Description
Buck Woods Urban Skills Spot is a dirt skills track in Buck Wood, Thackley, on the edge of Bradford. It has a large oval of tabletops, doubles and drops for beginner to advanced riders, plus a hand-built pump track. It is free to ride, and on Google Maps it is listed as Buck Woods Bike Skills Track.
The Track
The main feature is a large oval of dirt jumps, tabletops and doubles rather than big flip-style jumps, with the lines graded from beginner to advanced so you can build up as you lap. A hand-built pump track sits alongside, and because the surrounding Calverley, Esholt and Buck Woods are all on the doorstep, it also makes a good start point for a non-waymarked cross-country ride with a play on the way.
The features are dirt, so they change with the weather and with the volunteers who dig and tweak them.
Who Looks After It
The track came out of a Bradford Council project driven by the Friends of Buck Woods Society and Crosstrax, and was designed and built with local riders by volunteers from SingletrAction, a Yorkshire trail-building group. SingletrAction work with Bradford Council to look after it, and welcome new members, whose fees go back into trails and projects like this one.
Also Nearby
For BMX racing, Bradford BMX Track in Peel Park is the home of Bradford Bandits BMX Racing Club.
Getting Here
The wood is just off the A657 Leeds Road in Thackley, near Thackley Football Club. Turn down Thackley Road, then bear right down Ainsbury Avenue and look for a wide gate on your left where the wooded area starts. The track is a short way into the wood. Friends of Buck Wood work parties meet at the green container by the main entrance.
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