Since the municipal council has nothing against a bike playground, the project is now picking up speed.
With prominent support.
Bike park project is picking up speed following a municipal council resolution.
Mayor Alfons Besel convenes a round table.
Initiators want to set up their own division in the sports club SF Gmund.
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Even if Ralf Jirgens likes to ride a racing bike in his free time: Because his sons - seven and twelve years old - are into trail bikes, he knows all the bike parks in the near and far.
“Trail riding and mountain biking are absolutely trendy,” says Jirgens and knows a wide range of supporters behind him.
Therefore, together with Simon Englhardt and secondary school sports teacher Markus Baum, he submitted the application for a bike park to the local council.
Under the impression that young mountain bikers had moved in, the committee agreed in principle to the establishment of a bike playground and also spoke out in favor of start-up funding.
Trails through the forest, for example on the Gmund Hainzenhöhe, appeared to the local council as questionable.
Bike playground has absolute priority.
Mayor Alfons Besel
The project has been picking up speed since the meeting: "The bike playground has absolute priority," admits Mayor Alfons Besel and has already convened a round table for November 17th.
Together with representatives of the district office, the lower nature conservation authority, the district sports officer, the initiators around Jirgens and other stakeholders involved, it should be discussed where and how a bike park would be feasible.
We are not only talking about the leisure area on the Oedberg, but above all the skateboarding and ice rink behind the Tegernseer Hof in Finsterwald.
Jirgens knows the advantages and disadvantages: “A park on the Oedberg would be geared towards tourism and commerce.
The location in Finsterwald, on the other hand, would be easier to reach for the youth in Gmund. ”After all, a real trail bike only has one gear, long distances are ridden standing up.
“Finsterwald would be ideal in order to be able to offer a mountain bike elective again at school,” says Jirgens.
The 49-year-old is delighted to see the response to the coverage of the bike park.
The German Alpine Association (DAV) and the German Mountain Bike Initiative (DIMB) have now approached him, and a number of citizens have already offered support.
Bike park plans in Gmund: A world champion is pushing ahead
Next Monday, the initiator will even get prominent start-up help: The Ameranger Guido Tschugg, downhill world champion from 2017 in the over 40s, comes to Gmund to discuss the topic with the initiators and town hall chief Alfons Besel in front of the camera on Bavarian television.
Jirgens also struggles to put the project on a legally stable footing: He wants to found a division under the umbrella of Sportfreunde Gmund.
He or Simon Englhart want to make the leader.
The name is already there: Bike Crew Gmund.
"The board of the association has already expressed itself positively, it only needs the blessing of the other division heads", reports Jirgens.
He hopes that at least one bike park can be realized as early as 2021.
Even more: "I'm one hundred percent sure."
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