For eager bike "pump track" riders the dirt has begun to fly - although at this stage only the contractors who moved on to the Marine Parade site last week are the ones shaking the ground up.
The $340,000 track is the latest addition to Napier's seafront stretch and is being built at the "boundary" area just south of Ellison St.
As well as providing a place for cyclists of all ages and abilities to try out their dirt-riding skills, the new facility will also feature landscaping and a parking facility to cater for freedom campers.
"It also gives us the opportunity to tidy up that entrance to the city," Napier Mayor Bill Dalton said.
Contractors have begun laying out the planned course which will be sculpted into paved berms, jumps and rollers over an area about 100m long and 60m wide. The track is being designed to allow cyclists to continually pump their bikes to gain propulsion rather than pedal.
The work is expected to be wrapped up in about a month.
Mr Dalton said the track complemented the Marine Parade redevelopment proposal which also involves the eventual refurbishment of the old Marineland site into a multi-purpose recreational facility.
There was no exact time-frame for that work at this stage.