Redditch Premiers: Play Track Visit

As previously mentioned, some of the R.P. members went to Bishops Tachbrook, near Leamington Spa yesterday. We went to check out the new play track, (on the Bishops Tachbrook playing fields), designed and built by Jason Carpenter, from Dragon Downhill. It was a beautiful morning and the sight of the crisp edged jumps, after the 45 minute journey, was great. There was already one rider, Alec at the scene, from local club RLS4X, (we were later joined by a whole posse of riders from the club:-).

The first straight is a really tighlty packed rhythm section, finished off with a neat left hand berm. The berm then switches to the right and left again in a really tight, (and rather uncomfortable) way :-S . The berm then goes right again, leading into the second straight; this has some more triples before going onto three sets of doubles, of about a metre and a half in height.

It was alot of fun to ride. I particularly enjoyed the first straight and soon found myself triple manualling, in places, on every run,( a real achievement for me). However I did find it difficult to generate enough speed to jump all of the doubles on the second straight; Alec and my team mate Tim Drew, showed that it could be done though... The other RLS4X riders seemed to enjoy the track and it was great when everybody was on the track, snaking their way, over the obstacles in a train formation.

Overall, it was great fun to ride and it gave my knees a real workout. The parish councillors who made this happen were thrilled that so many people had turned up on it's inaugral weekend. Congratulations to all of them, the local kids are lucky to have such facilities on their door step. I'm sure a few more BMX's and MTB's will be on Santas list this year! Can't wait to go there again soon.
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