First glimpse of riders trying out the new track here
Impressive huh? Okay, there’s a bit of final spit ‘n’ polish but it makes you proud to be British doesn’t it.
Work on 2012 BMX track completed years ahead of schedule
Thu, Mar 26, 2009 23:44
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Sredlums 2 hours ago
@Blackthorne83 Same here. It's a total bore fest. Some bikes and details have been nice, sure, but I still think it's overrated. There are many people who could make up cool, interesting stuff when given acces to the lightweight, super expensive stuff and a frame to put it on.
fwhite181 6 hours ago
@tomlew I've had one of these for a couple of years and have dropped it/had it thrown off my bike a few times, still going strong even with a few scuffs in the body!
Blackthorne83 8 hours ago
@ROOTminus1 I used to be excited about his creations but now that they are exclusively Scott frames (sponsorship obligations) they’ve become boring, I hate to say, looking more like aesthetic concepts than something you’d actually want to ride. It would be far more interesting to see weight weenie work with small builders or metal for something more unique.
OldTom 8 hours ago
@dreamlx10 Well, someone said if he'd said it whilst he was "rapping" it would have been okay. So, as things are clearly not okay, that person must be assuming he wasn't "rapping". Please be consistent with your WUM efforts.
Rendel Harris 10 hours ago
@kevgravelkev Pondering whether the 10 in the username refers to age, IQ or both.
whosatthewheel 11 hours ago
@Rome73 He couldn't say the same about those things as they were all legal at the time they were taking place. These electric motorbikes are already illegal to ride in public space.
kevgravelkev 13 hours ago
@dreamlx10 oh dear...
dreamlx10 13 hours ago
@kevgravelkev How do you know he wasn't ?
Circles 15 hours ago
@Rome73 The examples you give relate to issues which came up long after those were found to be bad ideas or dangerous. We knew long ago of the problems with illegal e-bikes, the reason for the EAPC regs in the first place.
Rome73 16 hours ago
@Circles you could say the same about so many things; we used to permit smoking on busses and in offices, we used to permit the use of small children to clean chimneys and operate dangerous machinery, we used to permit 14 year olds to drive 125cc motorbikes. Sometimes legislation takes time to catch up with technology and attitudes.
3 thoughts on “Work on 2012 BMX track completed years ahead of schedule”
I remember when all this was,
I remember when all this was, er, a cycle track :O
On a slightly different
On a slightly different Olympic vibe I heard on the news today that the IoC are going to scrap the Olympic Torch relay after 2016. So that’ll be for the 2020 Olympics in 12 years time – on security grounds. And I thought the world of protest, espionage, terrorism and security must be fast paced. Obviously not if they need a 12 year run up.
Shame too cos the torch relay was my favourite event at the last Olympics – we won that didn’t we? 😕
Err, where’s the BMX track
Err, where’s the BMX track then? That looked remarkably like a few temporary ramps with a novice wobbling around and only one decent trick rider. If a temporary ramp is all we can put up for a track then we’ll look remarkably amateur as a nation.