5ft Kicker (action pics page 4)

[Jared101]

Well after weeks slowly building it. We have finally finished making our 5ft kicker, ready for a dam jump sesh soon as the weather is already getting hot. We still got to put some grip stuff on it so we dont slip but otherwise from that, its pretty much finished... i'll Post some action pics sooner or later....

[Jordy]

hmmm i recon your gunna need some diagonal braces and something to stop it tipping over..but other then that it looks mad as !

[Jared101]

oh yeh we are going to tie some rope from the top and like yeh brace it like that,,,,,and we have holes to put pegs through, on the base.

[Fraz]

that looks like fun. how did you get the curve for that ramp? i am wanting to make a kicker like that myself.

[johnny]

Nice kicker, does have quite a bump just as you're hitting it though!

[Jared101]

frasa,,, just drew circles on the ground with different radiuses and just took a section out of the circle that we liked lol and shaped a piece of steel to that shape. oh yeh that bump will be like covered with a bit of dirt so yeh.

[Roly]

please tell me ur not gonna huck that to flat... :(

[wooley_89]

please tell me ur not gonna huck that to flat... :(

i think thats fairly well covered right here...

ready for a dam jump sesh soon as the weather is already getting hot.

lol.

thats a rad kicker, it should be awesome to jump

[Jared101]

haha nah man its goin to be our dam jump, too scared to hit it on dry land yet.

[bulllet]

Nie work mate, did you guys weld the frame up and everything yourselves? If so saweeeet.

Its good to see good quality stuf like that;) Make sure you cover that bump up aswell:P

Again nice work, have fun on it

[Jared101]

i wish, i did them all myself. I welded up a couple but because the steel is like quite thin and we had a old skool welder, i let the qualified welder do most, lol ha. but overall for 34 bucks, for the whole lot was good, good to have good friends.

[Mr jesus]

man that thing is knarly, u guys trying to get to the moon or sumtin? lolz gr8 to see some tough yet still good looking ramps out there. Love to see some action shots,

have fun

[Constable Care]

Thats Hucktastic!

[Speedy]

Thats beautiful mate I would be so proud to have somethiing like that in my back yard, the first run is gonna be a mother of a huck :D whats bikes are you gonna jump into a damn on?

[Jared101]

yeh first run is going to be crazy, scary haha. Umm using some old skool repco bike.

[Speedy]

old skool repco bike sounds good i would wanna ride that sasquatch(??) leaning on the ramp into a dam. ive got a whole river to jump it onto down my way bring it on down, you could stick it at the top of this safe as a diving board 14m cliff that we jump off, that would be sweet :D

[Jared101]

14m plus how ever high we get off this kicker. Thats crazy ha. That would be sick to have a river in your backyard better then our dodgy dam,,, full of allsorts of crap

[Speedy]

Yeah its fair sweet it aint exactly on the back yard but it aint far at all, im gonna ride a bike off there these holidays if its warm enought but there isnt enough of a space for a run up its too rocky a couple of barrows of dirt should do the trick.

Hurry up and jump off the kicker man I want to hear what its like and how it looks on camera Lol :D

[Jared101]

haha yeh man im getting there, all we need to do is put this grip stuff on it and it will be a go.

[Speedy]

A Mr Burns "Excelent"

[purpleclassic]

that is a sick ramp. i wish i could build up one that good. the one we have at my jumps is made of would and is a bit dodgy. that one looks very strong and sturdy. a job well done. would love to hit it one day.

[Speedy]

Yeah where are you at everyone should come rouynd one day and test it out :)

[Jared101]

lol yeh that would be mad,,,,,i live at beaudesert, 50mins south of brisbane, 40min west of gold coast, in the middle of nowhere. lol

[Speedy]

Well Schoolies is soon(ish) so how long do u reckon by pushbike?

[Jared101]

awhile probly speedy lol.....Next Monday looks like the first jump day, im scared haha,,,,,so should have some shots of us jumpin soon

[Deniss]

I WOULD PUT SOME GRIP TAPE ON THAT OR IT's GUNNA HURT!

[Jared101]

oh yeh man thats wat i did this arvo,,,put strips of grip tape like stuff every couple of centimetres,,bit of slippage if we didnt have that on it.

[Speedy]

Sweet I cant wait to see these pics :p good luck is all i can say really, have fun and hope your bike doesnt break(how deep is the dam?) when you land mine did today im in pain.

[Jared101]

3 more days and we will be hittin this thing,,,,been down today at the dam clearin all the lilly pads and run up,,,,took a few pics,, first one is off were the kicker will be placed and the other the run up to it, going to be fast, still have more track behind me. hope we get some distance of this thing gotta at least make like 2m to get into deep enough water.

