Mark W Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 Ahoy. Might be moving there. All up in the air. Anyway, wanted to know (as it'll help decide if I do - GO PRIORITIES!) what it's like for riding, for both trials and BMX? Thanks for any help and just any info about MK itself, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich4130 Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 Mark, I live within about 10 miles, riding wise its 'ok'. I always think its alot different to everywhere else, because the whole place is only 35 years old, in the centre of MK everything is the same really, marble blocks cover a lot of the area. Theres the bus station, which has two ledges about bar height and the 'bin gap', also a street skatepark thing, but thats pretty poor. I don't actually go there that often, only been there riding 4/5 times, its ok, theres many areas that I've not ridden, a few friendly locals, and its close to bedford/luton, and theres riders there. Theres also local towns (MK was built basically on these towns, so there very close) Bletchly is meant to be ok. Check out the Fluid23 Video with Edd + Matt Tongue in, that was all filmed there, and also Fluid23 Vids 1 & 2. Bits of the new glasseye DVD seem to have been filed there (where Tim P manuals a rail, and the Phil Feeney clip with the crank flip, thats the bus station. I wouldn't say It was amazing, but it has good transport links to london/oxford etc. Locals who live there will have a much better idea than me, I'm sure Steve or somebody who know it well will be able to tell you more. The BMX side of things im not sure about, there plenty of dirty street I suppose, but it all looks the same to be (marble ledges) and I'm not sure about skateparks, there was talk of one being built in the centre of MK, dunno if it ever happened, there was Radlands in Northhampton, not 100% on it still being open.. Hope to see you soon.... :blink: Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalf the Yellow Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 living there and riding there almost weekend i can almost say im quite sick of this place, as rich said, most places are the same marble ledges which does not vary, only some occasions from different designs of buildings around the area.. there are quite of a few spots if you do look around carefully..... but they ain't concentrated in 1 place so it means a lot of riding around although its normally about 2-3 mins ride from spot to spot. trials wise i can say its OK, but only just, i have been to london before which is woohoo much better, maybe its just a change of location. but not a lot of good lines you can find around in MK... although bletchley has much more lines you can find about, so its actually a better place to ride-high street, skatepark, 2 industrial estates... bmx wise there's the skatepark (creativity street) sort of park so no ramps just loads of ledges.... train station is a big flatland area with few big slopes so if you're a bit of a flatlander then thats a very good place to ride, ledges to grind/feebal do whatever, and i've seen people using the big slopes as ramps if you get enough speeds to do tabletops/tailwhip etc (any air moves really...) there's also a newly built tiny skatepark in a place call 'oldbrook' which is only 4 mins ride from bus station...has a halfpipe and tiny little ramps, but its the closest rampy skatepark to the CMK area. hope i've helped. steve :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 From a bedford riders opinion, NO! There is a limited amount of street in mk and NO natural to be found in the surronding areas. Its not really that great, however they have recently built a skate park in the bus station (but its a pretty weak attempt at a park) Bedford has a lot of street riding for its size and its only a short train journey ,I say alot but not compared to Bristol, Swindon, London etc.. Im not 100% about all the surronding areas but St albans has alot of riding mainly a college I found. There are good transport links to London etc... and MK is pretty much flanked by the A1 and the M1 Steve, [stinkee] will be able to tell you much more info as he is a MK local :blink: thanks, Will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trialsriderjim Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 i live near mk in northampton.The riding in mk is good but i'm sick of it.i ride northampton and mk alot there good if you don't go there every day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalf the Yellow Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 other info you might want to know about MK.... it has a rather large city centre, most offices and shops contained there, it is actually quite a big area, you wouldn't want to try walking about in there... and depending which area you're going to be living in, there's always a 'local centre' lying about, there's normally 1 local centre to share between 2-3 estates. then there's a few outskirts shopping centres like westcroft, kingston etc. they are currently building a newwwwwww and biggggggggg football stadium for the MK team i don't even know what they're called.... and next to that will lay the UK's biggest ASDA and IKEA... i think. lots of roundabouts.... transport: lots of roundabout...close to M1, A5, A421 etc.. for bikes....there's things called redways which is specified for pedestrians and cyclists, it has a good link to pretty much everywhere in MK, which is good. bus....depending where you live you get different bus services due the different demands etc, but a few demanding routes has loads of buses, like 15mins per bus, other less demanding are down to 20mins, 30 mins or 1hr per bus. there's coachways, and bus station and train station which you can get trains to london or birmingham, coaches to many many places like nottingham, london, X5 to cambridge and oxford.... bikeshops: only a few in the whole area, the latest being evans cycles in xscape building where im going to be going to work in, 1 halfords near train station, 1 halfords in bletchley, 1 dodgy crap 1 in shenley brook end local centre, phil corleys cycles in stacey bushes. securities: most are twats, but there's some friendly ones who doesn't really care when you're riding. police are definately very very friendly, they actually ask you to show them some 'tricks' (Y) not 1 of them i've met had tried arresting me or trying to accuse me of damaging the area. entertainment: mainly located round CMK area, its very boring indeed. hope i've helped again.. steve :blink: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Quinn Posted July 22, 2005 Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 Not too sure on the trials situation but BMXwise it's brilliant if you're partial to a bit of dirt. Woburn sands very near, if you ride any dirt you'll probably of heard of it, if not just google it, amazing place. Mk also has a BMX race track which looks fun to mess around on. I've also heard the streets amazing by many people but from the comments above i guess not. As others have said though there's easy london access. :- Max Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 Hey all, Cheers for all the info, but I don't think I'll go to MK then judging from the reviews. Just sorta sounds a bit similar to here, really... Yeah, heard of Woburn by the way - seen pics too; pretty mental! Thanks for all the info again :- Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will Posted July 22, 2005 Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 (edited) Yeah there are lots of trails round here though! Woburn, Chicky's, Aston hill and lots of other local jump spots et cetera... are all fairly easy to find aswell as being within a quite short driving distance. Edited July 22, 2005 by will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 Maybe, but I'm leaning towards Chester more now... I've got family near there, there seems to be quite a few jobs going around there, they've got the awesome Boneyard and Bones skateparks super close to Chester, and there are loads of other good parks nearby too... Once again - thanks for the info all the same! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipsy Jock Posted July 23, 2005 Report Share Posted July 23, 2005 Maybe, but I'm leaning towards Chester more now... I've got family near there, there seems to be quite a few jobs going around there, they've got the awesome Boneyard and Bones skateparks super close to Chester, and there are loads of other good parks nearby too... Once again - thanks for the info all the same! ← Chesters a great city, plus its very close to the whole north wales scene. (N)" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2005 Wow, so Craig can lie to me and try to get me believe my frame is cracked in PERSON now. Joy. Anyway, yeah, I'm supposed to be sending my CV to one shop there, and I'm going there next week (Hopefully...) to scope it all out (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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