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By hawkeye - Posted on 04 September 2011

Had lots of fun, although wasn't game to try riding all of the woodwork. The flow track is great fun, although I agree Black Flash's comments that it's much too short.... looking forward to Stage 2! Riding it was a real hoot, though. If I was up there by myself I reckon I could spend an entire session going around and around.

The pump track was hugely popular with the kids. By the time we returned from our exploration of the fire roads off the eastern end of the park, it was packed.

The see-saw is tricky... getting the speed right is not easy. Could possibly be a half-to-one metre longer on the elevated end to widen the margin for error, as it's not much more than a bike length long in its current form. I found you almost have to come to a stop to get it to drop. Or maybe I just need to harden up. Sticking out tongue

Footage of the flow track to come as soon as the Contour site finishes processing it.

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Watching others use the see saw I noticed that it didnt tip until the bike was completely past the fulcrum.

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I was there last saturday, I've never done a see saw before, so my 1st attempt run up was way too fast and went flying off the end when it probably had a foot still too come down, great stack much to the amusement of about 20 kids, parents and my mates. Got it in the end and it was pretty much a stall past the centre.

The skills park was a good laugh, tracks were good but over with too quickly, what's the plan part II going to be?

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Well, the less said about my second and third attempts, the better. Sad

Stalled and went off the side the second time and lost a little skin, the third time I overcompensated and was a little fast - thought I was going off the end like you. Got ready to huck off the end and ... the see saw finally dropped and I overbalanced off the back and landed flat on my camelbak. :oops:

The funny thing was I got it perfectly right the first time. lol!

Time to steal my elbow and kneepads back off the youngster. Sticking out tongue

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