I Got A New Airbag In The Garden!! And Had A Massive Crash...

Welcome back to the garden everyone. So good to be back here. Darkfest was awesome. We've got no hair left, but now we're back in the UK. It's springtime, kind of everything's drying up, so it means time for some garden upgrades for this year. Last year we got this awesome jump running that's still going pretty cool. We've got the classic dirt jump line over here, a little bit overgrown. Everything just needs a little tidy up, but I have actually been busy. Brendan has dropped around his old airbag, which we did use for a couple of funny things like jumping out of a tree, but he doesn't really have a good spot to set it up, so he's donated it to the back garden. Obviously he can come ride it whenever he wants, it's part of the deal, but we are putting an airbag in the back garden so we can practice all our tricks, have people over to session it and just generally have a good time as well. It's going to be epic. We managed to winch in the airbag. It was easier said than done, took a good couple hours, but amazingly we got it up to this platform up there behind me, what you can see, but I'll show you that in a minute because I want to show you this. This is the dirt jump line from last year, which I never really liked. We never quite had enough dirt here, but I'm using all the dirt that I'm digging from the run-in for the airbag and dumping it on top of that. So this is going to be way bigger and better this year for the first dirt jump. The ramp's all there, so it shouldn't take too long to get that right in shape. And then you will have way more speed for that second ramp there. So it's going to be a good summer out here in the garden. Here it is then, this is where the airbag has gone in. You may remember this, it was actually the first jump right here, was the first jump I ever built in the garden, was a little shark fin here, but now this is going to be the run-in for the airbag because I never really liked this small sort of dirt jump line. It took way too much maintenance and then I built a big line, so I never rode the small one really ever again. I demolished all of those jumps and just dug it into a flat platform here, which is now the airbag. It's 40 feet long. I don't know how wide it is, I think it's like 25 feet wide, something like that. But it is huge, I can't wait to blow it up in a minute and see, well, see if it's got any holes in. Bren said it may have a couple of holes in. Hopefully the blowers work, hopefully the generator works. But yeah, pretty sick. And then I've dug all the way down here, we're gonna have to build a ramp in here and then have a pretty serious airbag. I want it to be good for downhill bikes, dirt jump bikes. And yeah, I haven't learned any new tricks for a long time, but this is going to be huge motivation out here. And then CA is going to have to learn backflips or 360s or something, isn't he? Can't wait to tell him the good news when he arrives. I just need to make some kind of berm here and get rid of this jump so we can put the ramp in there. I want it to be as smooth as possible and have as much speed as possible so that we've got no limits to how big we can go on this airbag. Right. Dirt work all seems to be pretty nice. So next up, we're going for a wooden ramp. That way I can move it in and out in case I want to make the gap bigger or smaller. And we didn't really have that much dirt up there. So this is the easiest option and probably the quickest. So step number one, you've got to decide the radius. We're going for four meters radius, which is the curve of this ramp. That's because it's the same as the wood chip ramp down at the bottom. So the idea is that you can practice on the airbag and then go straight to the wood chip jump and it'd be pretty similar. But step number one is to then measure four meters piece of string, tie a pen to the end of it, screw down the other end and draw basically a four meter radius circle. We've gone for 18 mil thick for the sides and then we're going to screw, I think, 11 mil ply on the front to get that kind of curve and the bend in the wood. Yeah. First job is to draw this out and then get cutting. A bit of camera mounting to bring everyone the action and a big long time lapse on the Insta360. Now, just in case there's anything wrong with our measurements, it's best to use one side, trace around it to make the second side that way. Even if they're a bit wrong, then at least they're both the same and they're wrong together and your ramp is equal because there's nothing worse than a wonky ramp. That would never work. So all the side pieces are cut. We made sure we did them all down here on the driveway where it's kind of as flat as can be. Now we've got to carry them up to where the ramp's going to go in front of the airbag and yeah, start piecing it together like a massive puzzle. There we go. It's actually a lot longer than the three meter pieces of wood I bought for the base. We're going to have to extend the base out because the ramp's way bigger than I thought it was going to be. We're going to pull it out, make a few supports before we put even more weight on it, just because the only thing holding it up right now is some screws through those bits of wood, but it looks nice. It's going to be a good size for sure. It's at 65 there. So Brendan said it works, but it's a little temperamental, I imagine. Okay, choke on. Oh, that's so quiet actually, isn't it? It's incredibly quiet. All right. Oh, too tight. I think it does need a jolly old clean, which is possibly a job for when it's dry. I don't know. Oh my God. We can't trim much off the top of that ramp, can we? We are going to need to trim some of the bushes or some of the trees hanging down. Mate, that's well thick, I reckon. But yeah, we do need