What can you say, this place has everything (except toilets, showers, etc.). If you love tree roots and rubbish and rocks cunningly hidden under leaves, then this is for you. Bart Wellens would have a cardiac arrest just walking the course. Scary stuff, but great fun. A chance to use all your well honed cross […]

A modern day classic. Several variations have been used on the same theme, a fast, close racing course. Used for the Macclesfield Wheelers event in October, and of course the well supported Supacross between Xmas and New Year, when the top riders are desperate to race before the National Champs, a week or so after. […]

Town centre park with a nice variety of terrain. The park holds a lot of water, and being on a hill, is inevitably wet and boggy on the lower slopes. Used for past three seasons, with slight alterations each time, still searching for perfection. Use of Bolton Lads & Girls club will offer a welcome […]

Something makes the venue feel special, being next door to the National Cycling Centre. The park is a fairly traditional medium-sized urban park with tarmac paths galore. These sound fast, but tend to be mossy (Manchester only has three dry days per year). The grass is the softer kind and borders on boggy on some […]

Is it possible to have more singletrack than Otterspool Park? Well – yes, frankly. There”s something sinister about the woods at Sherdly Park; tree roots lurk in unexpected places, mud-a-plenty, and just enough open space per lap for this to technically be called a cyclo-cross rather than a jungle exploration. Hard work passing people (or […]