Bike Park

Me and the kids hit the bike park the last few days.

Made a video letting the wife choose the music, and daughters help with color transitions.



It was a lot of fun. The best part was the second day, SuperDan met us out there and he gave me some tips on dropping in on the steep, vertical walls that lead into the pools and elsewhere. The process is sort of terrifying.

First: Ride slowly up to the edge on an angle (the drop is too steep to go straight at it. (Unless you kick the rear end of the bike up, it will hang up on the cranks badly.)
Second: Shut off brain's self preservation mode and commit!
Next: do a tiny jump, point the front down and roll in and through.

It looks sooo easy in the vid, but I had to step up my game in a major way to get the courage to try this. Eventually I was able to do it on 20", 26" and 29" wheeled bikes. It didn't seem to make much difference. I think the 20" wheels get more handy as you start to catch bigger air, which I have no real desire to do.