Venus Trails secretly opened in Cologne, Germany

May 12, 2006

Written by Bart de Jong

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The opening of the Venus trails saw about 30-40 people show up. Mostly MTB-ers, sad but true, but also a couple of photographers and filmers showed up. Tim Bucholz took the photos you see with this little report so thanks to him. As planned we got together at the Aldi parking lot and rode over to the dirt jumps together. We had laid out a red carpet which was pretty effective. Jan Stoertzer held a short speech followed by a raffle where the two winners both got a T-shirt and some scissors. With these scissors they cut the ribbons that were placed across the dirt jumps. After that, the session was on.

Quite a few had problems clearing the big jumps as there was no possibility to warm up on smaller sets. One of the BMX-ers broke his arm and had to be taken to the hospital. After the early difficulties were over, it turned into a nice session.

Tricks done were no-footed can cans, supermans, no handers, 360-s, flips and Aze tried three 360-flips that were really close. Even closer than the ones he tried in Estonia.

The Venus trails contribute to the Cologne scene and hopefully a lot of cool sessions will follow without the City giving us hell.

Aze