New Trails – Redmires, Sheffield
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Some awesome news coming out of Sheffield, the ‘Steel City’ (where it’s all happening at the moment – see our Cotic Rocket 650b review) as Ride Sheffield have secured permission to develop another new mountain bike trail after the success of the popular Lady Cannings track near Hathersage.
Cy Turner, of Ride Sheffield gave us the low down on the details:
It’s official! At last nights’ Ride Sheffield 5th Birthday Meeting, we announced our latest Crowd Funder:
RADmires
After the massive success of Lady Cannings we are at it again, this time at Redmires, which sits between Stannage Edge and Sheffield City.
The location of the proposed new trails at Redmires
First a little recap of what Ride Sheffield achieved at Lady Cannings:
- First and currently only crowd funded mountain bike trail in the UK, possibly the world
- First dedicated mountain bike trail to be built in the Peak District National Park
- Over 14,000 runs down in 14 weeks since it opened on Strava alone
- £75,000 raised between crowd funding, local business donations and Go Outdoors major contribution to complete Phase 1 and the additional trails to be built in 2016
And, in case you missed it, here’s the video from the Lady Cannings launch: https://vimeo.com/133645766
Lady Cannings Phase 1, Photo – Richard Baybutt
Our great ally Jon Dallow at Sheffield City Council has given us the green light to build a descending trail in the woods which run alongside the byway up to Stannage Pole from Redmires Road. It will enter the woods at the top corner just below the existing gate in the byway, and descend 1.8km down to Redmires Road. This is 50% longer than Lady Cannings Phase 1 opened earlier this summer.
The Biketrack trail builders (www.biketrack.org) have been up there and are very excited about the possibilities, and the quality of the material on site. Design will be similar to Lady Cannings; Blue grade flow trail in that signature “the faster you go the tougher it is” style which makes that trail so much fun, yet so accessible to all abilities. The added interest this time is that there are some land features and gradients available in the woods which will allow some red/black (grade TBC once built and assessed) opt ins to keep things really interesting for more advanced riders. The intention here is to not only add another brilliant link to our trail network, but also add some progression. As new riders enjoy and develop their skills at Lady Cannings, RADmires aims to up the intensity a little to act as a bridge between Lady Cannings and some of the jumpier, faster, more featured trails over at Greno, and the rockier, steeper, more technical trails around Stannage, Blacka Moor and Rivelin.
Bottom line is that we need £45,000 to make this happen. If we get the money flowing in soon we will be using it to get planning permission and full design complete so that it will be open Summer 2017. We already made £1250 at the event last night, so we’re on our way!
So, get your hands in your pockets and chip in:
Ride Sheffield Bank Details:
40-31-02
91574205
Or you can donate via Paypal. The address for Paypal payments is:
You know how amazing Lady Cannings is. You know that we can make this happen with the money behind us. You just KNOW RADmires is going to be, well, RAD!! So, get involved, raise some money, give some money, hassle your boss to put some company money into a great community project. So long as it’s legally obtained, we don’t really care where it comes from, JUST GIVE US YOUR MONEY!!!!
Those details again:
Ride Sheffield Bank Details:
40-31-02
91574205
PAYPAL: ridesheffield@gmail.com
Did I mention you need to GIVE US YOUR MONEY?
Best Regards,
Cy Turner
Ride Sheffield
Get involved at http://www.ridesheffield.org.uk
Tue 8th Dec, 2015 @ 6:30 pm
