RYAN & JASON BULLIMORE, TIRPENTWYS TRAILS
Ryan Bullimore had a vision. He wanted to build a bike park. It was Ryan’s birthday and his dad Jason was giving Ryan and his mates a day of uplifts, taking in some of the finest off-piste trails in South Wales. It was while riding some of the trails outside Pontypool that Ryan found a clearing on a hillside that lent itself to his vision. A few days after his birthday he returned with tools and set about building a bike park. Unofficially.
The piece of land Ryan had set his mind and tools on was a quiet area next to a nature reserve, frequented only by the occasional dog walker, or so he thought. The hillside might not have had huge elevation, but it was steep and the road back up to the top made doing multiple runs, either van or pedal-powered, quick and easy.
“THERE’S BEEN CANNABIS GROWN HERE FOR YEARS AND I JUST THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING BIG!”
With so few people using the woods, it was a while before Ryan’s work was discovered. “There was one old chap with a Jack Russell who we met on the fire road and we asked him if he minded what we were up to,” says Jason. “He said, ‘Well, it’s different to what I
