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    AN ASPHALT WONDER

    May 08, 2020 3 minutes
    Words & Images Caleb Smith

    A while back I asked Velosolutions NZ boss, Craig Pattle, how many pump tracks they’d built globally in the past year. The answer was an astounding 51. That was back in June 2019 and has undoubtedly grown since then. Australia got its first Velosolutions track in September, and the big news for us Kiwis is that we’ve received our second.

    Pump tracks are nothing new; they’re essentially small BMX tracks comprised of a

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