It’s a tale as old as time – well, 1999, in fact, when the modern bike park was born in Whistler, British Columbia. You turn up, uplift pass in hand, looking forward to some uninterrupted shredding, only to get a bit overexcited at the prospect of sending jumps and schralping turns. Before you know it, you’ve exceeded your limits, made a silly mistake, and you spend the rest of the day (or worse, week) on the sidelines with a mechanical or, worst-case scenario, in hospital. But it doesn’t have to be this way. While it’s all too easy to end up in this kind of situation, there are some simple things you can do to minimise the risks – aided by safety measures put in place by parks themselves. We…
