Bike Damage

Photos taken Dec. '03. Notice the deep gouges.

The harden steel pegs chip away at the coping, this is the same gouge as on the left, only a better photo. (photo by Brock 2/11/04)

Skateboards cannot make these kinds of holes, only bikes can. Damage occurs when certain peg or sprocket grinding or stalling tricks are done.

The harden steel pegs chip away at the coping. More gouges.

This particular chunk is in the deep end at Sumner. Brock actually saw the biker chunk it out, and took this photo. He says that the bike peg hit the coping as the rider was bailing his trick. Chunk fell to the bottom with the bike.

This is a photo taken at the Skatepark in Trinadad Colorado. Seth of Austin took the photo. He says that this damage is from bikes, when the bail, they throw their bikes down, and the pegs and handlebars hit the tranny or curved surface of the bowl, and it gets chipped out. This kind of damage wouldn't bother bikes, with their large wheels. But skateboarders have 60 mm wheels, and these are like pot holes in an otherwise smooth street, and could bump a skater off his board.

The Spokane Skatepark just opened, and I noticed bikes were allowed. And already there were gouges along the coping. I took this photo, as a biker was grinding away the concrete, and concrete dust was flying. Each time I go back, I'll snap a photo of how much damage is done by bikers at this park. Seems quite significant in just a few short weeks that it's been open.

Anthem Hills Skatepark in Las Vegas. This ledge is the result of bikes hammering on it day after day. Of course a piece of angle iron would have helped here. Or the bikes could just stay away since it's posted, no bikes. (photo by John Bracken)

Anthem Hills Skatepark. What you can see is that even pipe coping can't stop damage from bikes. The pipe rattles when a heavy bike hits it and eventually the pipe begins to damage the concrete beneath it. (photo by John Bracken)

Same type of damage; different area. Although, you can see where pegs are chipping the concrete away below the coping. Anthem Hills Skatepark. (photo by John Bracken)