Hey I’m Kurt Sorge and welcome to our yard.
I’ve been a professional mountain biker for 15 years
Grew up in Nelson BC
My Grandma taught me how to ride my first two wheeler
The bike was just a way to get to school
I think it was the first sense of freedom as a kid
Nelson has amazing trails but we always had to travel somewhere else to go ride big jumps
We would always just find a pile of dirt somewhere or go build our own jumps
The dream was always to have jumps on your own property, that aren’t at risk of getting plowed
This project is the next generation of jumps in our yard
Yeah to have this jump compound over the years has led me to 3 Red Bull Rampage titles
And it’s just been so huge for my career
And just stoked to partner up with Kubota and take the compound to the next level and create my dream yard
You know the main focus of course is the big line, but then we also wanted to make some smaller lines
Warm up lines, friend’s lines, been building here for over 10 years
Yeah kinda rebuilt the jumps a few times, this latest build was a few years ago
We’ve just been picking away at it, but now it’s time to make some serious changes and get everything running perfect
Now we’re sitting in front of the second big landing and this is probably going to be our biggest challenge of the whole build
It’s just moving this landing a little more forward so it just lines up better, more speed, better angle for the jumps
We’re about 2 weeks into the build here now and yeah it’s coming along great
We just had machines going nonstop, had some friends come out, they’ve been helping me plug away so we got both machines going
Alex Volokhov has been out here a lot, I got a bunch of other buddies helping with some hand shaping
Yeah it’s all really coming along, without the help of Kubota and those guys it would be
really difficult and basically impossible to do by myself
After having the opportunity to use a machine and really seeing what you can create with the advantage of having an excavator,
it was just mind blowing really
For years now, I’ve got the opportunity to build tracks and jumps with excavators
Mostly being the supervisor and designer, I’ve always had the dream of wanting to build it myself
and jump into the operating seat
So this kinda the opportunity to finally just have my own yard to play around and kinda teach myself how to operate
We finally been able to do the changes and tweaks that we wanted to do for the last 4 years
Now we’re finally really coming into winter and it’s freezing pretty heavily overnight
and it’s just kinda the dream to have everything
how you want it and not have any uncompleted jobs on your mind
So come spring we’re doing the final touches and it’s time to ride
We’ve been working all spring on the jobs and yeah it’s all coming together great
We’re just doing the last final touches and yeah it won’t be long and then we’re riding
I am really excited to show you guys the newest addition to the yard,
we got the road gap, been wanting to build this ever since we’ve been out here and it’s finally happened
This one is super fun and yeah kinda maxing your air time
There we have it, finishing touches on the yard, ready to ride
It’s really cool to have Kubota come onboard and support a project like this
and branch out into an industry that’s so positive for a healthy community and for future generations growing up
Sweet there we have it, first inaugural session in on the jumps, couldn’t be more stoked
Just can’t thank everyone enough for all the help,
it was a huge amount of work and now I just get to enjoy the fruits of our labour