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Well I guess since now we are getting threats there is no time like the present to address the “bike” issue.
Below please find our most recent message…..
hope yall know
that lots of bikers including myself are gunna ride this park.
soo, bikes should probaly be let in or...theres gunna be problems. like lots of bikers goin down. protests, u know.
cuz i think us bikers need stuff too. we tear up the city way more than skaters. and it would be good to have a place of our own to tear up.
hope this gets thru to you. thanks .=)
cody speer™
While the Skate Erie Association is in agreement that bikers need a place of their own...... it will not be this park.
Let me start with some history. The SEA was formed back in October of
2006. Since then local skaters and skateboard advocates together have raised over $100,000 for the cities first skatepark. We have gone before council, city officials and local charitable organizations. We have solicited door to door. We have held numerous benefits, written and won grant applications, one being the largest award offered by the Tony Hawk foundation which is in fact the largest skateboard park advocate in the U.S.
Local skaters have held press conferences, held dress down days at their school and have attended design meetings with skate park designers Grindline and offered input.
We are nearing the end of our struggle.
Where were the bikers?
Apparently they are here now and it’s to late.
You can look back over the blogs, in specific one dated Nov. 22, 2006 where we asked the bikers to come forward .Three years later, still none has come forward except to claim a rite to ride a park our local skaters built.
As quoted by Mr. Speer “we tear up the city way more than skaters” this is exactly why bikers are not welcome in most parks.
Currently in Erie there exists a bmx track and numerous dirt tracks, it is also not a crime to ride your bike down town, however there is a city ordinance on the record that prohibits skating in the city and no safe place to ride a board.
In a nut shell when this park is all said and done it will cost nearly
a quarter million dollars and will be a shining new light in the cities park system. It will be clearly signed and heavily patrolled by both local law enforcement and members of the SEA.
Should all the bikers like to get together and rally for their cause we would be more than happy to point you in rite direction to build your own facility.
4:19 PM
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