backyard fun

[andy619]

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.

[CD17]

Wow cool garden, hours of fun to be had there 

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

[JAY]

Mint! wish i had the room to do something like that........nice one Andy

[QUADROPHENIA]

ace andy 

[dirtyvans]

cool, that quarter looks steep  garden bowls are the way forward

[bmxmatt1974]

thats cool, wish i had a bigger garden

[vdubferret]

Jesus you are REALLY in the sh1t when the misses comes back with the shopping! Bobcat looked fun tho! 

[welsh denny]

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.

[billstup]

That looks cool Andy, ride on 

[TwoBobRob]

That looks like fun   

[jackel]

Jesus you are REALLY in the sh1t when the misses comes back with the shopping! Bobcat looked fun tho! 

my thoughts exactly lol my woman loves her garden and would kill me pmsl

[Sean 2000]

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.   

[rosscoe]

fantsatic..........anybody else eyeing up the fence?

[reay900tap]

that is the most amazing backyard set'up I have ever seen, props to ya mate....fooking awsome

[tricknuts]

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.

[Ramp Rat]

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]

C'mon Andy lets have some riding shots on that set up.... 

[bmxer4ever]

Heehee - lovin' it! Nothin better than your own spot that you can sesh every day. Now you just need to get the concrete in.....

[donkeybambam]

MATE LOVE IT