pat @ Ison
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tight technical jumps, loose berms, mixture of both flat and bermed corners, little jumps, large jumps. mixture of everything, oh! and a fair first straight with a distance before the first corner, so the pack has time to spread out and make the first corner more fair, we had many problems in this years nps4x with starts being too close to the first corner, so the race becomes a procession, not a race, for inspiration, look at chicksands, just make it longer.... chicky has everything you need for a good mixture of everything, makes for awesome racing.
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Off course all of these suggestions depend on the size of the hill you are building on etc.
