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freehub
Joined: 25 May 2009
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 Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 9:25 am |
Hi.
Just wondered if Heaton Park in Manchester is sort of like Manchesters richmond park? :p Is the park suitable for doing training around, maybe 5 or so laps or something? If so does anyone ride around this park?
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Fungus The Muffin Man
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Location: Heywood ,Lancs
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 10:29 am |
No its not big enough ( cycling path wise), to busy with kids running all over the place. I'd give it a miss. I live just round the corner from it and whilst it is quite hilly you'd spend to much time trying to miss people to get into any kind of zone.
which is a real shame being the biggest council owned park in europe or what ever it is.
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freehub
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Fungus The Muffin Man
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brownleather
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:18 pm |
| freehub wrote: | Shame 
Wish there was something like richmond park round here would make riding so much better. |
Tatton Park
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freehub
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:30 pm |
That's no good, it's just a road through it, you can't do laps, and it's far away.
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tim000
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 11:16 pm |
plus tatton park has loads of cars going along the road. you see more cars there than on most of the country lanes in cheshire.
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freehub
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Bhima
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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Location: Manchester
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 5:59 pm |
Chorlton Water Park mate!
It's exactly 1 mile round.
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=25444
You do get a lot of runners, so it'll be hit and miss weather or not it's clear. Lots of room for overtaking though.
It's gravel-ish, but less harsh than the gravel bit at Tatton park.
Have you ever gone round the lake at Platt-fields park? There's a few fixed-gear circuit races round there sometimes. It's pretty fast.
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Old Tuggo
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Posted Mon Nov 9, 2009 7:10 pm |
| Fungus The Muffin Man wrote: | | freehub wrote: | Shame
Wish there was something like richmond park round here would make riding so much better. |
Yeah Heaton park would be superb as its bloody HUGE! even if all they did was make one big cycle path loop going all the way around the edge of it. It would be a bloody good circuit as its quite a hilly park.
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I remember there many years ago (about 50) Manchester had an Italian Week and a number of top Italian riders came over to compete in a many lapped race around Heaton Park. I think it was won by Ziilioli. I also rode a few races there and won a prime that turned out to be a faded pair of socks donated by a local bike shop.
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AndyRubio
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sportbilly1976
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Posted Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:41 pm |
Bhima,
I would not recommend Chorlton water park as it is used primarily as a jogging route and also for families to take kids / dogs for a walk.
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, wheelers did a chaingang through it some months back.
