Paved MTB: Urban Bike Park Offers Obstacles, Builds Skills

The Peppermint Bike Park , built in the density of Bangkok, includes wood bridges, berms, and elevated sections, wavy pavement, lights for night biking, clean delineating paint lanes, and the overall look of a kid’s matchbox car race track.

Paved MTB: Urban Bike Park Offers Obstacles, Builds Skills

We’ve covered indoor mountain biking as well as singletrack for biking in caves . This month a new kind of mountain bike park opened in Thailand.

Paved MTB: Urban Bike Park Offers Obstacles, Builds Skills

It opened last week, on May 9, financed by Peppermint Field, which makes gels and balms in Thailand.

The company’s marketing director is a big cycling advocate, and he concepted the bike park as a place where Bangkok’s urban cycling community “could ride safely while developing necessary skills” for mountain biking.

Paved MTB: Urban Bike Park Offers Obstacles, Builds Skills

The trail layout has two paths, one paved and the other wood bridges and berms.

Paved MTB: Urban Bike Park Offers Obstacles, Builds Skills

They are just 1 kilometer long, but the park encourages laps and skill-building on the obstacles and iterations of the trails.

Paved MTB: Urban Bike Park Offers Obstacles, Builds Skills

Road bikes are not allowed. The park was created to encourage people to learn to mountain bike.

Paved MTB: Urban Bike Park Offers Obstacles, Builds Skills

It’s open day and night, including lighted paths and sessions until 10pm.

Paved MTB: Urban Bike Park Offers Obstacles, Builds Skills

Annual or daily tickets are available. Check out Peppermint Bike Park for a new experience if you pass through Thailand anytime soon.

Paved MTB: Urban Bike Park Offers Obstacles, Builds Skills

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