On August 18, 2009 The Town of Mammoth Lakes, California officially shut down bikes at the Volcom Brothers Skatepark. According to the press release:
The decision was made after extensive consultation with the Town’s insurance authority regarding options to consider for potential joint use by skaters and bikers. Throughout the consultation it became apparent there were no valid options to pursue for joint use. Mammoth Lakes Police Department will continue its random patrol of the park to ensure existing rules and ordinances are being followed by the users of the park.
According to the Mammoth Times after a short trial period “it became apparent to the town’s Tourism and Recreation Department that mixed use wasn’t a viable solution in this particular park.”
Can’t even pretend to say we’re bummed, those pegs just rip stuff up.
[Link: Visit Mammoth Lakes via Examiner.com and Mammoth Times]
Now If they can just ban little kids and assholes we’ll be set!
Spend lots of dough on pool coping only to have some kook do a peg plant and chunk it up.
aside from the insurance cost, how about the maintenance cost to repair all the carnage bikes cause.
smart move. Why would you want to shred that park on a bike anyway. When you can have 16″ of travel and go 55 mph down the mountain.
If you kick out all the assholes there won’t be a place for under the lip slash grinds and public PBR consumption.
No pegs, plastic pedals: no problem.
No helmets, being drunk around little kids, bad attitude: problem
In reply to “Zimmerman”: What is “under the lip slash grinds”? If you are grinding then by definition you are hiting the coping……your statement is meaningless and weird. Maybe you are trying to say you don’t like frontside slash grinds I guess. Not everything has to be a stand up grind. Watch Chris May rip a gnarly frontside grind and tell me thats not rad. No pegs and bikes are still a problem. How hard would it be to enforce a no pegs policy any way? This is why washington street has a large fence around it. I can’t believe I am talking about skateboarding on the internet. Im gonna go beat myself up.
My bad, that should have read, “Under the lip slashes.” I mean, the bitter drunk anti-bike guys don’t actually grind anything anyway. Leave the coping to them and it’ll be pristine forever!
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