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Remolition take a closer look at RTH’ SuperX

admin — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:28:08 +0000

XBP Ride the Hill is one of those busy mountainboard centres near London which help a lot of people get into mountainboarding. Last winter they spent a lot of time and effort doing some major earthworks to create loads of new features. Those are now riding great and more work is planned for this winter. The centre will be open all winter and should it snow – will no doubt become south london’s top ski slope. Read more at Remolition Extra.

Remolition take a closer look at RTH’ SuperX originally posted on MBS Mountainboards Europe

Surf the Turf

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:17:48 +0000

We have over the years been involved with loads of different mountainboard centres. Some are bigger than others, and get to host lots of events and we hear a lot more about them. There are some really good centres which do not get as much attention. One of these is Surf the Turf. They are based up in the Lake District, which as everyone knows is a beautiful area of the country and very hilly. John Garfitt has just published a nice report with some pictures courtesy of Paul Crilley on Remolition from his recent trip up there called: Surfing some lakeland turf.

The MBS Team also took a trip up there earlier this year and shot this video:

Surf the Turf originally posted on MBS Mountainboards Europe

Building Winterberg Mountainboard Centre

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:45:44 +0000

Winterberg was a big project. We had been in discussions for months and site visits had been made. The time had come for AJ Watkins, our top park builder, responsible for many of the UK’s mountainboard centres, and Tom Kirkman, former World Freestyle Champion, to head out to Germany and start the building work.

Winterberg is based near Dortmund in Germany and operates as a ski and snowboard resort in the winter and run an excellent bike park in the summer. They wanted to make more out of their park in the summer, and mountainboarding was a perfect match.

They cleared some trees to make some space for an epic boarder cross track. After a week in a digger, and a whole lot of tracking in with a quad, raking and stone picking the track was complete. This track is about a kilometre in length and very fast. Very conveniently it ends right next to the lift access. Very few UK centres enjoy lifts like this. Tom Kirkman was there to test it out and make sure the track was running well.

On top of this a beginners area and a freestyle area were built. A lot of the park is designed so it can be used in winter too. Hence the freestyle area is raised quite high, in order to cater for a nice layer of snow.

Without a doubt Winterberg is now one of the best mountainboard centres in the world. Tom and AJ trained up a group of locals into instructors, and we sent them a full fleet of MBS mountain boards. Very soon the park will open to the public and we know people will travel from all over Europe to ride there.

See more photos of AJ and Tom building Winterberg mountainboard park.

Building Winterberg Mountainboard Centre originally posted on MBS Mountainboards Europe