Youth Olympic Games Singapore 2010
This video summarize the 2 exciting weekends for Dirtraction’s team at the Youth Olympics Games
the full coverage of mountain biking, BMX, Road time trials and mass start, in various roles.
we need a rest!
Boomerang
The crew is well rested after a few days of grass planting work.
we started the week with the finishing the lines at the frontage area.
and we took a stroll to check on the valley again to see how things are after a week.
Tampines Bike Park - BMX Track all ready for some touchup.
miracle! nature reclaim the bare constructed site within 7 days.
BMX start box all ready for the gate
Rajah and Shankar at the Boomerang. 5m to 3m to singletrack
we cheated. a quick fix at the fall line filled frontage, rocks are placed in and compacted with a mixture of trail surfacing.
through the looking grass and beyond the tree line
green green grass of home. the valley restored to its natural greenish tint. note the lines, The Eel, The Hamburger Climbs are all visible
Phase 2 BMX – Day 6
review day, ride day, touch up straight way 4 day.
the crew is spent, see you next week.
tire marks of the day
Phase 2 BMX – Day 5
with the long day behind, the crew concentrate on the start hill cement start block, 4th straight way table-double-table combo, and carving out the 2nd straight way lines.
Jason entertained himself with rolling turn 1 almost by himself, while I took over for turn 3, the buggy ride is definitely eye popping, accelerating backwards, high G force and we can gladly miss most of the coaster rides for now.
Jason at turn 1
turn 1 all done up, we just need patch up before the Singapore Mountain Bike Carnival
view from turn 3 towards turn 2
tom swap the seat of the cat for a top view from turn 3
Phase 2 BMX – Day 4 The Longest Day
one epic day for Tampines Bike Park.
the RIDE
We’ve about 30 crew on the track for most of the day, today is the big day where the asphalt turn get its distinct black surface.
we’ve 120 tons of hot asphalt, 13 crew all ready for ‘hot feet’ session racking the track as we get the burning hot tarmac poured, 6 film crew and 2 camera personnel, 3 BMX turns to pave, 3 supervisors, 4 compactors, 3 excavator operators, 2 Dirtraction’s crew, a few visit from SYOGOC personnel, countless coordination phone calls SSC-SYOGOC-Contractors, 1 asphalt expert, 1 crazy golf buggy, 1 cement startgate platform to design and 12hrs of continuous work symphony conducted by Tom himself.
graffiti art on turn 3
Tom showing how we should rack it
hot racking at turn 3
turn 3 almost ready to be compacted, buggy is taken apart for streamlining
Compacting for production
mobile water supply for turn 3
clear hot sky for the day, we asked for it we got it!
turn 1 halfway 'painted'
newest ride in Tampines Bike Park, Bumpy Buggy Berm Ride.
turn 2 nicely compacted, with the dark cloud looming behind
excavator assisted asphalt laying
hot tarmac from the tap
start hill carved up for starter zone, and start gate
work move on as the sky move towards sunset
tom compacting turn 2 himself
last load of hot asphalt at 8-9PM assisted by various machinery lighting.
Phase 2 – BMX Day 3
straight 3 and 4 are ready.
tom checking on the start gate numbers
turn 2 all turf up
the finish line
rolling the straights
Phase 2 – BMX Day 2
more touch up at straight 2 and straight 3.
while the leveling is done around straight 4.
tom at the rollers
turn 3 all dug up for some nice sun tan
straight 3 and 4 are readied. note the last 2 of the rollers on the right
2nd phase for BMX track
back to BMX.
Tom arrived the day before and we spend the day cleaning up the mud fest around the track.
Straight one and straight two are touch up for further compaction. while we drop the drain pipe in for turn 3.
all well under the canvas
drying the earth
excavating the drainage
straight way 1 all ready
while we wait.
tools for the giant, a wrongly done up scrapper
BMX track in the sea of blue
Surviving the weather
large canvas coverall
The canvas coverall are in!
The crew took the afternoon to cover the BMX track, just in time for one heavy load of rain to pour when the last peg is planted.
One lucky move we’ve there.
We let the rain pour the track before venturing deep into the BMX track for some drainage inspection.
water are flowing exactly where we wanted and is great to see pipes and earth drains are moving the loads of water off from the jumps.
main earth drain
water channel is working nicely between straight 2 and 3
culvert from straight 1 are working nicely
straight 1 and 2 remain dry with the shallow dip we cut into, hail to the clinometer
