Brand New Quarry Skills Area - Open Now!
Brand New Quarry Skills Area - Open Now!
Ask and thou shalt receive!
Earlier this year we undertook a customer survey to ask you guys, our visiting riders, what you want us to build as we start a new exciting phase of trail building here at BikePark Wales. A skills area came through loud and clear in the awesome feedback you provided, so a skills area is exactly what we are giving you.
This isn’t just any skills area though. Yes, you will find all the goodies you would expect from a skills area, graded drops and jumps (and yes, we have built jumps that are exactly the same, one line gaps and one line tables to build your confidence with gap jumps), rollers, skinnies and berms. What we’ve also built though is some amazing technical terrain to build your all mountain trail skills in a progressive environment. We’ve built the skills area in the quarry near the start of Popty Ping which means we have some amazing bedrock features to play with and build a really unique “Steeps” zone which is home to some amazing technical bedrock rolls and drops. This is a very unique area, the likes of which you don’t often get to ride in the UK and the trail crew have been able to build something really special, we’ve even been able to sneak a pro-line in there!
We are really happy with how this build has come together and we hope you are going to love it as much as we do. Big thanks to Duncan and Ian who have been the lead builders on this project, it has been a challenging technical build with a lot of handwork and the weather has thrown us our fair share of challenges as usual, great work lads.
The skills area is now open, and we can’t wait to hear what you think of it. See you on the trails!
The BPW team