We’re always looking for more people to step up and help with maintenance, fundraising, and leadership of the park.īiggest hurdle in making this project come to fruition? The Bijou Bike Park started as an idea that has since gained huge community support. This group of skilled riders and builders have become our pro-builder volunteers and includes Cory Dicks, Matt Stuck, Kris Morehead, and Adam Leman. Presentations and vocal community support to South Lake Tahoe City Council showed City officials how important this project is to the community.ĭuring construction a select group of volunteers emerged with ties to TAMBA and other areas where big jumps and features have been built (“Pig Trails” and Pinenuts). In the spring of 2015, the City hired Alex Fowler from Elite Trax USA to lead the construction, working along with the City’s road crew and equipment. Without the support and direction from City Manager Nancy Kerry and Jim Marino in Public Works, the Bijou Bike Park never would have been built. The City of South Lake Tahoe including City Staff and City Council made this idea a reality. Jason Toutolmin took over the BMX track operations shortly after in 2012 and became a supporter and involved with the BMX track design. Ben Fish is a registered landscape architect and volunteered all his time putting together presentations, design plans, permitting drawings, and cost estimates through his company, Design Workshop at a cost saving of about $100,000. Garrett Villanueva lent his expertise in trails, engineering, partnerships and volunteer agreements and wrote the operations and maintenance plan for the bike park. We had a small group of people pushing the project forward from then on and meeting with City staff on a regular basis over the years. Lauren and John Thomaselli were the BMX track operators at the time and we included the BMX track in the bike park plans because the existing track site was located on school land has always been temporary.
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A few of us met with City of South Lake Tahoe staff to propose the idea and were given a green light to move forward drawing up plans on a 5 acre piece of land within Bijou Park to test the idea.īen Fish drew up the first sketch of the bike park one night in 2011 and made a project board with a series of bullet points talking about what a bike park is and what the benefits are, this circulated around for years and was revised many times with updates to the design. The Bijou Bike Park started as an idea in early 2011 when we were getting TAMBA (Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association) back together, at the same time a group in Truckee was also proposing a bike park there so we started trading notes with them. Behind the Dirt: The story of the Bijou Bike Park from First Tracks Productions on Vimeo.
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