Havok Bike Park 2.0 – Very Open For Business

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The UK’s newest bike park is now open. The original Havok Bike Park closed in November 2021 following severe storm damage and was then permanently closed by the landowner.

Havok has now moved across onto the sunnier side of the valley directly opposite the old park. Havok Bike Park 2.0 comprises three tracks are fully built with a promise of many more to come.

The park opened over the Bank Holiday weekend and was granted amazingly buff – dusty! – conditions and happy vibes.

Trails

Havok Bike Park currently has three tracks graded blue, red and black. There are plans to add in four more top to bottom tracks and dirt jumps in the near future.

Credit: Richard Baybutt, Cotic Bikes

The Blue: Jammy Lasagna

Our blue track is a super flowy, fully rollable crowd pleaser with lots of options for riding it your own way. It includes a rhythm section and some red options.

The Red: Savage Cabbage

Our red track is like our old favorite Homegrown Lettuce, but gnarlier. Mostly rollable track with some fast turns through the trees and optional mid size features.

The Black: Sun Dried Mum

We all know a sun-dried mum, they can get crispy. The black is an exposed ridgeline, tight and twisty with a decent sized hip at the bottom.

Credit: Sam Gibbons, Cycle Factory, Todmorden

Pricing

Annual Membership

  • Over 18 £80 / Ebike £150
  • Under 18s £60 / Ebike £110

Day Rates

  • Over 18s £12 / Ebike £22
  • Under 18s £10 / Ebikes £20

Membership grants 7 days a week access to the park and a 10% discount on uplifts once we are ready to operate – we’re aiming for September 2023. All payments to be made via cash or card on the day.

Location and Contact:

Portsmouth Mill, Station Parade, Portsmouth, Todmorden OL14 8PU

havokbikeparkcic@gmail.com / havokbikepark.co.uk

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  • This topic has 19 replies, 18 voices, and was last updated 1 year ago by tjaard.
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  • Havok Bike Park 2.0 – Very Open For Business
  • tmays
    Free Member

    Interesting that e-bikes are almost twice the price for entry. It’s obviously not the ideal place to take an e-bike, but at the same time I don’t see that they’d create twice the damage to the trails. Am I missing something? Seem like they’re limiting their potential income right when you’d have thought they need to do the opposite.

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    Mark
    Full Member

    With no uplift you would easily get twice as many runs in on an ebike. Seems logical to charge more.

    tmays
    Free Member

    But that means they’re not using the uplift, which would free it up for others (non e-bikes). Do other bike parks charge per run?

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    nixie
    Full Member

    No uplift just yet so ebikes are going to doing more runs.

    Mackem
    Full Member

    How long are the various trails?

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    “compromises”?

    chipps
    Full Member

    FTFY @slowoldman :-)

    Gribs
    Full Member

    Opening times would be handy.

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    robertajobb
    Full Member

    More Power (= ^2 damage) through the back wheel.
    More mass (= more damage)
    More runs (= More damage).

    Should be treble not double !

    duncancallum
    Full Member

    More mass is debatable…

    I ride with folk who on an ebike are way under me on my enduro buke weight wise.

    However faster ups = more runs. That’s maths n you cant **** with maths

    daveylad
    Free Member

    As an ebike rider who rides these sort of bikeparks that charge more, I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it.
    Yes I get up to 3x more runs in a few hours compared to if I pushed an analogue up before I’m exhausted.
    But younger riders will spend all day there and push up just as many times over a longer time period than I do on the eeb.
    Maybe it should be a price per run.

    mrchrist
    Full Member

    The old park looked nuts and amazing.

    kimbers
    Full Member

    More torque, more weight, more runs (on average) all adds up to more trail wear

    Maybe there’s also an element of – if you can afford an ebike you’ve got more disposable £?

    Anyway park looks great

    doomanic
    Full Member

    What about SL eBikes then? There’s no way you’ll get as many runs on one of those.

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    zilog6128
    Full Member

    But younger riders will spend all day there and push up just as many times over a longer time period than I do on the eeb.
    Maybe it should be a price per run.

    nah. Let the younger/fitter “earn” their runs. This is good means-testing. If you can afford an e-bike, you can afford to pay more to support the place 😀 (obviously, you’ll be buying more cake at the caff too 😂)

    doomanic
    Full Member

    If you can afford an e-bike, you can afford to pay more to support the place

    After spending all that money on eco-transport we’re all skint and should get a discount for helping the planet. 😁

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    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    More bike parks like this within pedalling distance of towns is a Good Thing. 👍

    kelvin
    Full Member

    Yeah, I rode up there on Sunday… no car, no hassle.

    tjaard
    Full Member

    It looks like a beautiful area. This is the home of Singletrack right?
    Happy for you geta park back in the local area again. Also nice to have those machine built trails, since it seems like most of the other local riding is historic travel routes.
    It’s nice to have variety.

    Good luck to the park!

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