Officially opens 23rd June, though it is sign posted now and plenty of people have already ridden it.

Glad you enjoyed Smudge, official opening date is 23rd June, but its ready to ride for all now. 🙂

will be fine by its own if your riding solo.

The Exposure is a bargain, but can’t afford it this month.

Damn it, just bought one. lol

Bargains Galore

Matty, track runs up to the Right from the Car park, and finises in the same spot after the large table tops (approx 8 footer followed by the 10 footer)

No official opening date yet, if hear anything from the Cycling in Sandwell group i’ll post up here, if anyone is free on opening day be good for a little group ride.

Sorry for the lack of updates, been too busy and without my pc for a few weeks and tablets/phones just dont cut the mustard.

Will update with a few pics in a mo, but the track is looking good. Far too many people riding it early as most of the taped off sections have been unofficially removed by riders.

The rocky drop sections are nice and sure to be a challenge for some riders, apart from all the riding gods on here 😆

No, but wear what ever you want.

Cycle each day, only 8miles each way on the canal. Takes anything between 25 -35 minutes depending on the weather. Have some semi slicks for the summer and old non targets for the winter.

Cracking PSA, just missed it.

Will do, i’ll ping some pictures over too.

I have some excellent condition (just two small marked where brakes were clamped) Race Face Next carbon bars i’m selling if you don’t want to spend too much just on case you don’t get on with the wider bars.

685mm wide, 195g in weight, OS clamp.

Could do them for £35 posted.

Building some local trails.

Zoo is ok, accessible via the c-train. A thing to note with your bus tickets you get a free transfer onto another bus within the hour, so two buses for the price of one.

Calgary is a great city, visit the Olympic park which hosted the 86 Winter Olympics. Visit Sylvan lakes, Banff, lake Louise.

The botanical grades are called Devonian gardens and is free entry.

Nickhead is correct, all the work is currently now contracted to Biketrack, i was working with the original Cycling in Sandwell group to help lay the foundations before the contractors come in.

Cycling in sandwell will still need volunteers through, normally once a month as we will be completing the track repairs/maintenance.

Cheers

I will be up there this weekend, shall make some inquiries with regards to the pump track facility, the route maps are also being printed so will get a PDF of it up on here shortly too.

Had a walk of the track again last night, its coming along nicely, lots of table tops, lots of berms, nice rock drop off into a tight berm and even better the track is getting longer by the day.

I’ve got some pics of the pump track, will get them up in a few moments. I haven’t been involved with the pump track at all, done through different contacts. However i think it is associated with ‘closer to the edge’ and may be a paid for facility.

I hope i’m wrong though as i too want to ride it but can’t justify paying each time.

Double post

I’ll post the definite official opening date once the track has finished and bedded in, if the weather stays nice shouldn’t be too long away now.

Perhaps a group ride is in order?

This picture shows an example of how the Red (right) and Blue (left) join back up. Hopefully allow mixed ability riders to ride together and choose different lines and meet back up as well as allow for different loops to be strung together. We are also currently at 3km in length.

The course officially opens in 5 weeks and consist of blue/red and black lines, though take this with a pinch of salt as they can all be ridden by anyone at a slow pace.

So you will need to complete a few runs loops to tackle all the possible lines.

I will post pictures as an when work is completed, i’m going back over tomorrow and working there on Sunday.

The above image is a short uphill climb but there are downhill sections too.

I know the decent via the golf course your talking about, i have crafted a few drops/jumps over in the priory woods by the ice pool too.

Sandwell is pretty much the only place i can ride from my door step so happy to help building the trails there.

Some more work done today

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That’s not much hardcore for 850 grand.

First layer only when down this weekend, another few weeks of work to commence yet.

The Jubilee woods areas does get a few late night visitors, i know i’ve startled a fair number of them.

Its one of the reason why the track as been built in this area to try and discourage the other visitors of the night.

Parts of the mountain mayhem loop are still present, in fact most of the new stuff is on the same grounds as the original mayhem course designed by 9feetunder.

This is located in Jubilee woods, near car park is at the Forge Mill/Swan pool entrance.

haha at the field of doom i know what you mean, and yes for some reason is does seem extraordinarily hard to pedal across.

See here

Sandwell

Will officially open in five weeks.

Bit of a bump, first stage of surfacing the trails commenced this week.

Will officially be open a ready to ride in 5 weeks (weather dependent)

A few pics below

Dropper

Shared, every man and his dog needs to see this

Looks fun, time to take the camera out tomorrow, bi hard with a touch screen phone.

Cross threaded the bottom bracket on my carbon frame

Without this turning into a willy waving thread, your resting HR is not that low. If worried, go to your GP

^^^^ Was thinking that too

Will get it in the post for you asap.

Cheers

Kevlar pads have been great in my tech m4s

Duane, is the guide still wanted? I can post tomorrow so hopefully you’ll have it Friday if you can pay via paypal tonight.

Cheers

you posted about advice for me using a mech as a guide, I was meant to say not sure what you mean. as I haven’t mentioned anything about a mech. I am typing in my phone so apologies for bad spelling/grammar

no, I merely offered to sell my top guide to the OP. I haven’t mentioned the possibility of using a mech as a guide.