While this is a Colby Raha video, I'm sharing it so you can check out the crazy backyard ramp set-up that Dennis Enarson has.
When I first started this blog, a couple of months ago. a Colby Raha video popped up on YouTube, as I was getting ready to write the first post. Since I was writing about bike and skate spots, all the weird places that riders and skaters ride and skate, I used Colby's video for post number one. It was a sick looking spillway, a crazy looking spot, and Colby did a 114 foot downhill canyon jump there. You can check that post out here.
Since then, I've watched a bunch of Colby's videos, which are always entertaining. He's a great MX rider, and pretty crazy, and he likes to push the boundaries, and ride some really weird places. He's one of the reasons, probably the main reason, street MX is now a thing. I've done a lot of skate posts, and was looking for another BMX place to write about. It turns out that this video starts out at Dennis Enarson's backyard ramps. But this is one crazy set-up for backyard ramps.
In this video, about 4 of the first 5 1/2 minutes are at Dennis' ramps, and we see Dennis run through a series of lines, showing us what all these ramps are for. The main feature in the center is a big jump box, and that makes sense. But there's a huge undervert banked wall on one side, an under vert curve, a wall ride, a curved corner section, a spine, and ramps at odd angles. Then there's a huge launch ramp, that doesn't seem to lead anywhere. In a few minutes, we see Dennis tear up this place up, alley-ooping into the banked wall, and launhing off that weird launch, carving back to the main landing. There's a whole bunch of interesting ideas going on in this ramp set-up. While backyard ramps have progressed a lot over the last 35 years, I've never seen a set-up like this.
After Dennis and Colby riding the ramps, and a couple of other guys, we see Colby hit the ramps on his motorcycle. The video goes on to how Colby doing a big, downhill bonzai jump in San Diego on his motorcycle, and then they hit up a ditch, and then some curved wall rides on the BMX bikes. Dennis' ramps are one of the most interesting backyard ramp set-ups I've seen, and it may give BMXers out there some ideas for building their own ramps in the future, either in a the backyard, or maybe for a contest or skatepark.
