Lyons Bike Park Love

I'm generally not a big sessioner. I like to cover ground and get into the middle of nowhere. Despite all of that, I've been having a good time at the Lyons Bike Park lately. It's great to spend a 1/2 hour at the park here and there honing the skillz. Some days I'll make feeble attempts at dirt jumping or I'll spend some time working the pump track.

Today I took the singlespeed to the rock slabs to work on something a little more technical. Rocks. Good stuff. Good stuff with lots of lines.

The rock line down the east side has baby, mama, and papa bear lines. I'm still working on some of the big daddys.
The rocky obstacle in the south of the park is pretty round and mound shaped so you can hit it from any angle. Doing so provides lots of options.
The west side of the pumptrack has a nice climb with some good ledges to roll or drop in varying sizes.

There's even a few lines you can get really creative with.
Big shout to Dave Cosgrove, Glenn Bell, Lee McCormack and countless volunteers for their time and drive in this project. If you want to stay in tune with what's going on at the bike park, check in at the parks Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/lyonsbikepark

Golden Bike Park news

I just got this email from the Golden Bike Park gang. They've got some good momentum on a cool project down there, check it out :)

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Golden Bike Park Supporters,

We have been very busy the past few weeks!

If you don't already know, the Golden Bike Park was approved by the Golden City Council. We quickly moved to into the permitting phase and dialed in the logistics. Terry Breheny stepped in and worked hard to get all the permits approved prior to project start. The crew mobilized quickly to start the pre-trail construction, starting the bio-swale, stormwater work, and removing scrub from the area's of interest. We are well on our way to getting this project started.

IMBA, in conjunction with COMBA is bringing in a world class trail designer for our longer 'Flow Down Hill' Trail. He will start work on the bi-directional and downhill flow trail later this week. The Golden Bike Park Group got the skills development area cleared of rubbish and put in a skeletal pump/jump/flow track. We'll be working final design and initiating work on this area within the days to come. We are ensuring that the skills area is for everyone from kids on Stryders, Adults on XC bikes and kids on dirt jumpers. This will be an area where the entire family can work on their biking skills!

You can glance at the progress from the Fairmount Trail, accessed from Tony Grampsass or connected by North Table Mountain Trails. Please keep off site until we are complete with the construction and the park is officially open.

Many of you have asked to be volunteers in the future design and maintenance of the park. We still have these lists and will be contacting you within months to help with final form and fit of the trails.

great tuesday nighter

Thanks everyone for coming out. I think that ride, to this day, was the least carnage or mechanical filled Tuesday Nighter at Lion's Gulch yet. Only 1 minor mechanical and 2 flats and we were even out by dark. dang. We'll have to try harder next time.

The climbing was tough



There was a good, not oft ridden meadow


and some fun desceding


Jen G takes one of the hard sections and makes it look easy.

Shredventure!

Sunset Park has the sickest jumps ever!

This is probably the biggest jump i have hit in my life, although it may not look like it.

Austin, my friend who lives up in conifer drove me all around to some fun fun new spots, we only filmed at sunset park and a little bit at the fix, but heres a little video i put together. enjoy.

Lyons DJ/Skills Park Workday June 7th

We had a good turnout to knock out more of the skills park work that needed to get done in preparation for the Lyons Outdoor Games. Thanks to everyone that came out, the progress over the past 2 weeks has been unbelievable. We got to Dig & we got to Ride....here's a taste.

Thanks again for every one's support over the last few weeks, hope to see you this weekend at the games. www.lyonsoutdoorgames.com
This weekend is going to be OFF THE HOOK! Check out the Schedule HERE.

Day at the Park

Next weekend is time for the Lyons Outdoor Games. We'll have a bunch of cool kayaking events, chainsaw carving (?), skate competition, pump track contest, dirt jump contest, and a mountain bike short track. Whew.

Today was one of the last big build/work/jump sessions at the Lyons dirt jumps before LOG. I worked at the shop today and got over to the park when most of the work was starting to wind up. Thanks to all who were there for working and helping to get the park in shape.

Here's a few shots from the latter part...

Sam doubled the roller line.


Chad was representin the over 30s


and Sam was so chill he had to rest his hand on his knee

Sam Powers' Jumps

Its All Mine

Lots of lines

mini bike =P


berms


The whole deal

Many hours have gone into the creation of these jumps, let me know what you think.

Lyons Jumps

This is the first jump, Me and a few others finely tuned it today.

bigggggggggg

Bmx?

So, I decided to have a couple of friends over today. I knew they were good, but they still managed to blow my mind with their bmx trickery. Matt Cordova, winner of the Lyons Outdoor Games Dirt Jump Competition, and his friend, who I didnt get many photos of, Garrett Drier, brought their bmx bikes and their bag of tricks to the Sam Powers Compound and tore it up.

Matt thought it would be fun to try out my custom painted Children's bike. It worked out pretty well.

Here I am, just trying to keep up.

Matt, throwing a tuck no-hander.

Tailwhip!!!

And here's Matt and Garrett. Matt looks to be fine-tuning the flat black 16-inch. Or, Dave thinks that Garrett is saying, "Mine's bigger than yours!"

Snowy Dirt Jump Funtime!

Everybody is probably sitting at home, just chilling out, waiting for all of this unwanted (in my opinion) snow to leave us. Well here at the Sam Powers Compound, we ride in 10 degree weather. Here's some documentation of this frigid fun. 

Snow can be fun.

Although riding my bike and wearing my helmet, that isn't me, it's Norway's own, Andreas Li....somethin'. Haha.

New Tricks!

We strive for fun at La Casa Del Sam.