PROPOSED CIVIC SCHEME
Dromana - Victoria - Australia
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai Lama
Encouraging kids & adults to be active has long known to have positive benefits both physically and emotionally. Providing a safe and stimulating cycling environment will help inspire users' personal and social development.
Together with RTSG Neuroscientists, Specialized launched a groundbreaking study that analyzed the effects riding had on school children dealing with ADHD symptoms. The results were, in short, awesome. Kids in the study showed improved attention, more “normal” neuroelectric brain activity post-ride, better overall mood, and reduced BMI and waist size. Many of these positive aspects were noticeable even after just one ride and the program demonstrated an 87% retention rate with kids.
“The findings also indicated there may be factors more unique to cycling that make it especially effective when it comes to the brain benefits of exercise. Factors like maintaining balance, being outdoors, riding in groups and the rhythmic motion of pedaling we theorize may have contributed to our findings being so profound”
-Dr. Lindsay Thornton, Lead researcher and Sports Psychologist
MOUNTAIN BIKE PARKS
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Bikeparks provide visitors with a wide range of mountain bike experiences in a safe and controlled environment. Riders of all skill levels can enjoy family safe trails or push their level on the more advanced trails with obstacles and challenges. Jump arenas, skills areas and parallel racing loops ensure everyone has fun.
WORLD CLASS BIKE PARKS
"They are just a way for the community to create a place where kids and adults who still feel like kids can get out and do what we have done all along—have fun, embrace gravity and speed, and forget the complexities of life."
DOUG SCHNITZSPAHN -Editor Elevation Outdoor Magazine
BIKE PARK WALES - UNITED KINGDOM
“What we have created is a truly first of a kind facility that will undoubtedly bring considerable tourism benefits to the local area. The number of riders we have welcomed through the doors over the last five months has been much more than we could have anticipated.”
“Providing high quality experiences for cyclists of all abilities like those on offer at BikePark Wales will support the growth of a cycling culture which we aim for in Wales."
Mr Griffiths
Minister of Culture and Sport, John Griffiths AM.
“The whole idea of a purpose-built facility is allowing people to progress their skills. This makes a huge difference in opening the mountain bike experience to groups of people who have never really felt connected to it before.” —Mark Eller, communications director, International Mountain Bicycling Association.
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REFERENCE PROJECT
THE BIKE PARK at BIG MARSH- CHIGAGO - USA
Regenerative & Sustainable Landscape Project
