Short new mtb course near Whitefield/Prestwich (Manchester)

[Parrot of Doom]

About 2.5km long when its finished. Not exactly Red grade, but fun all the same, and there are loads of existing technical challenges in that area, so it should be fantastic once finished.

Location:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnea...

There are loads of decent cycling tracks around there. If anyone wants a guided tour one day, let me know, I go up there all the time.

Edited by Parrot of Doom on Tuesday 16th March 16:59

[Roman]

Looks good - Would you be free one Saturday? I'm finding the Trans Pennine trail rather dull..

[Parrot of Doom]

I'll almost certainly be down there this weekend. This is the short version of the route I usually take:

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Ringley-Clift...

...but on the weekend I'll go south as far as Agecroft Road, before turning back and playing around in Philips Park, crossing the motorway, and faffing around near Copper Lane. There is a lot of climbing...

[Roman]

Parrot of Doom said:

I'll almost certainly be down there this weekend. This is the short version of the route I usually take:

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Ringley-Clift...

...but on the weekend I'll go south as far as Agecroft Road, before turning back and playing around in Philips Park, crossing the motorway, and faffing around near Copper Lane. There is a lot of climbing...

Cool. PM'd you but not sure if you got it?

[Parrot of Doom]

More bits added:









First curve looking up, to give a sense of scale:



At the bottom (although theres another curve out of shot on the left) looking up:

[Roman]

Looks great!

Think I may need to fit some new pads for tommorrow..

[mackie1]

Looks quite wide, which is good! I find the single track (not purpose built) round here a little too narrow and technical, but then I'm a big lump.

[Roman]

P.O.D. - Thanks for showing me around the trails on Saturday mate.

Had a great time and what fantastic trails just North of Manchester. I'm amazed they're not more popular as they're so much more interesting than the trans-Pennine trail yet it took me under 20mins to get there from South Manchester!

Highly recommended.

[Parrot of Doom]

There are loads more I didn't take you around mate There's a fantastic bit of trail leading from Glenmere Close at J17 down to Philips Park, here

There's also a rather neat fast windy track here

Basically the area is littered with stuff like this. There's loads of technical stuff in here

You can easily spend 4 hours messing around

[Stumpysid]

Hi Parrot,

Have not been down there for quite a while until today, then I have seen this when I get back.

Ususally go through the clough then onto the arches and over the M60 upto Radcliffe and back. Passed the little downhill you have photo's which was quite enjoyable, just need to get exploring now.

Not sure if I passed you this morning as I was heading back towards the arches from radcliffe, the bike in the picture looks similar.

Will have to explore a bit further from some of the links you have given above.

Chris

[B1G GK]

What would be the best way of accessing this place from say Heaton Park way, I will be cycling over from Oldham,
Or is there anywhere safe enough to dump the car?
I am off from Thurs this week so I will come down for a play.

[Parrot of Doom]

Either from here:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnea...

or here:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnea...

(where the red van is)