Bay area snowflex park
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A lot. Liberty would be able to pull some big donors. I was there when they first opened it and it wasn't that happening but it seems to be doing pretty well, that said I don't ride there regularly. I think they've got the best booter out of any snoflex park.
I know the university got a ton of donations for it. That being said a snowflex mountain in Denver, SLC, or Tahoe....I think would do great. Just a matter of funding. I was looking at some of the costs for snowflex. Talk about massive overpricing!!!!!
Snowflex is almost made the same exact way that astroturf gets made. They use a different type of plastic, and make the individual pieces of plastic longer and stiffer then regular astroturf. Then then glue foam padding to the bottom of it, and put tiny holes in it for the sprinkler system
It is over 10X as much as astroturf, and you need to have Briton engineering install it.
So Briton engineering is making a killing on the just the sales of the product, then add in installation costs.
It's no wonder that Liberty is the only place in the U.S with an actual dryslope.
It would be much better if there was a product similar to snowflex that was actually somewhat affordable. If that happened I bet we would see far more dryslopes in the U.S then just Liberty.
Snowflex is almost made the same exact way that astroturf gets made. They use a different type of plastic, and make the individual pieces of plastic longer and stiffer then regular astroturf. Then then glue foam padding to the bottom of it, and put tiny holes in it for the sprinkler system
It is over 10X as much as astroturf, and you need to have Briton engineering install it.
So Briton engineering is making a killing on the just the sales of the product, then add in installation costs.
It's no wonder that Liberty is the only place in the U.S with an actual dryslope.
It would be much better if there was a product similar to snowflex that was actually somewhat affordable. If that happened I bet we would see far more dryslopes in the U.S then just Liberty.
Well first the UK doesn't get snow. You don't have ski mountains to compete with. It's artificial or bust. Also Briton engineering is from Yorkshire.
I know they make banks on the few large scale installations they do but I've always felt if they had a lower price and made it publicly available their sales would be insane and people would go shred it anywhere.
Even if it was unreasonably pricey I could see putting a 2' wide strip down a drop in and putting a tiny piece on a landing or something. Maybe just on the transition and jump. And it wouldn't keep people from going to the real thing. Even if I had a crazy summer setup next to liberty I'd still go and pay sometimes to shred there.
I know they make banks on the few large scale installations they do but I've always felt if they had a lower price and made it publicly available their sales would be insane and people would go shred it anywhere.
Even if it was unreasonably pricey I could see putting a 2' wide strip down a drop in and putting a tiny piece on a landing or something. Maybe just on the transition and jump. And it wouldn't keep people from going to the real thing. Even if I had a crazy summer setup next to liberty I'd still go and pay sometimes to shred there.
pat-rickdaigle
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very sad
elis.jones1
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At our dryslope we use dendex, which is one of the oldest and cheapest options, and it still costs a bomb to replace any matting. We usually have to be buy second hand matting.
