I'm oop north at the moment, well it's probably the midlands actually. Cheshire to be exact, I dunno, it's where they talk different. Anyway I'm on a training course so i'm in a hotel for a couple of days, living like Alan Partridge, although I haven't made friends with any geordie barmen yet. Anyway, I took my bike because I was planning to go to Warrington which has a load of concrete bowls, but it tuns out it's further than I thought, and it rained a bit today so it might have been a wasted journey. I did an interweb search on something called Google, it's a 'search engine', you probably haven't heard of it, it's pretty hi-tech. Anyway I searched for BMX stuff here in Cheshire and I came across this brand new track they built, somewhat in preparation for 2012 olympics (for training) but I guess more just for kids to do something good. Now I used to ride at Farnham BMX track years ago, and back then it was one of the best in the country, quite steep and lots of jumps instead of rollers. i turned up here (on gate practice night) and was A) pretty amazed at just how dialled and actually well built this place is,and B) even a bit scared because the doubles all have really steep lips compared to what used to be (I was never a racer or anything, but I rode a fair few tracks. Maybe i'm just getting old and scared. I seem to remember being quite fit but I was sweating like Jeremy Beadle in a glove shop after 3 times round. I didn't need to peddle, I still got the pump! Some of the kids were pretty much going as fast as you could go, it was cool. I love how kids/people in general who race are a totally different breed of BMXer. No flashy shit, usually in trackies, poles apart from the fash skatepark twats we see all too much of.
I love watching racing and can't wait to see it in the olympics. Go here
http://cheshireghostriders.blogspot.com/ to see their website.
There is a small skate plaza behind it too to keep the wood pushers happy. Pay a visit if you're passing through, it's in Tipkinder Park on Victoria Ave in Crewe.
