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Hi all,
Local park has been earmarked for some upgrading & the group overseeing the work are asking for suggestions & input re. facilities - has anyone had any formal dealings with this sort of thing? I'd love to see a small-ish pumptrack going in but have no idea about the options / costs of installing one & any i've seen costed tend to go into the hundreds of thousands - anyone seen anything done well on the cheap?
Cheers!
get in touch with bike-track.com they have done a few local to me including leeds bike park and repairing grenoside etc.
Cheers will have a look - have seen a couple of the velosolutions ones which are nice, but i'm presuming will be on the spendier side of things, just wondering what other options there are
J
Look for grant funding from the likes of Sport England, Lottery etc.
I work for a local authority - there's tons of funding out there if you look. If it costs the council less or if you can fund via crowd funding or similar, they will be much more open. Get a local councillor on board too.
2 local to me (Ayr and Girvan) were around the 65k-75k mark IIRC, and they ain't very big tbh John.
As part of my job a few years back I had one put in. I had access to grant funding, but also applied for match-funding from a local waste/recycling company, who were keen to support anything remotely 'green'. What we had built was pretty good - about 20m x 20m, so not huge, but plenty of features and clever lines.
Getting a councillor onboard is key - without their support, it will be very hard work.
Cheers all, some food for thought there!
As I feared it looks like there would need to be a much bigger pot of cash to keep anyone completely happy - judging by recent suggestions the budget (which is looking pretty miserly now!) must facilitate a full upgrade to the kids' playpark, a concrete skate park a'la Kelvingrove, bike track, an outdoor covered area for the bored teenagers to smoke grass & drink cheap lager hang around in & one of those outdoor gyms...
Local councillor is a good one - might send my 3 year old round the existing bike obstacle-course wearing my go pro (the all-weather coating has now worn down to a beautiful polished-marble like finish...) & film the resulting tears / snotters for use as leverage, probably the best way to get anything done.
Cheers all!
Look at the Places to Ride fund from BC. Lowest I saw was 30k on a small refurb in the mids, highest expected was 350k for Fort Willian. I was working on high 00k to 150k for a reasonble local track. Archtrail seem to do some really good stuff and I think are the UK Velo people.
I've done a fair bit of work for a possible local track, happy to share. Drop me a note walkerdavidjames g...e.com