How to Build Pond Bike-Jumping Ramps

Time to have some fun! All you need now is a lake or neighborhood pond and a bike. Make sure the lake/pond is deep enough before jumping or you could ...

Pond jumping is an extreme sport in the area of freestyle BMX riding. Riders pedal toward a ramp and launch off the ramp and into a pond or lake. While soaring through the air, the rider ditches his ...

Mike Gaboff, of Millstone, New Jersey, was launched from a six-story ramp across a Californian lake for a motorcycle stunt that was to be used in a movie trailer on April 21.
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It is a thing of beauty. For at least a decade, this wedge of land just west of Jamaica Pond has been a hidden haven for bike enthusiasts. They hand-built trails of bumps and jumps, and got airborne. Tucked between Parkman Drive and Prince Street and largely hidden in the trees, it remained secret. And then a couple of years ago, Kyle Orrico and a couple of buddies decided to make the park into something more ambitious. What they achieved leaves you gape-mouthed. It starts with perfectly formed bumps, and symmetrical berms. A hairpin turn is glass-smooth. Beyond it are huge doubles – ramps more than ten 10 feet high – where cyclists soar. They did a great job. So great, the city is shutting it down.
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Seventy-five feet under the Louisville Zoo, in a labyrinth of Kentucky limestone mined into Swiss cheese, a few million pounds of soil have been sculpted into the trails, berms, and jumps at Mega Cavern, the world’s first underground bike park.