EVENTS

Traditionally the active season of Velo Park 2012 had been opened with dynamic competition and vibrant recreational activities on a specially prepared pitch, allowing athletes to show their level and skills, gain experience and achieve new results.

It was:
3rd Winter Bike Constructors Cup
R.A.S.T.A. BIKE Club held the 3rd Winter Bike Constructors Cup in the framework of the exhibition. Among the participants there were the owners of the rare self-made bikes. The visitors voted for the models they liked in the following nominations: custom (homemade frame), tuning (ground effects of factory frame); aerography (frame colouring); the audience choice award; the surprise (jury award). Every year the interest to self-made bikes is growing in Russia, and the high skills level, new technical solutions, quality work inspire R.A.S.T.A. BIKE Club to hold such competitions again and again.

Bike Trial Competitions
In the framework of Velo Park 2012 and with the support of the Department of Physical Education and Sport of Moscow and Training Centre of the Extreme and Youth Sports of Moscow Sports Committee, X3M-MASTER team (Moscow) and TRIAL-CONSTRUCTION team (St. Petersburg) hold the competitions on bike trial (Speed trial, Trial mix, Trial Elit and Trial Expert). Sponsors did their best to provide great prizes for the winners. All athletes were happy to open the new season at Velo Park 2012, that had already become good a tradition in trial community. During autumn and winter the athletes got out of shape a little, but the competitions showed who and how intensive was training during this period. Those who did not win the medal place are motivated now to train better and take revenge in the next competitions. The competitions schedule in 2012 is not as intensive as it was in 2011, and the athletes can more seriously and thoroughly prepare to each stage of the Russian Cup and the Russian Championship in 2012.

PAD Fighters
The spark that lit the exhibition space was the PAD FIGHTERS freestyle contest on the air-cushion FS314 MTB, represented by MTV magazine Let's RIDE. The contest was held during three exhibition days, the first day – warm-up and next two days were full of pure extreme!