[Speedy]

Hey thats one sweet dam i love it good luck n have fun :p

[Yunderover]

man that's cool. Wish i was as good with steel as you cant wait to see some pics of this (if any) or a video.

[Jared101]

well finnally hit it up this arvo,,,,scary as the first time,,,got launched so high,,,got some pics put there arent that great as the light wasnt good and we were only bailin today just to get the feel of the jump as we didnt have much time,,,,,good fun

[sxereturn]

A few recommendations...

Wear shoes! That has to hurt your feet something chronic.

And number two...never ever bail! If you come down on top of that bike, you're in for a world of hurt.

[johnny]

That looks like sooo much fun!

[Jared101]

arh bare feet arent to bad,,,nice plastic pedals lol. Hey yeh must agree with u with no bailing, ive clipped the bike a few times with my leg it does hurt a bit couldnt imagine landin on it,,,,ill try hold on i think

[Rik]

hope we get some distance of this thingHah, only a little bit of distance... :D
Good stuff, that looks stupidly fun.

[Jared101]

vid of mate jumpin

http://www.eengoedidee.nl/videoz/mountainbike/nathan_axed.mov

[DJ_Robbie]

Something to work up to...

A few mates and myself last summer...

[Jared101]

omg i wish..... oh how good is that, kills ours easy omg!!!,,,,in that 2nd pic that guy is gettin launched!!!,,,,i wish i made mine like that haha not so steep.
That is Awesome! nice man

How fast must u's be going to get that big?

[testiclehead]

thats a sweet looking kicker m8. i used to build big kickers and stuf like that out of ply wood. those pics look tops!
Dan.

[hardinge915]

Something to work up to...

A few mates and myself last summer...
holy crap, that shits INSANE.. now i need to find a dam :D

[Speedy]

Farkin awesome mate.... :D

[norco norri]

that looks so much fun jumpin into the dam its sik

[hardtailer]

wow, that it good stuff, now i cant wait to hit my kicker that im building... can only hope to get that much hight...lol thats insane...


good luck when you decide to go on dry land

[SoniX]

Huck to flat!!!!!!!!


dude that air is insane in both of your pics. farken hell bro.

now u got me wanting to do it

[HYOSHIMO]

how you get the bikes to float? normally tyres wasnt enough on bmx so mtb wouldnt be any better would it? i suggest bottles tied and taped to the frame...

[DJ_Robbie]

thats what we did with our bike, check the photos, theres a bottle around the top tube, and from memory one on the bars too, 2 2L bottles are enough to keep it afloat, with that much hangtime the force that goes through the bike when landing ripped the bottles off one bike, bye bye bike. 20ft down haha.

[Speedy]

Yeah what happened to the bike after it landed? I'm planning to jump off a cliff into water and my biggest concern is how to get the bike back as it is insanely deep water, we have never been able to reach the bottom no matter how we try to do it :rolleyes:

[wombat]

how you get the bikes to float? normally tyres wasnt enough on bmx so mtb wouldnt be any better would it? i suggest bottles tied and taped to the frame...
I seem to recall seeing a pic in an old BMX mag where the guys had kiddies floaties (the ring type ones that go around your arms) around the seat tube and around the bars inside the grips. I don't know how much flotation they'd provide, but they shouldn't come off.

[mitch_dmr]

Get some tubes and stuff them in your spokes of your front and rear wheel. pump them up so they are not sticking out of the spokes too far. And wallah your bike stays afloat with no milk bottles in your way.

[DWNHLR01]

Those second lot of pictures are insane :| I wanna give it a go!!

[dirt boy]

how da fuck did you build that???...????!
well good job break a leg on it make sure you film it

[Speedy]

Sweet idea with the tubes round the seat post and tyres etc, thats my one of my two problems solved the other is that we have to make a run up as it is rocky and I need to get up my speed :D

[demo man]

use a 20" or 24" tube though, a 26" will stick out a bit much (i think)

fucking juddas guys, those guys are getting some seriosus air time there, great to see.


fucking crazy bastards!

[freeride_this]

wow thats awesome.. but you'll get mad air off of that.. maybe even make it into a trainee instrad of dam.
:D

[Jacko Wacko]

Something to work up to...

A few mates and myself last summer...

fark that ramp is huge! i say you order two big truck loads of dirt, hire a bob cat for the day, shape a big down ramp and hit it with the ramp!

[Mr.Speed]

farkin great work guys,

that is an awesome ramp,

u guys air getting some seriously extreme air there.

how long did it take u to build that awesome ramp.

im looking forward to some more pics,

keep goin ;) :D