maximum height on the ramp, don't we, because that's tall. That's so good. I really don't want to get dirty, but almost. I'm well impressed by that. I think that's actually... The trees are slightly dangerous, and the death hole of doom down that side. If you crash down there, you are in pretty big trouble actually. But I think I'm going to get some rugby, you know, the pads that go on the rugby. Yeah, wrap around a couple of those trees. Then we'll be safe, man. Then we'll be training. We'll be double flipping into our 40s. You will be. And you can do some 360s. Carl can come do a backflip. It's like, is it Travis's house, don't turn left, or is his don't turn right? His is don't turn right, his is don't turn left. Yeah, this is don't turn left for sure. I'm quite excited now. Yeah, let's finish the ramp. It's actually better, kind of, than I expected it to be. I thought it was going to be sketchy and actually just looks good. We're just putting a diagonal in there to stop the ramp from wobbling side to side. Then we can actually climb up it and get to the top because it's got way over head height now, so we're struggling a bit. Smells lovely. Does smell good. I'm just going to treat the wood a little bit because it is quite damp out here. And we did it with the first ramp we ever made, which is that one down there, which we made six years ago, and it's still totally fine now. So might as well just do it. All right, so we've boxed the back out, put some triangles in, so this thing is solid now. Actually, amazingly solid. All we need to do now is put the front on and then we've got ourselves a ramp. What do you think, Fred? Awesome, dude. Perfect. When the wood goes on, it always looks a lot steeper. I think that looks amazing. Yeah, well, happy with that. It's kind of still raining and still wet, so I think I want to wait till it's dry to hit it. So we're going to call that for today and come back and try it out. I don't even know which bike I want to ride on. It just looks the best. Good, solid day. Another good ramp. Right, here we are a week later then. I actually couldn't wait to ride it, so I have hit it a few times, but the ramp started doing wheelies when I was coming up. So we've put these little foundation screws in, bolted it in, now it's solid. Daryl's come for his first dirt jump session of the year. Yeah, it's been a while. We're going to remember how to ride dirt jumps, I think. I've got a whole brand new bike as well, the Polygon Tread dirt jump bike. Yeah, we're going to do a few tricks on it and see if it works. It's going to be fun. Not like I've been, but Travis Pastrana's foam pit. Well, they say don't turn left, but this is don't turn right, but this is don't turn left. Yeah. Now let's go hit it, actually. I mean, I've hit it like three or four times and like I said, the ramp almost took off, so hopefully it's better now. It does look really good. It looks fun. It does look fun. And to have in your backyard. That's the best, especially at our age. The one sunny day is actually what we not need. It's completely in your eyes, but how good is it that it's such a step up? Yeah, nice. I was a bit tentative with speed on the way in and it was like, still made it almost. Yeah, easy. Come on then, let's get some tricks. I want to touch the bar, warm things up slowly. You good? You all right? Yeah. That's really high. I am okay. It wasn't fun. At least the ramp was good. I only did a frontie as well, because the sun was in my eyes, so I was like, oh, do a frontie. As I dropped in the sun came out, I was like, ****, and then you did a frontie. Yeah, and I cased it, didn't I? Look at his bike as well, in the tree. That's such a... That's honestly like 20 foot. I was falling for ages. I was like, okay, it's like, oh crap, that's probably... I hope I don't fall in the gap and it just made me go left and I was like waiting to roll down and then I was like, oh no, I'm going to hit a tree. Tried to grab a tree and there was nothing. I fell for so long and just went like, come down here. Look, there it is. That's where I landed. How are you going to get that back? You can't get it out, you might have to just leave it there. This is meant to be safe. He did tell me not to turn left. Sam's like, come round, we've got a safe airbag set up. We can learn tricks. Okay, I'm going to put some net in there because that really hurt. I literally landed on my shoulder there. It probably helped a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I rolled nicely and stopped dead there. That is going to hurt so much later, like I already can feel my neck seizing up. Have you ever seen when someone's doing something really bad and you scream at the telly? I think at least I didn't hit a tree. That would have been worth hitting the tree and then going down. There's like spiky little bits between the trees to be improved but also really cool at the same time. Yeah, that really sucked but also could have sucked so much more. Try and get the bike so we can go after that. Well, it was really fun until then and that was terrible but could have been a lot worse. So actually, I think for once we're going to properly make this safe and bring the airbag a bit closer because, yeah, it turns out you can fall off the side. I've never fallen off an airbag and that was just about as bad as you can fall off an airbag. He did warn me and I can't say anything about that. It kind of hurts. Yeah, it could have been so much worse. Yeah, it could have been a lot worse. I feel quite lucky and we're going to wrap the video up there but the airbag is here. I'm going to change it for sure, bring it further this way but that's such a big job that's going to take like a few days. A few months. Yeah, it's probably going to be a few months till I do that. Airbag upgrades coming soon I guess.