Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
BMX is generally thought of as an able bodied person’s sport. But thanks to an £8,374 grant from the Big Lottery’s Awards For All scheme, a pioneering BMX track and practice area has been built to accommodate riders with special needs.
Based at Ravenscliffe High School and Sports College (Halifax, UK) the new track is the brainchild of Graham Wiles, Project Manager of the ABLE Project’s “BMX Highriders” programme, which is aimed at creating a safe, challenging BMX club and practice areas for young people with special needs.
Working half a day per week for twelve weeks, ABLE Project volunteers were able to craft an adapted track based on “The Fix”, a pump track built in Boulder, Colorado by Lee McCormack, author of “Welcome to Pump Track Nation”.
The scaled-down track is specifically designed with less severe learning difficulties in mind, making it possible for students to bring their own Hoffman BMX or Ruption BMX bikes to the site for supervised, safe, instructional practice. The school also retains a collection of its own BMX bikes for student use.
The aim of the “BMX Highriders” scheme is to allow young people with disabilities the opportunity for new experiences and practise within a safe space. The current BMX bikes provided by the site are only suitable for those with less severe disabilities. However, the ultimate aim of the ABLE Project’s work at Ravenscliffe (and its new site in North Kirklees) is to adapt BMX bikes and terrain for more widespread disabled use.
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Sunday, March 27th, 2011
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