Port Kells trail day

A trail day to buff the jumps and finish the new pump track that will be machine built next week is happening June 8. Come help out! Bring a shovel and water for yourself. We will supply food and drinks. Lucky trails are located in Port Kells park in Surrey BC

 More info at the Facebook event page HERE

Mark Balcita

This edit was filmed at Port Kells Park/Lucky trails. Dirtwest guided the machine during the rebuild there earlier in the year, as you can see its running real smooth these days This guy pins it down some trails in Squampton at the end. Nice edit

Went to go hang out with Mark for a few days. We shot at Lucky and Squamish but unfortunately had to cut filming due to a crash. Shot by John Stockburger. Music: The Strokes - Machu Picchu

Port Kells Park rebuild video

This video is a timelapse of the machine rebuild/run-in upgrade at Lucky trails located in Port Kells park in Surrey. Dirtwest was there at the last rebuild too check that out here

Port Kells DIrt Jumps rebuild

Jordan, John and Derek from the SORCE bike club directed the 2013 rebuild of Port Kells Park dirt jumps.

The main goals of the rebuild were: A larger run in. Better advanced jumps. Addition of a pump track and turning gaps into step up table tops with super wide landings. The last time we supervised the rebuild we made some great progress 'click here for last rebuild'. The last rebuild was in 2011 and at the time we weren't able to build a pump track, or make the jumps into table tops due to time and budget constraints. This time around we succeeded in making the Lucky trails a true dirt jump  destination.

 Port Kells dirt jumps/Lucky trails are located at 19260 88 avenue in Surrey at Port Kells Park (behind the outdoor pool)

before

 

SORCE trail days 2012

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This is the last SORCE trail day of the year at Port Kells Park. Be sure to show up to help buff the jumps. The focus is simply making all the lines look tip-top. Be there this Saturday June 16.

Come get your shovels dirty and help keep this awesome jump spot in the great shape its been made into .

 Lunch will be provided  so it is important to let SORCE know you are coming thru the Facebook page

We need to know how much food will be needed, please sign up!


 Swag/prizes donated by Velocity Cycles. Sign up on the facebook event page.


This event is rain or shine

Port Kells Dig Day!

Armed with the new tools provided for us by the City of Surrey we commenced to complete the big set of jumps at Port Kells Lucky Trails. Although we had a modest turn out, a ton of work was completed including a transfer line from the middle set to the big set.

Big thanks to Travis at Velocity Cycles for providing some awesome DVD's and a flat of much needed Red Bull. Thanks as well to Kelly from Eye of One clothing for the sick t-shirts, and Lisa at Price Smart Foods in Clayton Heights for the gift certificates for lunch.

Looking forward to seeing more people coming out to session the jumps and add more features on the next dig day June 16.

More pics after the jump.

SORCE Trail Days

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There are TWO more SORCE trail days at Port Kells Park. The next one is Saturday May 19. Come get your shovels dirty and help get this awesome jump spot ready for the approaching riding season. Lunch will be provided  so it is important to let SORCE know you are coming thru the Facebook page


We need to know how much food will be needed, please sign up!


 Swag/prizes donated by Velocity Cycles. Sign up on the facebook event page.


This event is rain or shine

Port Kells dirt jumps

Lucky Trails Panorama

volunteers hard at work on the jumps

 The second SORCE trail day at Port Kells Park went down yesterday. The dig-day was led by Jordan and a ton of great work got completed.  I snapped photos of the results yesterday's hard work. Thanks to all of the eighteen volunteers! Special thanks go to Travis at Velocity Cycles for all the great Swag that was given away! Be sure to drop by Velocity for any of your biking needs!

MORE PHOTOS AFTER THE JUMP>>

SORCE Trail Days

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There are three more SORCE trail days at Port Kells Park. The next is this saturday April 21. Come get your shovels dirty and help get this awesome jump spot ready for the approaching riding season. Lunch will be provided  so it is important to let SORCE know you are coming thru the Facebook page

We need to know how much food will be needed, please sign up!

 Swag/prizes donated by Velocity Cycles. Sign up on the facebook event page.

This event is rain or shine

Port Kells trail day photos

Port Kells trail day

some of the crew wearing hoodies generously supplied by Velocity Cycles

we worked on the medium set, next time the large set gets the love...

I'll post the time-lapse in a few days... check back soon

SORCE Trail Days

Today 10am-3pm

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There are four upcoming SORCE trail days at Port Kells Park. Come get your shovels dirty and help get this awesome jump spot ready for the approaching riding season. Lunch will be provided by the Surrey Partners in Parks program so it is important to let SORCE know you are coming thru the Facebook page to give us an idea of how much food will be needed. Swag/prizes donated by Velocity Cycles. Sign up on the facebook event page.

This event is rain or shine (let's hope for shine).

SORCE/Dirtwest Partnership

Some really great news has occured over the past couple months. Dirtwest is now partnered up with SORCE. I (Jordan) am now an executive member of Sorce. In my new role I will be focusing on the development of new riding facilities in Surrey.

