Olympic standard XC Course (or not?)
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:22 pm
So when the organisers won the Olympics and they had to choose a location to show off Britain's best MTB terrain where did they choose?
Hadleigh Farm, or Hadleigh Castle as I used to know it as I grew up just down the road. When it was annouced me and few others replied in a chorus of 'You what??' (an Essex phrase meaning 'Eyup you must be joking') because we were struggling to think of a hill there let alone 'Mountain'. The organisers could have chosen any number of picturesque hills around the Weald of Kent, the Chilterns or even the South Downs which is awesome in the Summer.
Anyway judge for yourself the results. Looks like a ride around a Garden Centre to me though and makes even Castle Howard look like the Alps.
http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/arti ... hts-29728/
Next up - Winter Olympics on the Norfolk Broads.
Hadleigh Farm, or Hadleigh Castle as I used to know it as I grew up just down the road. When it was annouced me and few others replied in a chorus of 'You what??' (an Essex phrase meaning 'Eyup you must be joking') because we were struggling to think of a hill there let alone 'Mountain'. The organisers could have chosen any number of picturesque hills around the Weald of Kent, the Chilterns or even the South Downs which is awesome in the Summer.
Anyway judge for yourself the results. Looks like a ride around a Garden Centre to me though and makes even Castle Howard look like the Alps.
http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/arti ... hts-29728/
Next up - Winter Olympics on the Norfolk Broads.