Anyone know why the old MTB track at Temple Newsam has been destroyed/flattened? The one by the running track.
Was riding to work this morning and took the fun route on the hardtail, but all the rollers, berms, lips and features have been flattened.
Got quite the suprise bombing into it and being met with a loose gravel flat turn rather than the old hard pack berm.
Bummer! I've not been up there for a while but used enjoy a blash on that.
Did tend to have dog walkers wandering around it quite a bit though, maybe someone had a close call and complained so they've flattened it.
Theres always the unnoficial bits in the woods down from Bullerthorpe Lane and down to the M1 underpass though.
It got flattened because people/kids/neds/diggers* wouldn't leave it alone. Over last summer, it ended up with more jumps dug around it, doubles added, despite the council posting notices saying "please don't". As a consequence, the whole lot got owned with bombers dropped with bulldozers
This is why we can't have nice things...
*delete as applicable
Yeah it's a shame, it was nice having a small but fun little track nearby.
I know the run you mean. That's still there, and the locals have been busy with some dirt jumps deeper into the woods, but they're quite steep and sendy.
Theres always the unnoficial bits in the woods down from Bullerthorpe Lane and down to the M1 underpass though.
Bullerthorpe Lane in Colton? Just started working there, would you mind PMing me some details?
Oooh, I didn't know there were illegal sendy bits in those woods.... I need to go and investigate
Its been a few months since I was there but didn't see any digging near the old MTB track last time I was there, so a shame if they've flattened that as a result of the other digging elsewhere.
The locals were pushing their luck with some of the jumps they built elsewhere and the gaps/doubles were not safe at all with the middles dug out and no case pads.
I remember seeing some frankly dangerous 'northshore' features near the single-track runs going down to the M1 underpass.
Oooh, I didn’t know there were illegal sendy bits in those woods…. I need to go and investigate
The single track run is on trailforks called 'secret singletrack'. There's other stuff around there too if you go exploring.
Most of it way too sendy for me.
@Droplinked - the track got dropped back in February, there'd been a load of doubles built to the left of the council-built stuff - including extending the edges of the first tabletop on the main line to created a long and very shonky double!. It wasn't related to the other bits around and about, it was all just left of the council-built track.
The other bit (secret singletrack)down from the fountain side of the house to the motorway tunnel is called Pegasus woods, if you find it, just wander deeper towards golf course to find the big stuff, it has been reduce, a couple of years back the gap jumps were huge.
Heard a rumour that the unused part of the golf course(2 x 18 hole courses) is earmarked as an official bike park
Bullerthorpe Lane in Colton? Just started working there, would you mind PMing me some details?
Basically there's an entrance into Temple Newsem off Bullerthorpe Lane. Just after the S bend. In the woods on the right of the path down there are various 'trails', all very cheeky footpaths. Hardly Whistler but can be fun if there aren't too many dog walkers.
Heard a rumour that the unused part of the golf course(2 x 18 hole courses) is earmarked as an official bike park
Heard it's more family cycling trails, rather than like Middleton.
cheers Ads, Will go check it out once my collarbone fixes itself back together!
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But yeah. But probably not that hardcore.
Yeah, the council plans appear to be blue and green family routes.
I read the consultation a while ago and the intention appears to provide something different to LUBP rather than replicate it.
It would be great if a decent pumptrack could be incorporated at least. Like the ones at Chopwell or Sutton Bank.
Since becoming a parent I know realise how few decent blue trails there are, so more of these please. With all the cheeky trails around these days there is no lack of challenging stuff.
