Anyone up for building / riding trails in Wigan (Bickershaw) WN2?

[Hellcat]

1st Post.

Old(skool) BMXer back on it. Back from the 80's days of Burners & BMX Action Bike.

Near me in Wigan WN2 / Bickershaw there's miles & miles of old colliery land / slag heaps crying out for mad jumps.

Anyone up for it? Seriously, I'm gonna be out there digging & jumping this summer.

You can walk / bike for hours & not see anyone. MX riders go up there occasionally at the weekends, but it's a very sick spot, as it is just to thrash around. Hills, drops & bumps. Google map 'Bickershaw' & it's the area between Smith's Lane / Fir Tree Flash / Plank Lane.

A few spades & bodies & we could build something mega.

 

C'mon people. Miles & miles...

[Betty]

There's some trails next to the racecourse at Ashton

[Hellcat]

There's some trails next to the racecourse at Ashton

Thanks, will have a look. Near Haydock Race Course you do you mean?

[Jt]

You mean where lofty's used to be?

Ace up there.

Used to go up there when I was about 13.

[Betty]

There's some trails next to the racecourse at Ashton

Thanks, will have a look. Near Haydock Race Course you do you mean?

Pm'd you dude  

Found a couple of pics...

Bout 3 years ago... 

You mean where lofty's used to be?

Sorry JT i've no idea what you mean?

[Hellcat]

Cheers. Looks sweet.

Will be having a look this week.

[HARODAVE]

those trails are still there , i live in leigh , and have been to ride them a year or two ago scary as fook they are , just got myself a newschool bike and i really fancy going to the next RadBMXnight at the park in preston ...... just all us old fools wobbling about 

[Hellcat]

Dave, check Bickeshaw out. I live just up the road in Hindley Green (near Tamar pub), so hit me up & we can crash together...

Bickershaw Slag Heaps gonna be my Kevin Kostner's 'Field Of Dreams', just real & with a lot more air. Is such a mental, untapped large spot, can't believe know one's done it before...

[Hellcat]

You mean where lofty's used to be?

Ace up there.

Used to go up there when I was about 13.

J.T. Not sure, dunno if Lofty's was by Pennigton Flash, other side of the canal. That was ace. That's all nature park landscaped now.

Bickershaw Slag Heaps or 'NECROPOLIS' as I'm gonna call it from now on is about 50 times the size.

[Jt]

Thems the ones. Plank lane end,. Built by lofty and prec et al, early bmx adopters from the area...they all rode rippers from memory.

[Hellcat]

Yeah. Used to ride up there quite often. Til somone dug out nearly all the jumps, turned sweet tabletops into unrideable jagged-impale-yourself whoops that you wouldn't go near unless you deffo knew you would clear em.

Heard a few stories of 'the big boys' saying 'Let's have go on your bike', them coming back half an hour d later having swapped any parts that were better than there's, never experienced it, but heard a few stories.

If you're still local & interested in my Bickershaw Slag Heaps / NECROPOLIS project lemme know. Even just to ride or thrash about it as it is. It's sweet I tells ya.