Pumptrack bike parts and set-up?

Goddammit @ribena no need to ruin my day with your accurate observations before it's even started!

I don’t recommend the Bird for pump track use, this is the result of me riding like I was young again on a bmx.
Might have been the speed, might have been the damp, might have been the tyres (definitely the tyres btw) might have been laying it too flat too low in the berm but I have a sneaky suspicion it was the Bird.

You can have fun on anything when riding a pump track but something shorter, stiffer and with fast rolling tyres will always be better.

FWIW I rode the pump track at FOD on my Primal hardtail with 29” wheels and 160mm forks, it was terrible, but rather than buy another bike I just didn’t ride it again so there’s other ways around the problem.

Sorry Chiefgrooveguru, there are currently 2 pumptrack bike threads running and I obviously got them mixed up as I have read and commented on both. I thought this was the one where the OP said they had a Bird hardtail that needed a few more bits to get up and running.

Edit - turns out I did comment on the correct thread after all. Just pump up your forks, flip the headset around and buy demons cheap Clarks or Shimano brakes.