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andy619

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backyard fun
« on: March 01, 2008, 01:44 PM »
I was given a portable quarter-pipe last month, thanks again John, and I set it up on the side yard of my house.  There was a 5' high sloping dirt bank opposite the quarter pipe 40' away.  The bank helped to gain speed toward the qp but with all the pedeling both ways and due to my advanced age, I got tired quick.  So something had to be done.

Before,
dirt bank


from the top of the bank looking at the QP


After
not quite an embankment anymore




We had the bowl compacted and 3/4 of the way shaped and the hips had several good lines cut in, but then it rained.


The deepest part of the bowl is around 5.5'.  The hips are almost 4'.  The transition is close to 7'.  Thankfully there was little erosion from the rain and my son and I were able to ride for a couple of hours this week.  Today we do the finishing touches and then session.




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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2008, 02:03 PM »
Wow cool garden, hours of fun to be had there  :daumenhoch:

How cool must your boy feel to have a little skatepark outside his bedroom window  :coolsmiley:

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2008, 02:11 PM »
Mint! wish i had the room to do something like that........nice one Andy

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2008, 02:57 PM »


ace andy  :daumenhoch:

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2008, 06:50 PM »
cool, that quarter looks steep  :daumenhoch: garden bowls are the way forward

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2008, 07:46 PM »
thats cool, wish i had a bigger garden

vdubferret

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2008, 08:18 PM »
Jesus you are REALLY in the sh1t when the misses comes back with the shopping! Bobcat looked fun tho!  ;D

welsh denny

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2008, 08:48 PM »
looks a treat. i remember we used to have a few mud bowls and mud 1/4's bitd in cardiff.  (i remember one guy-denim- he used to do 6ft airs on a 6ft high mud quarter which was oververt. he used to bone  to avoid landing on the flat and sometimes hang up half a wheel. plus you used to have to avoid the tree roots sticking out the 'transition' and the ruff gravel car park. this was before cardiff museum had its extension and the small car park was demolished. great times)
i'm sure you'll have some great times out the backyard this year.

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2008, 09:14 PM »
That looks cool Andy, ride on  :daumenhoch:
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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2008, 09:25 PM »
That looks like fun   :)

jackel

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2008, 09:29 PM »
Jesus you are REALLY in the sh1t when the misses comes back with the shopping! Bobcat looked fun tho!  ;D
my thoughts exactly lol my woman loves her garden and would kill me pmsl

Sean 2000

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2008, 12:26 PM »
Andy, that is way kool mate.

As others have said, would love to have the room to do that. My boy would love that in his yard.

Sean.   :daumenhoch:

rosscoe

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2008, 05:35 PM »
fantsatic..........anybody else eyeing up the fence???????

reay900tap

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2008, 07:56 PM »
that is the most amazing backyard set'up I have ever seen, props to ya mate....fooking awsome :daumenhoch:

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2008, 05:41 AM »
wow that looks great. everytime i go for a walk around my neighborhood, i look to see if their back garden is big enough for a ramp. I dream about having a QP in my garden. I need to buy a house first tho'


keeping posting pics Andy. especially of some action shots when it stops raining.

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #15 on: March 07, 2008, 07:59 PM »
Andy - killer set up...is a racing/freestyle hybrid park - bet put on some knobbly Comp III's for that tight berm. Got to make it down to San Diego soon.

yoda

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2008, 08:51 AM »
C'mon Andy lets have some riding shots on that set up....  :smiley6600:

bmxer4ever

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #17 on: March 09, 2008, 01:47 PM »
Heehee - lovin' it! Nothin better than your own spot that you can sesh every day. Now you just need to get the concrete in.....

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Re: backyard fun
« Reply #18 on: March 09, 2008, 07:42 PM »
MATE LOVE IT  :daumenhoch:

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