For mountain-bike riders, this is the mountain, indoors.

For street-bike riders, these are the pits, berms, jumps and more, indoors.

For road-bike riders, this is the road, indoors — and, eventually, outdoors too.

Welcome to CranX Indoor and Outdoor Bike and Sports Park, a state-of-the-art and beyond complex nearing completion inside the former 90,000-square-foot Telergy warehouse space at 6341 Thompson Road in DeWitt (across from the Verizon building).

Its creators say its scope may reach beyond the handful of similar facilities in North America. They’ve been to the others and done the research.

“We come back in here, we build it, and we’re testing it right away, and if we say, ‘Oh, that’s not going to work,’ we fix it,” said Dale Cruce, one of the partners on CranX.

Though still a few weeks out from its soft opening — partner Seth Fischer is hoping for early February — it’s a sight to see on a cold January day.

CranX is cranking.

It’s an undulating swirl of planks, plywood and partially milled tree-branch trails that sweep around and above the factory floor. Hugging its perimeters is a wood platform that circles the top of the warehouse. Think a very fancy, very high deck built to ride cross country — on and under.

“It’s the tallest indoor wall ride right now — possibly,” Cruce said with a grin. “I’m still looking into that.”

Cruce and Fischer visited Inflow Bike & Skatepark in Dundas, Ontario, as well as Ray’s MTB Indoor Park in Cleveland, Ohio, (there’s another in Milwaukee) to see what worked and what didn’t.

“I haven’t been on a bike in 25 years,” said Fischer. “But I got on a mountain bike at Inflow, and I could handle it. I was far from expert, but I could handle it.”

That's the idea. CranX is built for beginners, intermediate riders and experts.

There have been some trial and error, corrections and fixes by the teams building CranX since early December. Visitors can see tire tread marks on the side walls of some of the berms — which means the riders were horizontal, with the floor beneath them.

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Here’s some of what CranX offers inside:

• The multilevel cross-country track and smooth trails where riders can get up to speeds of 15 to 20 mph, testers have found.



• Tricked-out trails that have features including teeter-totters and suspension bridges, along with tree stumps, limbs and logs that mimic outdoor riding.

• Pump tracks with rollovers, where riders pump the bikes over flowing trails without pedaling.

• Free-ride trails in the middle of the space, jump trails, a BMX street section, a foam pit to land in or teeter above after jumps.

• A corkscrew trail called The Cathedral.

• Berm trails that swirl riders up, down and around.

• A Bird’s Nest picnic area atop the cross-country course will allow riders, sporting backpacks, to stop, eat and watch fellow riders.

• A party room, lockers and a bike shop.

• There is nothing like this anywhere in the world,” said Fischer, as he showed off the facility Friday.

A 3-acre outdoor park for CranX comes in the spring. It will have even more elements for bike riders of all styles, types and expertise, said Fischer.

Combined with the indoor facility, it might make CranX the largest park of its kind in North America, with road courses looping inside and out.

“What we found with the other parks,” said Fischer, “was there wasn’t decent flow. We addressed that.”

Fischer credits Cruce with coming up with the idea for the park years ago. Cruce says the development of other parks across North America made CranX an easier sell to town officials and possible sponsors.

The former warehouse has an abundance of natural light, with windows all around and skylights.

An army of volunteers, plus paid contractors, are helping move the carpentry work along, Cruce and Fischer said.

On Friday, Zac George, of Pioneer Contracting, was sawing through wood on the cross-country track. He is volunteering his time.

“The cross-country course is his baby,” said Fischer.

Interest in CranX has been accelerating since the fall, said Fischer and Cruce. They expect riders from all over the state to visit CranX.

Rates for the park vary, with memberships and punch cards available. A weekday adult rate is $20, and $28 on the weekend. Equipment rentals will also be available.