2012 Mountain Bike Course

[Tallpaul]

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/e ... hape-28273

 

[REKIBorter]

Disappointing, just what I expected

 

[tintin40]

by the looks of the ground they wont need susser bikes.

 

[The Ken]

Not really mountain biking is it, this really is too smooth a surface (at the moment) and too short a track, real shame, I feel sorry for the designers having to work out something in such an artificial environment. There must be better locations near london, established or otherwise.

Money would have been better spent on a natural point to point route/loop with the change being put into setting up cable or helicopter cameras to give exciting coverage of the event.

 

[cchris2lou]

it costs £800 000 , they could have made a permanent trail centre .

 

[longun]

very disappointed,looks boring and about as challenging as having a shower!!!

cheers duke seb of lundun!

was gonna go down but reconsidering now :shock:

 

[Konaglider]

That's where the Teletubbies live, isn't it?

 

[JamesM]

And with a little bit of editing by me it reads:

"The London Organising Committee (LO COG) to provide a world-class course in the notoriously flat county of Essex"

 

[velomaniac]

Personally 'Oak Tree Drop' scares the bejeezus oot of me and thats just looking at the pics.

I reckon it can be made better as there is still lots of time. The climbs need roughing up a bit surface wise and a few more techy sections added but I reckon it has potential.

 

[redrabbitrun]

It is a lot better than it looks.