“In the conservation plan, the ramps are the agricultural buildings. “I’ve done some organic farming and I plan on doing some more,” he said, explaining how he skirted zoning restrictions. “The wheels are always turning.”īuilding a structure of the Mega Ramp’s size in an agricultural district required a creative twist typical of Burnquist.
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“I trip out on how his mind works,” said his partner, Jen O’Brien, a professional skateboarder herself. “When I’m risk-taking, I feel like I’m alive,” said Burnquist, who is also a farmer, pilot, skydiver, musician and restaurateur. Im afraid I might jump, he said about his Mega Ramp. He’s the only one that can actually start backwards on the Mega Ramp.”īob Burnquist working on one of his skateboards. “Bob has this ability that transcends traditional vert skating,” Tony Hawk, the sport’s biggest icon, said of ramp skateboarding. Although not the first - the X Games builds one each year - it is the world’s only permanent Mega Ramp, and Burnquist said having it at his home allows him to explore all the possibilities of the sport’s most daring discipline. A shorter route begins with a 55-foot-tall platform leading to a 50-foot gap, and the 30-foot quarterpipe.įor Burnquist, who stands out in a crowd of iconoclasts, the ramp has become the latest step in a journey to create what he called an exponential progression in an otherwise street-bound, terrestrial sport.Ĭompleted in September after more than a year of construction, Burnquist’s Mega Ramp cost $280,000, part of which was covered by his apparel sponsors Oakley and Hurley. Landing on a 27-foot sloped section, they then boost up to 50 feet above the ground from a 30-foot quarterpipe. That is where riders begin their run, speeding down a 180-foot-long roll-in to a ramp that launches them across a 70-foot gap with trapeze netting below. Approximately 360 feet long, the ramp is 75 feet high at its apex.
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