So what does this mean to you ? First of all SORCE is officially changing their mandate to represent all of Surrey, and will be now working towards the continued maintenance of ALL surrey bike parks including Port Kells, Cloverdale Athletic Park, Invergarry Bike Park, South Surrey Bike Park, and working towards the development of additional facilities in the future (hopefully near future).

Some of the things we have on the go are: the completion of Invergarry bike park (which is slated to be complete by summer), trying to get SORCE represented on the Outdoor Sports Advisory Committee which will give us even stronger representation and lines of communication with the city, the return of the Junkyard Dog XC race, trying to get the 604 pump track legitimized or at least get some kind of official permission from the city for it to exist, and trying to get a plan of action to make the Surrey Bicycle Recreation Facilities Strategy a reality and in a timely fashion, and most importantly to unify the mountain biking community in Surrey to give us a stronger voice.

So what we need from you surrey's riding population is your voice! If you guys could check out the SORCE website and facebook page and click on the like button that would be awesome. If you want to take it a step further and join SORCE that would be 10 times as awesome. The reality of it is the more people we have on board the louder our voice gets, the louder our voice the more we are heard and listened to. More people more cool stuff!!!

Port Kells Park

Today at Lucky Trails:

Thanks to: the City of Surrey, Special thanks to: Denis @the City. Cliff, who donated amazing dirt to the dig day. Kevin, the excellent machine operator who made the plan into a reality. We were super happy to be a part of this project.

Watch the a time-lapse of the dig day

We expect to hold a Partners in Parks/dirtwest 'buff the jumps' day at the Port Kells bike park in September. Check back for more info.

More photos after the jump>>

Something wicked

This way comes....

...more info after Wednesday August 24th

Port Kells Park

We had a great turn-out at the meeting last Thursday. We met with Denis, Alana and Preeti from the City of Surrey as well as a number of youths from around the lower mainland to discuss improvements and designs for upgrades to Port Kells park.

Preeti, Alana, and Dennis from City of Surrey

Everyone was asked for their opinions on the future of Port Kells Bike park. The Vote was unanimous in favor of the dirtwest designs for a new pumptrack and 3 rows of step-up table-top jumps and a new taller start mound.

meeting in session

The City is taking our designs back to their Design team for review, and to form an action plan for the upcoming dig day and how to best spend the ~$2000 budget the City of Surrey has to spend towards upgrades to the bike park.

dirtwest designs on display

In the meantime we have contacted one of the contractors who built Willoughby bike park in Langley. He has informed us that a $2000 budget would allow him to operate a machine for two days at the park and supply dirt all within the budget available. We suggested to Denis at the meeting the idea of hiring an individual with real riding and jump building experience to maximize the work done by the machine and ensuring that it is not money wasted on an inexperienced contractor. We will forward this info to the City of Surrey.

Port Kells Park

We are meeting with the representatives from the City of Surrey tonight. We will be discussing improvements to the dirt jumps as well as the addition of a pump track at Port Kells Park in Surrey.

Here's a sneak peek of what we've prepared:

Port Kells Park

At the Invergarry Open house we asked about revamping/repairing the Port Kells Dirt Jumps. We submitted a design requesting more quality dirt so we can make a new roll in, turn the jumps into step-up table tops(low maintenance and still good riding) as well as a pump track.

The City want s to consider all the opinions of local riders and is holding a meeting at the park on May 19 at 6pm. Come out and comment on Dirtwest's plans and have your input heard. If we are successful with this effort we intend to continue helping the City reform it's existing bike parks (Cloverdale) as well as create new ones. (Fleetwood, Fraser Heights, etc..)

Dirtwest's Preliminary Design (changes to come)

OPEN HOUSE

We had a really great turn out for the Open House. If you weren't able to make it out there, you still have the ability to have your opinions heard. We have attached the comment form PDF. Simply fill it out and fax or email it to the City.

During the Open House we also had an opportunity to ask some hard questions about the other bike parks in Surrey which have no organization to look after them(Port Kells and Cloverdale). A representative for the City of Surrey told us we will be contacted within ten days regarding some much needed servicing/maintenance/improvements to the Port Kells Jumps. We also met with new SORCE president Dale Thiessen who was out to show support for the Invergarry bike park. We talked about the future of bike parks in Surrey and the future of SORCE, stay tuned for more.....

Open house attendees

COMMENT FORM PDF HERE -Mail or fax to the City prior to May 6 2011

604 pump track

The weather has been Sunny with cold nights lately. So we stopped by the track yesterday to see if we could get some laps in. We found a muck laden frosty mess.

Here's a short video of Jordan getting some slippery laps in:

We also went on a walkthrough yesterday of local bike parks in Surrey(Port Kells, cloverdale and the proposed Invergarry bike park). We will be posting the videos soon. Despite our track being rideable, the City built parks didn't fair so well, giant puddles and unrideable features are what we encountered at Port Kells park.