Posts about Pump Track biking.
A Pump Track video from when Irwin, Shane, Adam and I (Jeff) were down there on Tuesday afternoon/evening. Let us know what you think.
There’s also the pictures from then and some from the Sunday:
08-07-29 Pump Track JI+JK+Shane+Adam, 8 Pictures
08-07-27 Pump Track JI+JK+Ollie, 10 Pictures
The pictures from the Pump Track the other night are up.
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Conditions were dry, fast and dusty. Highlights included Irwin coming off and Jack pulling random stunts he couldn’t land.
08-05-08 Pump Track, 37 Pictures
Various people were attempting pump jumps and manuals, Nicky even attempting to combine the two, although conceded he’d probably end up on his ass doing the manual before he’d get it right.
Jack got some quite impressive air on his BMX, doing the double and the following drop to flat, as well as the doing the large pump jump. Irwin (pictured) had his first outing on his newly painted BMX with proper cranks and pedals, still no brake tho.
We got to see Shane’s new helmet cam gear although some technical issues prevented a live demo, but he did use his Sony camcorder for some static filming as we trained some loops, so we might see that when it finds its way of his camcorder.
After most people had gone it was just Shane, Ben, Ed and myself (Jeff), I took a few remote flash pics in the tight berm, which I was later pleased to successfully get through and over the next roller. Shane did the bank drop a couple of times. After Ed left we spent most of the time sat on our bikes on the bank just chilling and discussing riding, bike films and parts. When Irwin returned we got the lights out did some loops in the dark.
With longer, warmer evenings coming we should hopefully be able to enjoy more evenings like this one.
08-04-03 PumpTrack Evening, 29 Pictures
We had a successful dig day at Joe’s on Saturday, with Joe, Jonny and myself (Jeff) present. Joe had already done the first roller line and the majority of the berm. The first thing I noticed about the rollers was they were pretty big, twice the size of the ones at the Bamford Pump Track, also the track slopes slightly down into the first berm, meaning you can just roll into the first berm without much effort if you want to.
The berm is a little different to anything I’ve seen or ridden before, the down slope from the roller is quite long before the berm starts to curve, its fairly tight with a high wall and steep angle on the wall. The exit is the interesting part, a metre high large roller. It took some time to perfect the roller position, angles, and size, and even more time to perfect riding it. The combination of speed tightness and the exit roller means the berm has real kick to it, sucking you in and spitting you out where you don’t expect to be. If you don’t get you line right you end up shooting out the berm and going of the right side of the roller, or if you don’t have the speed to make it to the summit you have to jump off you’re bike and back to ground level. O and braking cos you’re scared would be a mistake too. 
After we had finished digging for the day Jonny headed home and Joe and I pushed up the hill for some razzin ‘n shootin. I set up my flash on the extension cable and Joe sent the loose bracken flying.
As it got darker I noticed the sky was looking good with dark clouds and some slightly pink sky in between, after a bit of fiddling with the flash brightness and shutter speed I had the camera set to get the nice sky in the shot too.
I decided to go a bit controversial and keep the flash burst in shot, I think it adds something.
I threw the wide angle lens into the fray later on and then with the setup good we swapped over and got some ones of me looking quite good for a change (the pictures and riding, not me 
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When we came back down the hill we stopped at the rocky track for some more shooting, it was pretty much dark by time I’d set up, so Joe had to stop as soon as the flash fired and blinded him. 
Thanks to Joe’s mum for the egg and bacon cobs, not just cos digging is hungry work, but more for the opportunity to see Joe make the Text Book mistake when eating an egg cob… again. 
I doubt it will be long ’til there’s another dig day, so make sure you get yowr ass to the next one, in the mean time check out the progress in the Image Gallery.
08-02-23 Joes Dig Day JK+Joe+Jonny, 28 Pictures
On Friday night we went to ride the pump track, there was me (Jeff) on my hardtail, Irwin on his dad’s rigid, Pete on Irwin’s full-sus, and Tim (Pete’s mates not his brother) on his full sus, so attention soon turned to the jump. We had enough lights to light the jump and landing, so Tim was first, he later found out not only had anyone present done it in its’ current state, but also no one had done it in the dark, oh and that it’s structure was mainly metal based.
I had some new flash accessories meaning I could place the flash so its’ light was coming from a different angle, giving a lot more deep to the image than when it’s mounted on the camera. I’m quite pleased with the results, the biggest problem I had was focusing the camera in the dark.
With it being freezing (literally) and the prospect of something feet warming from Irwin’s drinks cupboard we only stayed there for about half an hour.
08-02-15 PumpTrack Night, 8 Pictures
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