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[Closed] We done built a pumptrack

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Well velosolutions built it. We worked for 7 or so years to get here. It's looking pretty damn good. The small beginners track is 100m long. Can't wait to roll a bike round it.
Anyone suggest a decent not too expensive pumptrack bike?
I can't wait to not have to chair so many meetings.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 8:06 am
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Congratulations! That looks pretty epic.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 8:08 am
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Excellent!


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 8:23 am
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Wow that looks impressive! Well done, must be satisfying to have all your hard work come to fruition!


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 8:23 am
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The cricket club are gonna be pissed!


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 8:24 am
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Clark & Kent have just finished the new pump track near my house. I thought it looked the bollox until I saw this one!


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 8:26 am
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Looks great.well done.must have cost a fortune.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 8:32 am
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amazing!

Location - Edit: Scotland! a bit far for me.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 8:36 am
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Epic. Need to get the end of your username changed to hero.

MODS!!


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 8:42 am
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Aye it's pretty impressive from ground level.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 9:21 am
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That looks pretty epic.  I suspect there will be a road trip on the cards soon from Chopwell.

For the one near me, I built up a Dialled Holeshot (long) with 100mm Sektors, Pro2 on Flow with Table Tops, and single speed.  Feels sketchy compared to the FS but flies round the track.  It's way, way better a bike than I'll ever be a rider.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 9:52 am
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The cricket club are gonna be pissed!

Exactly my thought! Amazing what you can get away with in lockdown though. 🙂


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 9:53 am
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SSH they'll never notice 😆


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 10:19 am
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that looks awesome, just wish I could ride it (I'm not close and I don't have the skills)


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 10:30 am
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that looks ****ing epic!

if only i lived closer than 9 hours away!


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 11:05 am
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That looks impressive indeed!

[i]The cricket club are gonna be pissed![/i]
Real ale would be my guess?


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 11:34 am
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*puts Hawick on the map of places to go with bike*

Well done sir, superb. I've ridden a few Velosolutions pump tracks, and they are utterly fantastic things.

I love taking friends and teaching them how to pump - even though I am shit, its such an awesome feeling when you get it right and realise you are going waaaay tooo FASSTT! for the next berm 🙂


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 11:48 am
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Every major town should have a pumptrack its not as if you need a lot of land for the usage it provides. They're so accessible from kids, beginners to pros


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 12:27 pm
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That's the best use of a cricket pitch I've ever seen. Great work!


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 12:31 pm
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Peebles needs one of these. The local opposition would be spectacular.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 12:36 pm
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Every major town should have a pumptrack its not as if you need a lot of land for the usage it provides. They’re so accessible from kids, beginners to pros

Agreed. And every urban cyclepath should have a pump track section parallel to it. No cars, no obesity and plenty of fun. I'll tell Greta and David


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 1:05 pm
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Every major town should have a pumptrack its not as if you need a lot of land for the usage it provides

We have one and our town's a shithole.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 1:14 pm
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Absolutely brilliant, well done!


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 3:42 pm
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Nice!


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 3:53 pm
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Cheers guys. I'm trying to figure out how to tell Mrs 100th that I have to leave for work 40 minutes earlier than usual most days.
Hopefully it'll get folk coming just for a day's play.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 4:08 pm
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When is it due to open? It looks amazing. I live in Innerleithen and my 2 daughters use the Cardrona one. Their eyes lit up though when I showed them pics of this.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 4:32 pm
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I love a good pump track and that one is spectacular!

Was pottering about on the Comrie pump tracks with my 3 year old son on his balance bike, me on my drop barred gravel bike, both of us having a great time.


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 4:41 pm
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Will try and fit a visit in to our next trip to the tweed valley, not far from the a68 so not a big diversion.
All being well Sheffield will have it's own version by the end of the year!


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 6:06 pm
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I live in Innerleithen and my 2 daughters use the Cardrona one

I find that wee one in Cardrona really hard its so short everything feels like you haven't quite finished the last one!


 
Posted : 07/08/2020 7:43 pm
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All things being equal we'll be "open" the end of this week. 😆


 
Posted : 08/08/2020 11:06 am
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Every major town should have a pumptrack its not as if you need a lot of land for the usage it provides

+1 The nearest to me is a 50 mile round trip to the middle of nowhere in a small village, there's literally nothing else there other than a few houses. It's fun but a bit small. There's a better one but that's an 85 mile round trip.


 
Posted : 08/08/2020 11:35 am
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Been packed all day with 2 year olds to 62 year olds ,even busy at 7 this morning


 
Posted : 15/08/2020 10:18 pm
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Looks fantastic 🙂
I learned to pump properly aged 50 odd on a cruiser BMX, never too late to get the hang of something new.


 
Posted : 15/08/2020 10:50 pm
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“A day oot o Hawicks a day wasted” as they say. Well done (from a jealous Gala man!)


 
Posted : 16/08/2020 3:25 am
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Good effort on that - looks awesome, just waiting on some funding requests to come back to get Clark & Kent to redesign and resurface the pump track near me.
(Don't think i'll get the funding for a track that big tho!)


 
Posted : 17/08/2020 1:01 pm

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