Underground MTB racing... where would you ride?

[maestro8]

I just saw a cool video of a Red Bull MTB "slalom" race through some subway tunnels in Mexico City. link (http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=1cce73c3fe48c449e5a08cc3aaf9498a4d83693c&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-L3-Oddly+Enough+NewsNews-6)

It made me think, if the world were our playground, where would we ride? Sports stadiums? Shopping malls? Car dealerships? Imagine riding a trials course comprised of brand new cars :)

If nothing was off-limits, where would you ride?

[maximus unius]

Definitely contruction sites. Sencond would be have to be a car dealership. That sounds like alot of fun!

[john_childs]

An underground mine would be fun just for the experience. The lighting, the terrain, the tunnel walls and ceiling. Twould be an experience.

Red Bull Challenge in a Goldmine (http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Red-bull-Challenge-Goldmine.html)

Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=357j9XoEXn4)

[markf]

malls would be cool for street and freestyle. for muni i think i'd just ride all the cool places we already ride.

[vuniw]

i know this is really bad but at a place with a lot of monuments like gettysburg pennsylvania

[Jerrick]

Disneyland.

Or something like it, with so many different rides you can do trials on an aztec temple, muni in a forest, street through the mall section, cars and tons of other stuff. It would be amazing. =p

[tobbogonist]

i would go to the moon. imagine the air time

[max_pfeifer]

I just saw a cool video of a Red Bull MTB "slalom" race through some subway tunnels in Mexico City. link (http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=1cce73c3fe48c449e5a08cc3aaf9498a4d83693c&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-L3-Oddly+Enough+NewsNews-6)



Hehe only in mexico...

where i live there are heaps of government buildings with awesome handrails. the problem is there are always security guards and cops standing around meaning i cant try any of them. it would be cool if i could so yeah i think that's where i would ride.

[tobbogonist]

Max when i come a visiting we shall stealth them out, create a diversion and proceed to "rip it up"

[Jerrick]

Max when i come a visiting we shall stealth them out, create a diversion and proceed to "rip it up"

I am doing that with a government building this week. =p

[Borgschulze]

I've wanted to ride my bike down an up escallator for the longest time.

[tobbogonist]

Government buildings are great fun. i was riding around out the front of our local court, missusing their steps, and a policman came out and asked for a photo.

we are very minimum security.
as for escallators(sp?) we just had one installed in the plaza where i work, i rode down it a few times and tried to idil on a step all the way back up it. i am now kicked out of the plaza and have to 'syphon filter' into work every weekend

[dan de man]

Marianis trench (ooohh Yeahh)

[john_childs]

Marianis trench (ooohh Yeahh)
The band? (http://www.marianastrench.net/)

[tomtrevor]

i would ride everywhere. shopping malls would be pretty good! i like riding in the bush/forrest the most though which is where i usually ride anyway. i would also like to ride down a volcano!

[domesticated ape]

Love the subway and goldmine videos, here's another one through the streets of Lisbon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTDpF87XOos).

Ithink shopping malls would be great for trials, street and freestyle, also churches and cathedrals! Schools would be good too, at the schools I went to there were stair sets and ledges all over the place.

[kington99]

Last year Red Bull sponsored a similar race through the streets a town in mexico, similar to the one above but with larger drops and at one point passing through someone's house. Could never find any decent videos of it though.

[koebwil]

The white house, and probably some other schools. I already rode the Wisconsin State Capitol.

[maximus unius]

I live riight outside of DC, and i tell you there are cops EVERYWHERE! They would have in handcuffs even though im only 12 if i even THOUGHT about riding the momuments and gov. buildings.

[ntappin]

There is a mall here that you can actualy ride in. Late at night the Rideau Center is still open but no one is in there, and I rarely see security, they had a nice 6 set that I did, but that was before I was able to do much, still I think malls are better places for freestyle.

I don't really know where I would want to ride if I were given the chance to ride anywhere.

[johnfoss]

I live riight outside of DC, and i tell you there are cops EVERYWHERE! They would have in handcuffs even though im only 12 if i even THOUGHT about riding the momuments and gov. buildings.
Good! Monuments and government buildings are not designed or built to hold up to grinds and other wear & tear from unicycle, bikes, skateboards, etc. That's why you're not supposed to do it there.

But this thread is more about fantasizing. So I'll offer up this one:
A china shop.

I actually got paid to ride my Schwinn Giraffe all through Bloomingdales in NYC once upon a time. It was very fun riding between glass cases in the jewelry department, for example. I had the scowls of the people behind the counters, but the permission to be there! And of course the responsiblity not do cause any damage, even though no-one had ever though of grinding rails back in 1987 or so, when this was.

My favorite response so far: Disneyland!

[maximus unius]

Good! Monuments and government buildings are not designed or built to hold up to grinds and other wear & tear from unicycle, bikes, skateboards, etc. That's why you're not supposed to do it there.


Of course. I wouldnt ride the monuments, but it would be fun. Almost all the places have little ridge things that bolt onto the stone (what are those called?)to stop skateboarders and stuff anyway. Im just saying that it would be cool to ride there, cause ive seen some AWESOME lines in DC.

[kington99]

Good! Monuments and government buildings are not designed or built to hold up to grinds and other wear & tear from unicycle, bikes, skateboards, etc. That's why you're not supposed to do it there.


Surely that applies the same to non-government buildings? By that logic skateparks would be the only ok places to ride trials or street, as they're the only areas deisgned for this use, and if people were restricted to these areas i doubt either of these branches of unicycling would ever have taken off. You just have to use common sense about what you ride on.

[Tim Morin]

A really big ski hill, so that I could ride down, and then hop on the lift to get back to the top. It would be cool to have half the hill covered in groomed snow, and the other without snow.

[maximus unius]

Surely that applies the same to non-government buildings? By that logic skateparks would be the only ok places to ride trials or street, as they're the only areas deisgned for this use, and if people were restricted to these areas i doubt either of these branches of unicycling would ever have taken off. You just have to use common sense about what you ride on.

Haha, I even got kicked out of the skate park. I had been riding for like and hour and a half, and the guy comes up to me and says, "you cant ride that here". Anyway i was really pissed cause that is the only skate park within 50 miles of my house, and its a really goodone.

[kington99]

Haha, I even got kicked out of the skate park. I had been riding for like and hour and a half, and the guy comes up to me and says, "you cant ride that here". Anyway i was really pissed cause that is the only skate park within 50 miles of my house, and its a really goodone.

Exactly.

[koebwil]

Good! Monuments and government buildings are not designed or built to hold up to grinds and other wear & tear from unicycle, bikes, skateboards, etc. That's why you're not supposed to do it there.
No, that's why you ride for five minutes then ditch. If I didn't ride street there would be nothing to ride anywhere near me. Fortunately I do so I get to ride my campus, the lake front, and anywhere else in my town that I please, and no one bothers me.