Heaton Park?

freehub

Hi.

Just wondered if Heaton Park in Manchester is sort of like Manchesters richmond park? Is the park suitable for doing training around, maybe 5 or so laps or something? If so does anyone ride around this park?

fungus_the_muffin_man

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.

freehub

Shame

Wish there was something like richmond park round here would make riding so much better.

fungus_the_muffin_man

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.
They've just spent a fortune making it return back to its original plan :roll:

brownleather

freehub wrote:

Shame

Wish there was something like richmond park round here would make riding so much better.

Tatton Park

freehub

That's no good, it's just a road through it, you can't do laps, and it's far away.

tim000

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.

freehub

Well I do like going through tatton park with a good tailwind, halfway through it you can get a good 35+mph , wheelers did a chaingang through it some months back.

Bhima

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.

Old Tuggo

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.
They've just spent a fortune making it return back to its original plan :roll:

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.

AndyRubio

M60?

sportbilly1976

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.