Portland finally got a bike park!

aaronlutze
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Here's a video that I put together about our newest riding spot in Portland. Stoked to have something legit in town!
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Big Bird 12/10/2020 8:13am
12/10/2020 8:13am
Sweet! If only they'ed had this when I lived there in '94-'95. Great to see you still riding trials Aaron.
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meow 12/10/2020 11:42am
12/10/2020 11:42am
I think I saw you there on your trials bike last week, was pretty jealous of your skills. The park looks sick, shame they did the construction over the summer and then opened it right as the weather went to shit. Gonna be interesting to see how well its maintained as with how poor drainage is its already pretty rutted out after being open for a week.

Do you know any of the builders or org doing the maintenance? I live a short pedal away and would like to get involved in keeping it nice and rideable.
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aaronlutze 12/10/2020 11:49am
12/10/2020 11:49am
One of my friends is helping with the build, there is a Google form that they're sending everyone to where you can fill out your info and they'll contact you for volunteering/building stuff: Gateway Green Volunteer Info
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meow 12/10/2020 11:54am
12/10/2020 11:54am
Thanks for that, appreciate it! Would really like to help out and maybe find a solution to the drainage issues that isn't pouring pea gravel on all the transitions.
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aaronlutze 12/10/2020 12:05pm
12/10/2020 12:05pm
Agreed! It sounds like they are going to do a bigger revamp to that zone next year, too - so there should be plenty of opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the trails (without pea gravel!).
bulletbass man 12/10/2020 9:45pm
12/10/2020 9:45pm
Oh man I used to bike thru here all the time for a shortcut to work on the hobo trails.

So cool to see it up and running. They had just announced starting the project just before i left.
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