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 […]