Sheffield Mountain Bike Trails Get Huge Investment

19 July 2016  |  

Plans for the “RADmires” mountain bike trail has been given a huge boost after Sheffield-local Vulcan Engineering pledged £22,500 towards the project.

The Lady Cannings trail

The Lady Cannings trail. Photo © Richard Baybutt Photography.

Yes, you heard right. Based right in the heart of Sheffield, Vulcan Engineering have pledged £22,500, half the money required to complete the RADmires trail. They heard about Lady Canning’s, the fact that it was crowd-funded and that Ride Sheffield were using the same method to fund the next project and decided we were a cause worth supporting.

Which means, ladies and gentlemen, that if we all raid the piggy bank and check down the back of the sofa, we will soon be in a position to seal the deal with Sheffield CC and the Peak District National Park. This really is an exciting project with the greater gradient in the Redmires Plantation ensuring that this will be a treat to ride. Dig deep people and we can start digging for real!

President of Ride Sheffield Henry Norman, in a guest blog for V-Publishing, said:

"On the back of the success of Lady Cannings, Ride Sheffield’s newest crowdfunded trail plans are for Redmires Plantation. Affectionately known as RADmires, it will be a descending trail in the woods, which run alongside the byway up to Stanage 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 fifty-per-cent longer than Lady Cannings Phase One, which opened earlier this summer.

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 opt-ins to keep things challenging for more advanced riders. The intention here is not only to 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 Stanage, Blacka Moor and Rivelin.

We are really looking forward to opening up another fantastic flowing trail to complement all the other great built and natural trails we already have in the Outdoor City. Started at the end of 2015, the support from riders has been fantastic so far and we have already crowd unded over £10,000. We still have a little way to go before we reach the £45,000 total that will enable us to add 2km of sweet singletrack to the city, so all donations are welcome!

For more about Ride Sheffield visit www.ridesheffield.org.uk

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