We attended the grand opening of our pump track last night. The MSU State News crew was there, and wrote up an article and posted a little video.
You can see the article and video by clicking here, for now, anyway.
If you watch carefully, we're all in the video. I'm the very first rider you see on the track. Abbey is on her orange bike, but only her bike and legs are in the video. Quinn is riding the track in the background, and Cindy was caught standing in the background, but is never seen riding.
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Wait. Abbey on an orange bike? Black shorts? Blue decals on her front fork? I believe she cheated by pedaling.
ReplyDeleteDespite the theory that you can ride the track without pedaling, most cannot make it all the way around, especially through those corners. To do it without pedaling, you have to stand up all the time and ride very hard and fast so that you can maintain momentum through the berms. You have to be comfortable entering the turns at full speed and making full use of the berm.
ReplyDeleteRelative to her size, Abbey's bike is too big for her to really pump through the rollers. She'd have a better shot at it on a 20" BMX bike that would allow her to stand bend her knees fully as the bike crosses the crest of each roller. A couple feet of clearance between butt and saddle is best.
There were a few really good riders there who could do the whole track repeatedly without pedaling, but most of the time that evening it was too crowded for them to really ride. See the kid in green in the background at 10 seconds, and the guy on the purple bike at 20 seconds.
I could do each loop without pedaling, but after passing through berms on the east end I usually had to pedal a couple of turns to bring my speed back up.
We have Quinn's BMX bike and another old BMX bike I got from a coworker some time ago. We might take those to the track sometime. Since we've been riding from our house to the track (about 4 miles), we prefer to ride multi-geared bikes rather than single-speed BMX bikes to get there so it doesn't take quite so long.