When Green trails turn Black

[patches]

So once in a while, when riding coloured trails (blue, red, green) some riders find a way to make these seemingly harmless trails into double black diamond type stuff.

 

For example, here is Mr Christmas-tree on a green trail (Rust Preventer) at the PWC bike park, and he has taken some simple rollers and decided to turn them into a 7m gap with a narrow landing, hard up into a berm.

 

 

My point being, that with some skill, and imagination, one can take what seem to be the easiest trails (like the Spruit for example) and turn them into something insane, purely by the way one rides them. (No trail modification needed)

Edited September 12, 2013 by patches

[rouxtjie]

Pretty sure I saw the man on the spruit last sunday....youngish bloke with a hardtail jump bike.

 

Craziest skills I have seen in a while....

[patches]

  On 9/12/2013 at 7:52 AM, rouxtjie said:

Pretty sure I saw the man on the spruit last sunday....youngish bloke with a hardtail jump bike.

 

Craziest skills I have seen in a while....

 

Yup! The lad can tear it up on his little Cotic BeFe

[Ecko_1]

Misleading title

[ZION]

Just like sk8ing,bmxing or surfing,those with better skills see more lines.... ones you never even thought of B)

[Nofearnofun]

is that the pump track

[patches]

  On 9/12/2013 at 8:01 AM, Ecko_1 said:

Misleading title

 

yet you came here

 

Yes, the title is misleading... I used a classic journalist tactic.

[ZION]

  On 9/12/2013 at 7:52 AM, rouxtjie said:

Pretty sure I saw the man on the spruit last sunday....youngish bloke with a hardtail jump bike.

 

Craziest skills I have seen in a while....

Pretty sure he lives and sleeps @ pwc & on his bike

[Sidewinder.]

Rust preventor is awesome (even without making rollers into gaps) I wish the rest of it flowed more like a pump track-it could really do with some maintenance-like the rest of the park

[Hennie VR]

He to will grow old..................and realise that bones don't heal up as fast as they used to.

[patches]

  On 9/12/2013 at 8:04 AM, Nofearnofun said:

is that the pump track

 

Nope. It's Rust Preventer. The trail near the entrance to the bike park.

 

However, those rollers were intended to be pumped, not doubled.

 

Come to think of it... does thos classify as a "double table" as mentioned in that one article about those Saffers offing themselves at cascades before World champs?!

[carbon29er]

  On 9/12/2013 at 8:03 AM, ZION said:

Just like sk8ing,bmxing or surfing,those with better skills see more lines.... ones you never even thought of B)

Definitely!

 

And there are plenty of lines in the flats too....

[patches]

  On 9/12/2013 at 8:08 AM, Hennie VR said:

He to will grow old..................and realise that bones don't heal up as fast as they used to.

 

Note the cast on left arm

 

[patches]

So... back on topic...

 

please share some detail, or rather pics (cos not all of us have great imaginations) of creative fun lines/ways that you ride your local easy trails.

[Hennie VR]

  On 9/12/2013 at 8:13 AM, patches said:

Note the cast on left arm

 

 

Madness!

 

Look how it makes his bike lean to the cast's side

Wish I had skills like that!

[Nofearnofun]

  On 9/12/2013 at 8:08 AM, patches said:

Nope. It's Rust Preventer. The trail near the entrance to the bike park.

 

However, those rollers were intended to be pumped, not doubled.

 

Come to think of it... does thos classify as a "double table" as mentioned in that one article about those Saffers offing themselves at cascades before World champs?!

 

You guys need to learn me how to jump real good now that the moto is "finished"