Atlanta Cyling Festival 2016 - Pump Track / Opening Party Action

Atlanta Cycling Festival - The Big Opening Party happened this past weekend. Fun times! The event was at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, on the top two floors of the parking deck. BONUS: You didn't have to ride your bike up all 6 decks, you were able to come up with your bike in the elevators. That was a nice touch because it was HOT out.

Once on the top floors, you could scoot around and check out lots of biking related vendors, and also grab some beers which were included with your admission. What I was really excited about though, was the REI  portable pumptrack.

It was a Shoretrax wooden slat board system which is able to be set up in a different configuration each time. I had never ridden a Shoretrax system before. Lots of fun was had. My buddy Mershon rode it on his new 700c, while I used my 27.5 Kona Blast. I pumped up the tires and locked out the fork for maximum pumpability, which worked out pretty well.

The pump track was very popular and lots of people tried it on all kinds of bikes. A few people didn't make it through the whole way the first time, and some even had some small bails, but I am pretty sure everyone who gave it a try eventually cleared the whole course.

Overall I am glad I went to check it out, and I'm glad I got to support ACF. I heard that they are going to have the pump track at the closing party so I may have to hit it again.


Mershon gettin' it on the MBike


Regular Cyclist using the berm as a launch device.


Manual off the final berm yes yes