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Whistler Blackcomb recently gave over ownership of one of its mountain biking operations to the employees, Tom Prochazka, Dave Kelly and Rob Cocquyt.
The above Gents will run Gravity Logic Inc, aka GLI, as an indepedent operation, as well as supplying trail design to the Whistler Mountain Bike Park.
Word has it that the Whistler bike park receives in excess of 100,000 paid visits a year, the highest visitor rate at any bike park in the world.
"Our biggest challenge is convincing ski resorts there's a viable market and that the investment's worth it. And it's not cheap to develop [bike parks]. The price for a kilometre of trail for a bike park is $30,000. And they typically need a minimum of 20 kilometres for a reasonably good product." Gravity is partnering with Kona Mountain bike parks (a division of Kona Mountain Bikes).
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