This Disease Kills Bike Parks 🪦 Why Revs Closed

[@bikeradar]

What's your favourite bike park?

[@nomadcarpenter8549]

1:Revs 2:dyfi 3:stiniog But I live in North Wales, so I'm a little biased

[@RatluBoogerbag]

Portes du Soleil is the only correct answer.

[@alexisonbike3652]

Mont St-Anne

[@nakitojimo2001]

Sawiyah in Majalengka city, West Java (Indonesia)

[@Coolcmsc]

Revs, Dyfi, Queenstown/Rotorua But, frankly lads, thanks for making this old man very happy #revs4evs ❤

[@that_bald_bloke]

Sad times for Revs😢. A great edit that features growing environmental topics affecting the UK scene!

[@willsoffe]

Thanks! We loved making it: Both riding the park and meeting the people behind it. Hopefully we will be back there soon…

[@Coolcmsc]

Thanks for making this old man very happy #revs4evs ❤ I’ll just have to keep going for 4 more years - into my 70’s🎉🎉🎉

[@nicolasclement7946]

Legends. Come back stronger. The influence you guys had worldwide is undeniable. I mean how many videos on the web showing riding going wild on Rev's or 50to01 line?

[@bikeradar]

Many, many Nicolas! They had the vision (pardon the pun) to build wild lines and host big contests, undoubtedly helping push the scene forward. ~ Will

[@Bonky-wonky]

I’ve been riding well over twenty years, everything from bmx to dh. When people ask me what’s the best trail I’ve ever ridden it’s a tricky one as I can’t choose between Revit and the Ghetto track… amazing place ran by amazing people who will no doubt come out better. Can’t wait to see what they will come up with when given a blank canvas. Might even be better than Revit🙃

[@elononoras1902]

I mean... Ive seen forest being cleared for reasons. Their machinery is crazy heavy, but usually they avoid driving even on single tracks. They make their own paths, cause they attempt as shot distances as possible. So what I mean, I don't know how much it's intertwined , but IMHO there won't more than 20% of damaged trails. And it still ended in kinda positive note - rebuild even better.

[@dank3823]

Bummer to hear about any park closing but i have a feeling it'll be back better. Ive seen many disappear and never come back here in the US.

[@bee_whisper]

Fungal blight can be really hard to control especially in areas with an abundance of one or two species of trees ... Hope they manage to sort it out, maybe planting other tree species might help although planting other tree species might look a bit crap for a few years

[@monsterdonltd]

Such a loss to the community having to close down. Excellent video 👏

[@willsoffe]

Thank you! And thanks for letting us use some of your excellent footage 👊

[@monsterdonltd]

@@willsoffe happy to help out 🙌

[@paulmurden7621]

This is a massive blow but I hope like a Phoenix from the flames they come back and them and the riders are flying high again soon.

[@willsoffe]

Here here! They’re super committed (as you can hear in the video) so I’m sure they’re already working towards getting the park open and riders flying over Fifty and Vision again soon…

[@redbomberr4594]

I'm a builder, I feel your loss. I hope, with all my heart that you can turn this crap into cream

[@philboynz]

You should come see how we do it at the redwoods in Rotorua. It's a working forest that's always being harvested 👍

[@willsoffe]

We would love too! Always wanted to visit since I saw Sam Hill win Worlds there in 2006.

[@janeblogs324]

The UK cut down 40% of their forests to make bombs in wwii

[@aaronburela432]

Damn that's really sad 😭

[@Mythix2]

my man got a built in face warmer

[@bikeradar]

🫡👨🏻 Good job too, it was -3 degrees celcius when we were filming. Poor Max’s drone died. ~ Will

[@deividas_kimontas]

So sad for us mountain bikers! 😐

[@nicklowe536]

So sorry for everyone at revs hope it is a short break for you all

[@bikeradar]

As you can see from the vid, they have big plans and the tenacity to keep working and see it through. Meeting them and hearing what they had to say I’m super-confident that they will keep working until the park is back bigger and better than ever! ~ Will

[@LevoSteve-O]

My local and favorite bike park (Little Switz in Wisconsin) just made made the announcement yesterday that they are permanently closing. Due to the increase in insurance costs they deemed it was no longer financially feasible to continue operation. Unfortunately, I could see this becoming a more common issue.

[@timwatterson8060]

I really hope they get a 3d scan of the park done before they start chopping trees

[@KTMSparky]

Further north NRW are felling everything, absolutely gutted it will all be gone in 5 years.

[@outthereindustries7413]

Rotorua, Whakarewarewa Forest has trees planted around the trail.

