building a little something to represent the home state suckaz
building a little something to represent the home state suckaz
Is that gonna be for the bikes?
bikes and cokers
i dont think wooden berms are worth the hassle… they are fun, but teters and stuff are keuler. but hey, if you have the time and $ go for it.
Thoes look rad, only they need to be bigger!!! Maybe attach a vertical wall to the back side of it to do a bit of wall riding.
Looks like there need to be some plans in the mix for a Muni event at Planet Zod sometime…
It ain’t that bad…that berm took about 6 hours and all my wood is free. We build it all out at PZ, if all we did was teeters I’d have 50 teeters out here and how fun would that be?? You gotta mix it up and have a little bit of everything. I currently only have one teeter btw…personally I don’t like them b/c the 2nd you install one you limit that section of North Shore to being a one directional stunt and we like all our stuff to be bidirectional. I do have some plans in my head for a bidirectional teeter though, it involves some chicken wire and a bowling ball!
The turn has been elevated and I started planking it last night…it’s solid, doesn’t remotely budge!
Sweet! I wonder if anyone could ride a banked turn like that on a muni?
So when is the ‘Zod Muni Weekend’ gonna be?
That is awsome…Post pics/video of you riding that stuff( bike or uni, doesnt matter) when your done.
I think it would defenitly be muni ridable…maybe more scary up higher, but ridable. I’ve done turns like that in skatepark bowls. Just not high up.
If you wanna come all the way to NC from NV to ride on 3 and a half acres then I’ll let you name the weekend
more finished…sorry for the crappy pic quality, it was dark
Oh wow I wasnt expecting it to be elevated like that, it looks rad!
Sorry, dude, it does matter. We don’t watch b*ke videos here, except to laugh at the suckas!
The stunts look cool… why are they so close to the ground?
Duhhhhhhh thats why I said it! Thats probally the reason its so low to th ground, its so bikes can ride it aswell. Zod is probally just being nice to all his bikey freinds.
Forget the lame pics, go for some action shots!!
We elevate everything out at my place…that is the whole vision behind our master plan. We decided rather than try to build a trail system in my woods with a North Shore style stunt here and there that it would be really unique to make a trail system that was 95% North Shore, everything elevated, bi-directional, multiple routes and cut lines, etc.! It eats up a lot of wood and time but it is definitly something different!
Where the turn starts in the picture it is about five feet in the air as it turns to the left it is going into an incline of a hill so the ending is a lot lower than the beginning simply because of terrain. Plus the whole turn doeshave a 5 degree downward slope to give it a different sensation depending on what direction you hit it from.
As for being nice to my bike buddies, they’d ride it if it were 10 feet in the air…we don’t build anything higher than 6 feet or so off the ground (unless it’s a run-in for a big drop) simply to conserve our lumber supply.
Oh and like I said before…I suck at riding North Shore stuff on one wheel. I’m a mountain biker 1st and a mountain unicyclist 2nd. I have no other one wheelers around to push my to ride this stuff. I need some of you psychos to come down and show me how it’s done!
I would like to see someone hit the high banking of that turn on a coker
We finished it up enough today to finally get to ride it…here is a shot and 2 vids I took of my buddy Calvin hitting it. Basically it’s as fast as you feel like going, you’re gonna stick! I don’t know that I have what it takes to hit it on one wheel but after riding it on my bike I don’t think it would be a big deal for some of you guys who are good on North Shore.
http://gallery.unicyclist.com/albums/albux33/tiles_nascar_1.avi
http://gallery.unicyclist.com/albums/albux33/tiles_nascar_2.avi
That does look like it would be doable on a muni. At first it looked steeper than it looks in the video. Hard to tell from 2D pictures.
There was a banked turn on an elevated bridge at the ski area in Tahoe. Everyone who tried it was able to make it around. I was too chicken to try.
But your banked turn in longer so you have to stay on the bank for a longer time and make more of a turn. It would be a matter of keeping the line all the way around and not getting a pedal strike on the uphill side.
Here’s a picture of Gilby on the banked ladder bridge at Tahoe:
It’s steeper than it looks, you can barely stand on the bottom camber, and there is no way you could stand on the top camber. I’ll go out there tonight and take an angle reading but I am pretty sure the bottom is over 30 degrees and the top is about 45
Looks great…I might stop by and try it out next time im passing by your way.