Canada Olympic Park Gets New Bike Park
MONDAY, 28 APRIL 2008
Submitted By: Edmund Jadol
Canada Olympic Park, owned and operated by the Calgary Olympic Development Association in Calgary, is home to Southern Alberta's only gravity-fed mountain bike park. Having served the bike communities of Southern Alberta and beyond as a venue for extensive mountain biking programs and regional, provincial, and world level events, COP has been well-known to mountain bikers as a bike park with a mish mash of stunts piled into a small geographical region... until now.
It has been clear to everyone over the years that COP needed a facelift. Our trail system was originally designed for cross country riders to climb up our west trees area and then ride down the east trees, which has resulted in a “spaghetti bowl” of a trail system. Over the past 10 years, enthusiastic trail crew members have worked to adapt to our size constraints by building a network of stunts sporadically around the west trees. While what existed was fun for most, we needed some help in building a brand new, smooth-flowing bike park that could once again stoke out the mountain bikers who call COP one of their shred spots.
To say it took a lot of time and hand wringing to finally get the go ahead to have Gravity Logic of Whistler Blackcomb and Crankworx fame (www.gravitylogic.ca) at COP would be a bit of an understatement. Once the approval came through, every stunt anyone has ever known to be a part of COP was torn out of our West Trees and Tom, Dave, Rob, and Ryan of Gravity Logic were on site mapping out what will work out to be one very sick bike park for 2008. Construction has been moving along at a decent pace considering both the size of the project and the frustrating unreliability of Alberta weather in April (running machines in the snow is no fun!).
Building a brand new bike park from the ground up is hard work and takes a lot of bodies! We've worked very hard over the last few weeks to get a lot of the grunt work done with clearing trails, ripping out old stunts, and putting up new ones, but it is easily a job for a crew quadruple our size. That's where the Calgary biking community comes in.
Want to get involved in trail building, get your hands dirty, and have a free lunch (on CODA)?
Head out to the Park at 9am-3pm on Saturday, May 3rd. You'll get a sneak peak of what we've got in store for the bike season and the opportunity to have a hand in making some history at Canada Olympic Park.
Mountain bike season is upon us... Now pick up a shovel!
For more details, please visit www.canadaolympicpark.ca.
Source:
www.pinkbike.com
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