Loading news…
Bucknell Downhill Track
Avg 3.38
Grin Factor
Trail Variety
Skills
Trail Quality
General Setup
Number of Reviews (1)

*You can claim this trail if you are the trail owner

  • Information:
  • Type: MTB Base
  • Grades: Orange,Ungraded
  • Distance(s): Under 5km
  • Country: England
  • County: Shropshire
  • Website: Bucknell Downhill
  • Facebook:
  • Instagram:
  • Twitter:

Trail Network & Rider Segments

Live Strava segments around this trail.

Tracks Nearby

Not loaded yetOpen full view to load
Powered by Strava

Description

Bucknell Downhill track is near Hopton in Shropshire.

Like this?

It is actually just a 5 minutes drive (20-30 min cycle) down the road from Hopton Woods XC and the Downhill MTB trails there.  It's common to ride them both on the same trip. Pearce cycles organise uplift days and events at the course.

Bucknell DH Track

  • The Bucknell Downhill track is fast, flowing, short, can be quite technical, and is steep in places. It starts with a fast rooty section with a few doubles, a step-down, a big tabletop and a huge berm before you get to even more technical rooty track riding including a big gap jump with a short run-out, before a flowy end.

Closest Bike Shop

  • Pearce Cycles are also very involved in running races, events and trail development in the local area.

Races and Events

  • Bucknell Downhill is open to the public but it also holds the final round of the Pearce Cycles downhill series as well as regular uplift days organised by Pearce Cycles.

Other Stuff

  • The trail was made possible with the Forestry Commission working with the local community.

Share

  • If you have ridden the trails here at Bucknell then please share your experience and write a review, post pictures or videos to the listing.
shropshiremtb:
Avg 3.38
Grin Factor
Trail Variety
Skills
Trail Quality
General Setup

Another Shropshire downhill track, this one is just around the corner from Hopton. The downhill track is fun in the dry but can be a bit tricky in places in the wet. There's also a blue xc trail (part of the Hopton network) in the wood that links through the the Hopton red xc trail. The village of Bucknell has a shop and bike friendly accommodation if you need it.

What do you like?

Good quality downhill track with a variety of terrain and obstacles (jumps, drops, roots etc) that's a regular feature on the Pearce Downhill Series.

What could be improved?

Not a bad point but there's no facilities there so just plan ahead.

Would you recommend?

*Yes*

Date written:

03/12/2013 - about 12 years ago

Was this review helpful to you?

3
^
Loading weather...
Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play