[@jevanskickstandcrew8373]

I bought my first fullsus and my freinds brought me to Revs from Ireland, I hadn't even gone TUBLESS. What a blast, don't know how I didn't kill myself 😂

[@maestri240z]

What's happening with the timber? I'll take some of it :D Price of timber nowadays!

[@Limestream73]

Nooooooo!

[@ArronCrofts_89]

This is not the first time that revs has closed its doors because of this problem… I’m sure somebody else can remember when they closed last time..

[@W1DO]

Hopefully the trees can be removed without clearfelling. Shame the way $1m+ worth sweet trails were wasted at christchurch adventure park to get a few hundred grand worth of timber out.

[@MloVisual]

man im so confused 5:18

[@darrencooper5855]

Dyfi for sure.

[@ehywa9799]

🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍🤙🤙🤙👍👍👍👍

[@Cl1ddy]

dont fell the trees, wait for the summer fires 😉😉

[@soupbums]

What about tubes left on the trail with specialized box littered thru out the trail

[@PiotrRorot]

The real disease is someone thinking that the forest needs to be cut to the ground, so it is saved xD If you think that a forst is a clear cut, and then planting a new one within 5 years and then waiting another 50 years so it looks somewhat like it used to after we die xD Yeah, clearcut is a greatest idea ever xD

[@artgreen6915]

No, it isn't a natural forest. It's a commercial planting in straight line rows of a single non-native species. Mostly planted at the same time, so similar age and presumably originally intended to be harvested in large blocks. 20th century thinking if you ask me. There could be a more natural forest there, but that's not what they've got at the moment.

[@PiotrRorot]

@@artgreen6915 better that, than no forest at all, especially that replanting does cost as well and they might not do it, but ecen if, yeah, its lost decades, imho .

[@artgreen6915]

@@PiotrRorot I suggest perhaps you might want to research Phytophthora ramorum so you better understand what people are dealing with. There is no known treatment of it, and it threatens to devastate forests of certain tree species. Better if they hadn't made such simple plantings in the first place, but that ship already sailed and I'm guessing decades before the bike park started. Dealing with the situation existing across Britain, Ireland, and N America, would you rather: a) leave it and wait until lots of trees are infected so far more trees are producing infectious spores and the disease spreads to other areas quicker. Meanwhile the timber is spoiled so when you cut down all the dead trees you can't even use it, or b) take the timber harvest, yes in more of a rush than originally planned but at least a good proportion of the timber might be usable, and you slow down the spread, because the whole forest isn't laden with spores. Then replant with a mix of trees that'll age at different rates with a more complex ecosystem that probably won't be so vulnerable in future?

[@PiotrRorot]

@@artgreen6915 healing forest by cutting it down is not really a treatment lol. Fine, lets cut 1/4 of it and hope for the best, then cut another 1/4 with best treatment hopes and then the rest. I have seen it countless times. That's not a treatment. If you plan to cut it all down and make money out of it while possible, then i don't see how treatment is the priotity there, lol. What is more important? Making money from lumber or having trail within trees? And really, the infected wood is so spoiled that you can't mill it to do wooden features? It's their bike park. If they take priority of making money over having trees even if most will die within 10 years, so be it. Their choice. If they are not planting trees now and later on as a real priority, still their choice. But dont describe it as treatment.

[@foylad4862]

I wonder if it's anything to do with climate engineering. Trees are dying and being cut down, left right and centre.

[@daveyboy7305]

As in chemtrails ? If so , I am here sifting through the comments until I found one lol

[@foylad4862]

@@daveyboy7305 haha, just a thought 😂 best not to let your ego control your mind. As we have already witnessed, truth can be unbelievable. Do you not find it strange how all of a sudden a vast number of trees are dying and being felled. The same trees that survived the industrial revolution.

[@huckfin1598]

Leave it to the British government to come up with the dumbest solution

[@artgreen6915]

Why's it dumb? It's a single species block of non-native trees in rows. Very vulnerable to disease like that. What would be dumb is if they don't have a rule stopping planting like that nowadays. When 'forests' like this were planted in the UK, they likely weren't thinking in terms of modern ecological understanding. It was just 'this tree species would cope with that soil, outlook and conditions, the timber has decent commercial value. Right, big block of that in rows to make it easy to plant and easy to harvest when the time comes.' Hopefully modern forestry management would be more subtle and sophisticated.... though I'm not certain about it.

[@BigRed-MWA]

Why the hell do they need to close the tracks??? 🤔 Drop the affected tree's and replant with different species of trees??? 🌲🌳🌴🌳👍