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Jon · **Posts:** 3602

May as well get a thread going for updates on this as well.. there was some mutterings about it being tendered for last year and looks like Rowan Sorrell together with the Back on Track trail team have got something going

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Sorrell told us this morning that the Gethin Woods gravity park will be open by at least December 2013 and will include a visitor centre, a ton of downhill trails, singletrack and cross country trails, as well as an uplift service. Our vision is for a truly world class gravity bike park.

http://dirt.mpora.com/news/bike-park-wa ... entre.html

http://dirt.mpora.com/news/south-wales- ... epark.html

Eccles · **Posts:** 1166

Yeah heard about this last year. Not far from where my brother lives (Cardiff). Rowan Sorrell also designed the Gorlech trail at Brechfa, which I rode at Christmas and was pretty good, even in the pouring rain.

Jon · **Posts:** 3602

Planning permission granted

http://wideopenmag.co.uk/news/16259/pla ... park-wales
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bikepark ... 4540047704

Jon · **Posts:** 3602

Work beginning this month

http://www.cognation.co.uk/trails/gethin-woods
http://laurenjenkinsjournalist.wordpres ... p-in-2013/

Trails open in September!

Sweet

chatman · **Posts:** 2755 **Location:** Riding my bike somewhere

All these places being built up faster than they can do the one on our doorstep, namely hadleigh Olympic track... :-|

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Eccles · **Posts:** 1166

To be fair, this is forest commission land, as are most of the trail centres in Wales and they're now pretty good at developing the land for other uses apart from logging and walking. The Olympic track involves a council with little on no experience in this sort of thing, the Salvation Army and probably a load more red tape.

chatman · **Posts:** 2755 **Location:** Riding my bike somewhere

Well why we wait until 2014 for the local one... we can get loads of use outa the Welsh ones in the mean time :lol:

:lol::lol:

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Jon · **Posts:** 3602

Hey Eccles - any maps or info on the tracks that they will be building other than what Ive found?

Eccles · **Posts:** 1166

I will have to ask my brother, he rides around Cardiff all the time as he lives there (lucky git) and rides with the guys from http://www.muddybumbikes.com/ so they may know more.

Eccles · **Posts:** 1166

http://www.pinkbike.com/u/WDCCUTS/blog/ ... -Park.html

Planning application: http://publicaccess.merthyr.gov.uk/onli ... X2HKQ2G000

luvinit · **Posts:** 1330 **Location:** braintree , and leytonstone

Looks promising.....by the time its done i should be confident enough to ride the bloody things ...fingers crossed.

Jon · **Posts:** 3602

Eccles wrote:

http://www.pinkbike.com/u/WDCCUTS/blog/A-New-Beginning-Gethin-Bike-Park.html

Planning application: http://publicaccess.merthyr.gov.uk/onli ... X2HKQ2G000

Cheers Eccles - that PinkBike update is great. Stuff like this looks like it has a lot of promise and good to see plant on site.

Jon · **Posts:** 3602

Nice

http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/news/artic ... =BRMTBNEWS

wonkle · **Posts:** 228 **Location:** stansted

Looking good my parents living in Swansea is a good base for all this as I also have Afan, Kilvey hill & Clyne (which includes moos trails and some freeridey stuff) and then can get to cwmcarn.
So soon I can add this to my list

Jon · **Posts:** 3602

Kicking off building... whoop!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bikepark- ... ref=stream

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