New Downhill Trail Updates.

June 1st 2009

I have added a couiple new videos of the latest progress to the chandler trail page. Go check it out!

Downhill Trail Update.

March 16th 2009

Wen't out this weekend to do some work on the trail, I was not able to get a whole lot done myself but thankfully David has been getting out there regularly and putiing in some bood hours. My camera battey dies so I didnt get many pictures either. David has smoothed out some secions of trail that were killing speed, alsmost finished the left handed berm on the top section, addied another small rock drop/jump, and built a transition into the steep section before the fireroad crossing. I spent my time clearing out the ru-in for the rock slab drop, cleared a ton of rocks away and made a good entry onto the rock.

Everything is looking good and some of the guys are going out tomorrow evening to do some work on the rock slab transition. Here are the few pics I took.

 

 

A new Oklahoma downhill trail is born.

March 7th 2009

As some already know, us Tulsa boys recently lost our beloved Turkey Mountain freeride area. Although Turkey was a great spot the stunts required a lot of work and maintenance. Moving forward we knew we still needed somewhere to get our adrenaline fix. We knew of a spot that would be perfect for a downhill trail with a paved shuttle road and about as much elevation as Tulsa has to offer.

With the growing season quickly approaching we are going to try to work hard to have the trail cleared in the next few months. I will keep this site updated with our progress. I think this trail has a lot of potential to be a truly good DH trail.

Click here to read more and for photos.

 

In the mail today...

January 13th 2009

Some goods from GEAX tires. Got these sent to me to test out and send back some feedback. GEAX has revamped their freeride line of tires for 09 and should be pretty competitive in the market. They have have signed Cam Zink as their freeride boy.  









First tires they sent me are the new Neuron and the Booze Light.

The Neurons are a FR/DH tire with triple compound rubber similar to the minion 3c. It is supposed to be a fast rolling tire. They sent me 2.3s but claim they are a "true" 2.3 and are about the same width as a Maxxis 2.5. Cool thing about the Neuron is that it features their TNT technology (tubes, no tubes) the same tire can be ran UST tubless or with tubes on a standard rim.

The Booze light is a dirt/street tire that is supposed to roll super quick. The knobs are quite a bit bigger than the holy rollers I have been running. Should be interesting to see the difference in speed and traction between the two.

Stay tuned for a full review of the tires after I have a chance to get some time in on them.

Yukon Project scheduled to begin Oct. 26th!

October 16th 2008

So if you have been spending anytime on this site then you have heard about, or at least seen the banners for "The Yukon Project". It is basically going to rock, and will be one of the coolest all-in-one ride spots in the state. It will hopefully trigger more ride spots like it in the state. Below are the plans for what is to come. Don't forget the click on the banner above to keep up on the progress. Click here for a full size PDF download of the plans. Thanks to Clifton Sisk for all his hard work in getting these plans drawn up.

Riverside Update

October 2nd 2008

Did some more work on the new jump after the new berm. I steepened up the lip and made it a bit taller. It is a lot better not but now the landing is almost too short, probably going to need to bring that out a little more. We need rain bad! Here are a few pictures. You do not go very far on this, it pops you up pretty good, but you don't have a lot of speed coming into it. You have to hit the berm pretty quick and pump your speed into it, its harder than it looks!

Here is the berm leading into it.

Looking into the face of the new jump

Two more views of the jump

Future home of the next double after you land off this.

The landing as of now.

Riverside Update

September 30th 2008

Over the weekend, David, Adam and myself did some work and rode a little out at riverside. I tried to pack the new berm in as good as I could and we built a small jump after the berm. Due to the berm being uphil it was hard to keep your speed up to hit the jump, I wasn't feeling the flow. I went out today and tore down all our hard work on the jump. I am going to move the jump back a few feet and dig the run-in out quite a bit so that you pump into the face. I might steepen the berm up some as well. I got a good start on it today, we will se how it goes...

 

Riverside berm work started

September 25th 2008

Got the basic shape of the berm laid out today. Still need a lot more dirt and some good packing but it should set you up nice for the new hip/double.

Riverside build up

September 24th 2008

Riverside has been wearing away since last years ice storm, there is still a large limb over the big line and most of the jumps are grown over with weeds. Me and David went out there on Saturday after we heard a little work had been done. I did not see to much change, there was a nice new berm added and one of the smaller jumps had been build up a little larger. We did some work on a few jumps while we were there. I have gone out the last two days on my lunch to do some digging and it is progressing pretty good. I have built three jumps back up so far and the landing on two of them. Riverside digs nice, but the downside is it never packs super hard.

One thing that Riverside has never had is good flow. There is a big line, and when it is built up it has 4 hits in a row but most people do not hit that line. The area where the medium size jumps are never had good flow, you just had a couple of doubles and then you were done. I plan on adding a new berm and a new hip that should link together a pretty cool figure 8 line of 6 doubles. I am sure more could be added in there to keep it flowing even better, but this will be a start. Below is a rockin napkin drawing of the concept. Looks like where the two trails cross would be a good place for another double.