North Delta pumptrack

Hey everyone,

Derek from Dirtwest has been hard at work on this new pumptrack for the municipality of Delta. The track is located at the North Delta Recreation Centre at 84 ave and 114street in Delta BC. Here is a little gopro chesty of a quick la on opening day.

Definitely go check out this fun new addition to the lower mainland riding scene!

The Shire

Take note: water your jumps, round your edges

This lil edit comes from the Shire, a spot just south of the border.

Tree planting

On October second, volunteers from Dirtwest, Honda plus staff from the City of Surrey and Forests Ontario got together in Invergarry bike park to plant 201 native trees and shrubs. This is the fifth year dirtwest has participated in plantings in the bike park. Our total is now over 1000 trees and shrubs installed throughout the park.

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Invergarry tree planting

Come join the City of Surrey and volunteers from Dirtwest and Honda as we plant native trees and shrubs in Invergarry park. locatyed at 11297 Surrey Road.

October 2 11am-1:30pm
For more info call 604 501 5050
or visit the facebook event   HERE

Invergarry

Little Shredder surfacing

The City of Surrey teamed up with some from volunteers last week to resurface the green flow trail: Little Shredder in Invergarry bike park! No more bumps and rocks poking through the trail. Most of the trail has been capped in crushed gravel to smooth things out and increase durability. The nice thing about crushed gravel is that surfacing material can be material added on top and it will adhere really well. It rides great and is only on rollers and not any berms or corners. The decision was made to use it over the clay-loam due to a lack of moisture in the soil on site at the time of the volunteer event. With no water at Invergarry summer building is tough to do.  

Invergarry

grass reclaiming an underridden section

mid process

a little further

done for now... now we need rain

Sometimes the best time to build new stuff is when its dry and dusty. Its really easy to make some moves on stuff that can't/wont be ridden until the rainy season. This is one such spot... a part of the cornercopia pumptrack was growing grass(a sure sign a line isn't being ridden) so we switched it up... Now to wait for some rain so we can pack and shape it into a working line. That's the trade... easy earth move but a line that wont be finished for a while... 

Cornercopia

last week I was in Invergarry after the rain.... 

Invergarry

before

after

Invergarry Cornercopia pumptrack got some love this weekend, Special thanks to the rain! More please.

Fun Fun park

Fun Fun park pumptracks 

Just a minor update on Fun Fun park pumptracks. They are up and running. 

Peppermint bike park

This is a neat new concept that integrates off road and on road cycling in a bike park. It shows how its not a far leap from sport to transport. This could be a great new way to get young cyclists interested in commuting in the future.

Published on May 8, 2015

Peppermint Bike Park 🚴

mountain biking for the urbanite

Velosolutions

This is the future of pumptracks. All weather all wheels tarmac tracks. Asphalt is the way to go!

this one is by Velosolutions

This is the future of pump tracks and outdoor play areas. Large scale pump tracks 'pump parks' that incorporate features that any urban wheeled vehicle can have tons of fun on. Skateboards, BMX, Mountain Bikes, Scooters, Balance Bikes

Fun Fun park pumptrack

We finished up the pumptrack at Fun Fun park in south Surrey last weekend. Here is a timelapse of the action...

Fun Fun

the two tracks at Fun Fun Park

contouring and packing crushed rock

We were at Fun Fun park on Saturday and finished the run-bike track and surfaced the large track in crushed stone. The next step is to cover the stone in mineral soil and pack. More photos after the jump>>

Cornercopia

The day's crew

Dirtwest was out in force today in Invergarry bike park on Saturday. We completed some major improvements to the north side of the Cornercopia pumptrack. Check out the photo’s below, and this timelapse of the work!

Invergarry

Some trail gnomes just beamed over some pumptrack love. Looks like a little reshaping for the 180 corner at the North-west side of the track took place.

before-ish

after

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Powell River

this is the future of pumptracks

So look what happened in the center of the universe; Powell River BC. Alpine bike parks and Spectrum Skateparks have teamed up to build North America's first all concrete pump track. You are looking at the future of pumptracks. Permanant, maintnenace free facilities that are usable by anything with wheels: bikes, skaters scooters and inline skaters, 

Invergarry tree planting

Today we planted 95 trees and 105 shrubs in the meadow area between Little Shredder and Excitabike in Invergarry Bike park. We had a great turn out of volunteers from SORCE! Big thanks to the City of Surrey for supplying tools, plants and people power too!  In the past three years SORCE has planted over 500 plants in Invergarry park alone. Food and drinks were generously donated by Guildford Starbucks located at 10174 - 152nd Street

SORCE Toonie Race @ SSBP

The last race of the 2014 SORCE Toonie series happened last Sunday at the South Surrey Bike Park. The race course was a backward loop of the Junk Yard Dog trail. Here are the photos of the action. Feel free to grab any photos. Race Results here

Shed Toonie Race

Here are some photos from the SORCE/Shed bike club Toonie race at the Delta Watershed yesterday. The next XC race is at South Surrey Bike Park on October 19. The City of Delta is holding a grand opening for the Holly Park pump track October 4 and there will be a SORCE kids race October 5 on the BLT trail at the SSBP. Results are available here

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Invergarry Grand Opening photos

More photos after the jump>>>
Invergarry bike park is now open. Central City Brewers and Distillers supplied all the food for the event. Super huge thanks for the restaurant quality burgers!