Now Playing: Built To Spill The Plan
If you're ever feeling oppressed for being a lowly bike rider, just know that it could always be worse. Built to Spill is playing tonight in Detroit and Hatfield and his crew went to see them. I really dig this band and would have loved to have seen them play, but I just couldn't. I wanted to see my family tonight and I have work stuff early in the AM. I did ride Modern for an hour and it was fun. I also rode the new public park in Holt, Michigan this morning for a bit. This may be the most dangerous park I've ever been to. Don't get me wrong, it is a good park and it was fun with lots of obstacles, big boxes, subs, weird rails and nice quarters. Some of the layout was kind of funky. For example, it was hard to get speed for the boxes. The sketchy parts were all the sharp metal edges and super narrow ramps and a full staircase off the deck of the mini and man, a bunch of stuff. I can't imagine how many little beginner kids have been hurt at the place by rolling off the side of ramps or falling off the decks or cutting themselves on the edges of the boxes. They are the same pre-fab ramps as the Wyandotte park, but at least there the design of the park makes more sense. I had a good time riding it and if it were closer I would ride it all the time, it's real good, just super sketchy. I know there were some photos of it on Veteran BMX but I couldn't find them just now. I need some pix. Anyone reading this, feel free to send photos over....
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