Evolving Skatepark cannot do everything, and would rather say so. Instead of stretching our remit artificially, we have entered a lasting partnership with Mobil'iKi, a practice of occupational therapists, to design pumptracks that are genuinely rideable — in a wheelchair as much as on a bike.
Exclusive partner · inclusive riding"Designing tracks nobody has to watch from the side." A partnership bringing together two trades: the design of riding facilities and occupational-therapy expertise in rideability.
Accessible means you can get in. Rideable means you can ride it. Everything we do lies between the two.
A wheelchair is not pumped like a bike. Propulsion comes from the arms and works against the beat of the pump; the centre of gravity is low but set back, which invites tipping backwards; the turning radius is long and cannot be corrected once committed. A two-centimetre lip a bike never feels will stop a wheelchair — or tip it over.
A green run designed for children on balance bikes has neither the radii, nor the transitions, nor the unbroken surface that arm propulsion demands. That is the difference between crossing a facility and doing sport on it.
| The point | What it changes for a wheelchair |
|---|---|
| A continuous surface | Asphalt with no cracks and no cold joints. Every joint is a stopping point for the front castor. |
| Gradual transitions | A bike absorbs an abrupt transition; a wheelchair jams on it or goes over. |
| Wider turn radii | The banked turns are calculated to be held without a correction of steering. |
| Rollers that can be pumped by arm | Spacing and amplitude sized for a propulsion that is nothing like pedalling. |
| Difficulty signage | Coloured chevrons on the ground, on the ski-run principle. Colour, shape and wording always used together. |
| Turning areas | Entries, exits and rest areas sized for turning round, without blocking the flow. |
| A complete access chain | From the car park to the start gate. A perfect track at the end of a dirt path is not rideable. |
What the wheelchair demands, the bike rewards. Long radii, continuous transitions, an unbroken surface: that is exactly what produces flow. The track becomes faster and smoother for everyone. Inclusion costs nobody anything.
Use testing on the earthworks, before the asphalt is laid.
On a conventional project, disability expertise arrives at the finish line: you approve, you observe, you tweak at the edges. The decisions that shape everything — radii, profiles, transitions — have already been taken.
On an Evol'iKi project, the occupational therapist is there from the concept stage and on site, wheelchair included. He does not proof-read a drawing: he rides the earthworks.
Evolving Skatepark holds the line — geometry, radii, profiles, surfacing, specification. Mobil'iKi holds the use — rideability appraisal, co-design, testing and functional acceptance.
Charles-Simon sports complex, Yvelines. From the outset the town chose to go beyond accessibility standards and aim at real rideability — the kind measured by riding, not by ticking boxes.
| Area | 1 500 m² |
| Delivery | April 2026 |
| Opening | 30 May 2026, with the French National Sports Agency and Versailles Grand Parc in attendance |
| The outcome | One single track, ridden at the same time by bikes, scooters, balance bikes, handbikes and wheelchairs. Not a dedicated route next to the real one. The same one. |
"This project is not only a piece of sporting infrastructure: it is a lever for inclusion, a tool of social change and a strong marker of the town's strategy.
From the very beginning we chose to go beyond the standards. With the expertise of Mobil'iKi and Evolving Skatepark, we worked on real rideability for every user, including riders in wheelchairs.
Inclusion is not a slogan: it is a political choice, an investment and a method."
Design of a pumptrack with an inclusive track, from briefing to opening: appraisal, consultation, design, writing the specification, site supervision and functional acceptance. One point of contact, two specialisms in the same project team.
Rideability appraisal. We assess your existing pumptrack or riding facility, identify what genuinely blocks use and hand over a prioritised improvement plan. Most facilities can become far more rideable without being rebuilt.
The full Evol'iKi brochure — ten pages: the figures, the difference between accessible and rideable, the seven design points, how a scheme unfolds and the Bois d'Arcy case.
Not an access ramp at the edge of a skatepark, but a track rideable in a wheelchair — designed, tested and signed off as such.
Radii, transitions, surfacing: the decisions that shape everything are taken with the occupational therapist, not after him. None can be put right once the surface is laid.
Occupational therapy cannot be improvised. We would rather join forces with those who do it better than pretend we can do everything.
"Riding excludes nobody. Facilities sometimes do."
26 specialist contractors have built our projects · none of them holds an exclusivity agreement with us
The project picks the contractor, never the other way round
A design consultancy that does not build has no interest in favouring anyone. On every one of our schemes the contractor is selected by the authority at the end of a tender whose documents we write and whose bids we assess — without ever being a party to it.
Over fifteen years this has had us work with very nearly every French specialist in urban riding facilities. We know what they can actually do, where they stop, and what they charge. That knowledge is what you are buying, not a contact list.
The figure beside each name is the number of projects carried out together. E2S Company appears in two families: it has built an asphalt pumptrack and a concrete structure for us.
Site supervision happens on the ground, alongside the appointed contractor.
Concrete, modules, asphalt: we mix all three within one facility. That is possible precisely because we depend on none of these builders — the material follows the disciplines ridden, and the contractor follows the material.
We answer a town launching its feasibility study just as readily as an authority still weighing up whether a facility makes sense at all. The first conversation costs nothing and often clears up a great deal.