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Aztec Riverside BMX Track Breaks Ground This Fall
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Aztec Riverside BMX aims to break ground this October on a two-acre, city-owned lot for a new BMX track, giving local children a home course instead of long drives to Durango or Albuquerque to race. The nonprofit is working with USA BMX to design the track to national standards. Beyond race day, organizers plan a loaner bike fleet, Strider races for the youngest riders and a school partnership teaching children how bikes work through a STEM program.
By Tanner Waite
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Biking gets kids off of screens. It gets them outdoors. Uh out in the sunshine. Uh I believe bikes are the solution to a lot of the world's problems. I think if more people would be on bikes, we'd have a better world because people that ride bikes are better people. They're just happier. Happier people are better people.
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SPEAKER_00We're here uh trying to build a track for the community. It's a BMX racetrack. It'll be sanctioned through USA BMX. We're hoping to break ground the beginning of October and be open this year.
SPEAKER_01Well, right now we're bringing in dirt. We have basically two acres of property that the city gave us to use or leased us to use. It starts basically all the way in this corner. We'll come all the way around to this next corner where the fence is. We're coming all the way past over here, just under the power line, and then uh back across to where the park is. And this building here is going to be our concessions and our registration. We're gonna hopefully eventually we're planning on having lights so we can run night races.
SPEAKER_00It's all about the kids. Um, our kid races BMX. He's been doing it for about six years now. He's training to hopefully go pro. Uh, and a bunch of the kids in this area have to travel up to Durango or down to Albuquerque to race. In fact, all the kids in Aztec and Farmington, their home track is Albuquerque, which is a very long drive for these kids. So we want to bring something to them where they could race here and be competitive with the other tracks in New Mexico since they're open year-round. And Durango's only open about five months a year. So we wanted to give them that opportunity and just give them something fun to do.
SPEAKER_01So the USA BMX is gonna come out and design us our track. So I don't know exactly the layout yet until they they have it on paper, but they have our maps, they know everything that we want. We've told them our our wishes and desires, and and they're gonna make us something really awesome and rad for us kids to be racing out here. Uh their people and their experts, and they built us our first track to get it sanctioned and ready to go, so it's up to their specs, so it's a good quality track and not like a like a hell track from the movies with spare tires and and rocks and stuff you're dumping over. So it's a real USA BMX track.
SPEAKER_00I think it's gonna have a big impact both for the kids and the activities they can do, and financially for the community. Uh big race here can bring in thousands of dollars in revenue for the city. So I think that's fantastic. Additionally, um, it's gonna give these kids after school programs to do. It's gonna give them something to do on the weekend. We're planning on working with the school and doing a STEM project with the kids, uh, teaching them how to build bikes, things like that too. So it should be great.
SPEAKER_02We will have a loaner bike fleet and we'll have strider races for the kids. We plan to do some things through the schools, through STEM programs, uh, get kids down here on bikes.
SPEAKER_00To reach out, you can uh email us at info at Aztec RiversideBMX.org. You can also reach out to uh VP.arsbmx at gmail. That's my email address as vice president. There's also one for our track operator. Um and uh worst case scenario, you can always swing by barefoot bikes. He's got information for you there too.
SPEAKER_03Thank you for watching this edition of the local news network. To learn more, visit Aztec RiversideBMX.org as well as Aztec RiversideBMX on Facebook and Instagram. And for more stories like this, it is lnn.news.