YOUR PARTNER FOR BIKE PARK AND TRAIL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
WHAT IS A BIKEPARK? A bike park is a piece of land that is dedicated for off-road bike riding. Bike parks can include: • Pump Tracks – a continuous circuit of dirt rollers, berms and jumps that loops back on itself allowing you to ride it continuously with little to no pedaling. • Skills Courses – off-road style obstacles and terrain which require technical skills. A condensed area of terrain that most mountain bikers come across on a normal ride. • Cross-Country Trails – narrow dirt trails that combine natural and man-made surfacing. Great for exercise and all types of riders. • Free-ride Zones – an area of dirt jumps and features focusing on tricks, style and technical riding. • Gravity Trails – man-made trails that follow the downhill slope with berms, jumps and obstacles with little pedaling necessary. A bike park can contain one, two or several of these riding styles and areas to create a dynamic bike park that meets the needs of all riders.
WHY A BIKEPARK? With over 57 million people riding bikes in North America the need for communities to have safe, progressive and controlled riding areas is huge! The health benefits of riding bicycles is well documented in combating obesity and nature deficit disorder in children. Bike parks also allow riders of all ages and skill levels to participate, strengthening family and community bonds. Bike parks can be integrated into existing park systems, multi-use trails, beside skate parks or on vacant lands. Many design and budget options are available so communities of all kinds can have a bike park of their own!
WHY ALPINE BIKE PARKS? Alpine Bike Parks is an international leader in bike park design, trail master planning, construction, operations and program development. Our integrated approach results in progressive facilities that meet the needs of all riders. Alpine Bike Parks projects are distinguished by their optimization of the natural surroundings and unique character. We have deep experience in sustainable design and construction in environmentally and economically fragile environments. Our project teams are flexible and specific to meet your needs. By collaborating with planners, professional riders, designers, and builders we have the optimal skill set to execute projects on time and on budget. Alpine Bike Parks has constructed many of the most innovative municipal bike parks in the United States and Canada as well as numerous event venues and destination mountain bike facilities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the Philipines, Italy and beyond!
ALPINE BIKE PARKS IS YOUR TURN-KEY PARTNER FOR BIKE PARK DESIGN, RAMPS, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATIONS & PROGRAMMING.
SERVICES FEASIBILITY AND PLANNING Developing the best bike parks is Alpine Bike Parks mission. The first step in building a bike park is assessing the property, determining the desired outcomes, and identifying the program infrastructure. Macro-level planning is vital to a successful project and ensuring the right return on investment. Alpine Bike Parks respects our client’s vision and views it as a privilege to shape that vision into reality. • • • • • • • • • •
Site Selection and Terrain Analysis Conceptual Planning Trail System Master Planning Bike Park Infrastructure Analysis Trail Inventory and Assessment Stakeholder Consensus Building Budget Estimation Circulation Studies Visual and Noise Impact Studies NEPA / EPA / Permitting Coordination
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT Alpine Bike Parks professionals draw on years of experience building, riding, and maintaining bike parks to provide you with an exhilarating, sustainable bike park. The design phase includes surveys, drawings, documentation and budget development to allow you to move onto construction. • • • • • • • •
Materials Selection Illustrations and 3D Visualizations Construction Estimation and Bid Facilitation Structural Calculations Comprehensive Signage and Wayfinding Programs CAD/GIS/Vectorworks/Solidworks Design Development Value Engineering Construction Documents
CONSTRUCTION SERVICES AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT Alpine Bike Parks offers complete construction services for bike parks we design or we can work from existing construction documents. Built by the best dirt shapers, machine operators, carpenters and builders in the business we’ll make sure your bike park is done on-time and on-budget. • • • •
Full Service Design / Build Construction Management Construction from Pre-existing Plans Construction Review and Quality Assurance
OPERATIONS, PROGRAM AND MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
Operating a bike park is new for most of our clients. Alpine Bike Parks offers operations training, skill-based bike program training and development, management operations assistance and on-going maintenance and risk-management packages. Let us help you maximize the impact of your bike park on your community! • • • • • •
Skill-based lesson programming Group and Camp program development Staff training Maintenance program development Risk management Business modeling
PERSONNEL Alpine Bike Parks’ staff includes leading-edge planners, designers, builders, and project managers, many with world-class bicycle competition experience. This unique perspective enables us to design progressive, flow-based amenities that appeal to riders and create outstanding spectator environments. Our management team brings significant facility development and management experience while our design team brings decades of experience in architecture, graphic design, and product development. With our partners in the architectural and engineering communities, we are able to deliver stamped construction documents for your unique project. For each project, we assemble core staff to create a custom team, drawing on the best professional skill set to meet our client’s vision and goals. Our staff members have extensive experience in their fields of expertise.
THE VALMONT BIKE PARK When it opened in June 2011, The Valmont Bike Park set the new standard for world-class municipal bike park facilities. It also marked the culmination of more than three years of design and construction by Alpine Bike Parks. Valmont is composed of bike amenities designed by Alpine Bike Parks including a variety of Trail Features, Family Cycling Trails, Slopestyle and Dirt Jump Terrain Parks, multiple Pump Parks, and a Dual Slalom Racecourse. It also incorporates a UCI Cyclocross facility, and Cross Country Trails designed by IMBA - The International Mountain Bicycling Association. Valmont’s important precedents include its 42-acre size in an urban area, quality of construction, ease of access, variety of amenities, detail of finish, programming, landscaping, and engineering standards.
