Strawberry Hill Bike Park build is underway
The guys from Shire Built construction were on the scene just a few hours, and already the contours of Strawberry Hill Bike Park were taking shape.
The first jump, fashioned from a scavenged boulder mounded over with dirt. The first of countless berms, the banked, earthen curves that will propel riders through progressive “racing lines” around the course. The first 30 or 40 yards of the mile and half of chute-like trails that soon will serpentine down and around the wooded hillside.
“You’ve already gone from there to there?” an onlooker asked.
Shire Built trail builder Spencer Baldwin shrugged off the fast start.
“No time wasted.”
“With a coffee break,” added builder Scott Scamehorn. “Heck yeah!”
Heck yeah, indeed. Long sought by local riders, the island’s first-ever dedicated bike park is under construction at Strawberry Hill. A summer opening is […]