Milton Keynes BMX action

[Steve Shindig]

So I google-viewed the MK track and noticed that the amazing MK flood ditch thing was virtually next door?  Am I correct?  It looks like it from above.

Anyway, did anyone session this at last years MK meet?

[Bettyswallocks]

I got told last year it was nearby, asked a few peeps where it was and just got blank looks...

Someone on ere mentioned riding it last year... nosepickben i think... 

[SaMAlex]

Tim Ruck and his son went there to ride it about 3 weeks ago. They passed thro Oxford on their way.
They said they had a good time there.

[kingkeef]

What are you Lot talking about ......!!!!!
 

[SaMAlex]

The one near the track is the North side and its pretty Harsh. The South side it a bit mellower and better to ride.

Heres one of Tim Rucks Pics of the Southside ditch.

[Steve Shindig]

RAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SaMAlex]

Ive only been to the North one, back in the mid 80s, and from memory it was very high on one side, tight at the bottom and hard to ride. But I was only about 12 at the time!

Ive looked on the Google map and the North one is SO close to the track, Im gutted I didnt go the last few times I went to the track. I will deff go the next time im there. I cant find the South ditch on Gmaps tho?

[JT71]

is this the south ditch? north side of cladicote lake?

[laughinggravy]

yep, that's the one, room for a bar-b and a swim in the lake after!

[Robbo]

Nice, I'm in MK a lot so will have a look soon.

[pkradman]

yes its there ... i took my son and his mate to the MK track last saturday ... 

[fugazi]

Cross the main road from the track & you shall find 

[Mattdub]

Ive only been to the North one, back in the mid 80s, and from memory it was very high on one side, tight at the bottom and hard to ride. But I was only about 12 at the time!

Ive looked on the Google map and the North one is SO close to the track, Im gutted I didnt go the last few times I went to the track. I will deff go the next time im there. I cant find the South ditch on Gmaps tho?

I too rode the one near the track , in Bru's pic ^^^^^^ in 84/85/86 . It's pretty lairy , as Alex said high one side and low the other with if i remember correctly not much space at the bottom ! lol .

Joe , Caldicote lake is totally different place . Track is close to Willen lake . To get the Caldicote lake you go along Tongwell St ( outside track ) toward McD's/Tescos ( at Kingston ) , keep going past those then hang a right before you go straight over into housing estate ( Browns Wood or something ) . The road you've just hung right onto is bletcham way , follow it and that lake in pic you've posted is on the right .

 

If any of that makes sense ......... 

[JT71]

yeah but is that lake in my picture the location of the other, better to ride but not close to the track, drainage ditch?

I went to a drainage ditch with a skate board and a few decent skaters after a rave near MK once and we rode it, but i was a bit mashed so don't remember where it was....might not even have been MK.

 

[fugazi]

yeah but is that lake in my picture the location of the other, better to ride but not close to the track, drainage ditch?

I went to a drainage ditch with a skate board and a few decent skaters after a rave near MK once and we rode it, but i was a bit mashed so don't remember where it was....might not even have been MK.

 

Those kind of nights are the best 
I go past the one near the track a lot on my mtb (I live not too far from willen lake) & have ridden it a few times in the past, but it seems to get full of crap a lot more than it used to, as for the rounded off one, I think it is the Caldicote jobbie, there is also a few more in the various lakes & water runoffs round here, I'll have to go on a recon mission and get the info up for ditch riding radsters 

[subversion]

I'll have to go on a recon mission and get the info up for ditch riding radsters 

Masterplan dude lets get something organised & hit them ALL up

[subversion]

That would be cool, I'd be up for watching the last time I did jumping into water on bikes was in Oxford many years ago & I got quite ill afterwards with suspected leptospyrosis which turned out to be some other bug... John Pratt was coming up with some sick combos into the drink

I won the Lake Jumping comp @ the Malvern hills Classic in 1991.
1st Prize - a custom painted Etto helmet courtesy of Jo 'Mint Sauce' Burt:

[fugazi]

Well Tongwell lake across the way from me is a no go as it's covered in some brown stinkin' algae sh*te  I've noticed most of them around here very shallow edges, something to do with being man made? Although the "action sports" part of willen lake might be a go'er, I'll try and get round them all in the next week or 2 and get back to you all with what's rideable