To leave room for grandstands and a secondary course, the construction superintendent, P. T. Andrews, proposed a 2.5-mile oval with gently banked turns.
When I rode the gondola to the summit, the view of the mountain bike park was impressive: ribbons of trails wend through varying grades of topography, including gently sloping rollers; banked Bikercross courses; narrow and twisting single-track trails; and nasty, death-defying drops.
The DIYers rib him gently about banks and expenses, but hear him out and promise him their vote.
Gently sloping banks, some patched with maize, bananas or sugar cane, shelved into the river's edge that anchored duck pens, small brick factories and bamboo jetties.
I visited during the balmy June "white nights" and, standing at 3am in daylight on the gently lapping banks of the Neva, I was enchanted.
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. has decided to err on the side of caution, gently nudging banks to alter the terms of a small fraction of mortgages headed toward default.
There's a lovely orderliness to the place that appeals to my neurotic side: the 50m lanes are flanked by a food kiosk and roomy changing rooms to the left – hot showers included – and three levels of wooden decking and a gently inclined bank of grass to the right, along which rows of yellow parasols loom.
The best catfish ponds are regular-shaped with gently sloping banks and depths of 4 to 5 feet (1.2 to 1.5 m).
Eventually, he said, the plane would be "gently diverted" and would bank or climb as appropriate to avoid the forbidden area.
He stopped the car, reversed, pointed the headlights towards the spot and, sure enough, a human shape lay stretched out on a gently-sloping bank just two metres from the track.