TYPES OF TRAILS FAMILY CYCLING TRAILS:
PUMP PARKS
CYCLOCROSS:
• Easier Trails : 2 miles • More Difficult Trails : 2 miles • Skillz Loop – A dirt loop filled with log rides, bridges, rocks, and other learning-oriented features. • Tot Track – A paved loop for small riders on tricycles and run bikes. • Tot Park – A children’s playground for non-bike recreation
• Mesa-Top Pump Park and Creekside Pump Park: Totaling about ½ acre of terrain. • Great for self-guided riding and youth programming.
• Over two miles of race-ready corridor ready for recreational use and competitive events. • 2 permanent staircases ideally spaced for CX; “The 5280’ Run-Up” and “ The Belgian Steps” • “The Sand Box” - A sandpit for CX racing, complete with hand picked, large-grain sand. • Permanent CX Barriers that are available on site for practice and competition use.
DIRT JUMP TRAILS:
• Designed and constructed by World Champion staff of Alpine Bike Parks. • Great for after-school programming. • Permanent, Start Gate and Timing Systems that are available for fee-based programming and events.
• Extra Small, Small, Medium, and Large Jump Trails: About ¾ Miles.
SIZE: SCOPE:
SLOPESTYLE TRAILS:
• Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large Flow Trails: Totaling ¾ Miles of trail. DUAL SLALOM RACECOURSE:
42 Acres Envisioning, Trail And Facility Design, Community Outreach, Construction Of Bike Amenities, Asbuilt Drawings, Signage Plan, Management And Maintenance Plan, Staff Hiring Plan, Risk Management Plan.
FLOWFORM BIKE RAMPS:
• Log Rides: 5 • FlowForm Bike Ramps: 24 • Rock Rides: 24 • Rock Trail Texturing/Armoring: Various.
Valmont is the largest and most diverse municipal bike park in North America. $3.4M Development Cost). Valmont sets new standards in design and engineering for environmental and wildlife habitat protection, engineered and warrantied trail features, and user safety. Valmont has set a benchmark for engineered trail features, which will ease thedevelopment of similar projects in other municipalities.
GAGE BIKE PARK DIRT PUMPTRACK
THE POWELL RIVER
Alpine Bike Parks designed and built The Gage Bike Park Pumptrack incorporating a small beginner pumptrack and a more advanced intermediate pumptrack design. The pumptrack caters to inner city youth and is a great example of what these types of project can produce. Within the first week of the parks use, Eco-Counters tallied up 47,000 tires rolling over the pumptrack. The pumptrack is constructed of dirt and the pilot project will be assessed to determine the potential future implementation of other pumptracks in the city of Hamilton, Ontario.
The concrete pumptrack in Powell River is the first of its kind in North America. Pouring a concrete pumptrack eliminates maintenance and gives park users an un-parrelled riding experience. The pumptrack layout is symmetrical and allows for head-to-head style racing starting from a slanted start gate. This type of concrete pumptrack stands as a bench mark for other parks to follow and is a great example of what the future of pumptracks has in store.
SIZE: SCOPE:
1.04 Acres
Envisioning, Trail And Facility Design, Community Outreach, Construction of Bike Amenities, As-built Drawings, Signage Plan, Management And Maintenance Plan, Staff Hiring Plan, Risk Management Plan.
CONCRETE PUMPTRACK SIZE: SCOPE:
.5 Acres
Conceptual Design, Feature Design, Construction, Construction Documents, 3D Rendering, Signage, Media Outreach, Presentation, Envisioning, Community Outreach, As Built Drawings, City Staff Training, Operation and Management Planning, Storm Water Management Plan
SPECIALIZED HQ ASPHALT PUMPTRACK Specialized Bicycles approached Alpine Bike Parks with the vision of building a network of trails around its corporate campus that would enhance office bike culture, while also providing cycling links between its many buildings, like the Global Headquarters and the Wind Tunnel. The goal of Alpine Bike Parks was to design and construct a selection of trails and associated landscape areas that connect buildings and bring the corporate community together on their bikes. Some of the trails are XC/CX oriented with natural surfacing, while others are paved and deliver pump track flow. The trails are surfaced with asphalt so that they can be precisely sculpted, plus be rideable year-round with minimal maintenance. SIZE: SCOPE:
1 Acre Envisioning, Trail And Facility Design, Construction of Bike Amenities, As-built Drawings, Management And Maintenance Plan, Risk Management Plan.
FLOWFORM BIKE RAMPS SUPPORT TRAIL BUILDERS BY PROVIDING DURABLE, ATHLETE INSPIRED PRODUCTS DESIGNED FOR ALL SKILL LEVELS AND ABILITIES. WHY FLOWFORM?
FlowForm Bike Ramps is the low maintenance solution to your community’s bike park needs. With our expertly designed, precision manufactured equipment your bike community will enjoy many years of challenging riding terrain. Because our equipment is designed to be interconnected and adjustable, your park can be reconfigured and expanded as your bike community grows. FlowForm offers many options to integrate features into your bike park or trail system. Available for direct purchase and installation by our staff or specified in bids by expert trail designers and landscape architects, integrating FlowForm into your project is easy and streamlined. Our expert team is ready to assist you in selecting the best ramp options to reach your bike park goals. BENEFITS OF FLOWFORM • • • • • • •
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