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

[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...

[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:

[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

[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)