This weekend saw the first dirt jumping competition happen at the Garden Route Trail Park. A new line of jumps and excited MTB and BMX riders was a recipe for an awesome day of action!
Riders from all over the country made their way to the bike park for Monster Energy’s Dawn of the Dirt. Justin Novella, Thomas Sandell, Rob and his team have been working hard making an amazing jump line extend from the pump track with some unique features, one of which is a log drop-off, which separates it from the usual straight jump line.
Many riders made their way to the bike park on Friday to check out the line and enjoy the scenery. Saturday was game time and started with riders warming up and getting familiar with the line. It didn’t take long before tricks started to get thrown down. Malcolm Peters was one of the first to get things dialled in and was tricking every jump and putting the crowds jaws on the floor. PE local David Rigby also didn’t take long to get upside down and threw a few flips mid line. Trail boss Justin, was dominating the MTB side of things as he flowed through jumps with ease and showed the crowd his big bag of tricks.
After warm up the track was closed for a quick water and patch up, so some riders made their way to the bag jump to practice some more risky manoeuvres.
The clouds rolled in and the wind slowed to a breeze. Luckily the rain held off, so things were looking perfect. The intensity grew as the competition started with riders trying to link the jumps and tricks together and really gave the crowd a good show! In the end, Justin took the crown as MTB champ and Malcolm’s array of tricks was too wide to match and he walked away with the BMX title.
SRAM Enduro
looks great out there !!
Duran Duran
Rad to see you out there to Jeremy