How to Build Pond Bike-Jumping Ramps

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Tip 1 - Pond-Jumping Ramp

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Cristina Neacsu | permalink

To beat the heat this summer, we decided to do something fun, creative and slightly extreme. Jumping the bike into our neighborhood pond seemed like a...

For further reading: http://www.instructables.com/id/Pond-Jumping-Ramp/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - Jump Into a Lake!

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by V 151 ON | permalink

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 ...

For further reading: http://www.instructables.com/id/Pond-Jumping-Ramp/step6/Jump-Into-a-Lake/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to Build Pond Bike-Jumping Ramps

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Germain Delagardelle | permalink

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 ...

For further reading: http://www.essortment.com/build-pond-bikejumping-ramps-119845.html ^[3]

Tip 4 - Moment a bike stuntman's flaming jump over a lake went horribly wrong... but he miraculously lived to tell the tale

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Geert Ceulers | permalink

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.
Tags: Moment,bike,stuntmans,trick,went,horribly,wrong,overshot,pond,survived

For further reading: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157254/Moment-bike-stuntmans-trick-went-horribly-wrong-overshot-pond--survived.html ^[4]

Tip 5 - City shuts down bike park near Jamaica Pond - The Boston Globe

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Adam Castleton | permalink

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.
Tags: Kyle Orrico,Jamaica Plain,Jamaica Pond,Frederick Law Olmsted,John Iappini,Gerry Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted

For further reading: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/06/city-shuts-down-bike-park-near-jamaica-pond/P3sEihgVcqliSXISoeFRsL/story.html ^[5]

Tip 6 - Mountain Biking Takes It Inside

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Adonis Vlachopoulos | permalink

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.

For further reading: http://www.outsideonline.com/1928631/mountain-biking-takes-it-inside ^[6]