The folks at PROSTART recently released their new Max BMX practice starting gate and it has some great updates from the original. Shane Jenkins of BMXUltra.com got his hands on one and did a great review of the PROSTART MAX. One of the great things about this BMX practice gate is the wider platform to keep you from falling of if you loose your balance.
It’s a little pricey in comparison to the Fast Start/Yellow Cat Snap BMX practice gate combo but if you have the bread for it, this might be the way to go. is made to cater for either BMX or Mountain Bikes with up to 29″ wheels.
Features:
- Gate is composed at 100% of Aluminum to become a very light and stiff product.
- With a thickness of 7mm and dual magnets, the door has been designed to resist from 6 years old kids to professional Elite / heavy riders.
- With a total weight of 20kg, we have designed a portable gate in two parts to save confort during assembly and dissassembly.
- The gate is lying on rubber pads which allow it to be stable and not slippy on any ground surface.
- The door is equipped of an high-quality grip that will hold perfectly any rider wheels
- Both side bars are in stainless steel and will never bend
- Possibility to change the timing to improve skills on starting gesture and permits you to adapt yourself easily on any tracks.
- Possibility to change the waiting time between button pressed and beginning of the voice cadence. (Default time : 3 seconds) up to 10 seconds
- Gate delivered with a robust cardbox for a safe transportation
- Speaker located directly under the rider for a perfect sound diffusion. The volume is adjustable. Max 96dB.
- Separated 4-lamp LED light
- Timing plug to connect all the Prostart timing systems.
- Supplementary plug available to connect one extra MAX portable gate or two Extra ORIGINAL portable gate. (Not possible to add Gate-Hub)(This gate is too big to have a wheeled bag. You have to keep the robust cardboard or fine locally a box that can protect the gate)