Hadleigh Park Mountain Bike Trail Centre

Needs better maintenance 

Is it a bike track or dog walking spot!? 

More variety 

More investment as its meant to be a legacy to mtbing, just feels like it's neglected and doesn't encourage mtbing. 

Good for winter riding 

Good to improve fitness 

Close to where I live 

Sadly the park is slowly being reduced to a series of walking trails, worth visiting if you’ve never been but don’t expect too much. Good for a day out with the kids and has amazing views over the Thames Estuary A nice day out, not really a trail centre. 

A nice place to visit with the family.

Has great potential which is wasted by the council failing to maintain the trails. The rangers,  shop  and mountain bike club are not at fault for this as it is not their responsibility to do the council's job

Great on-site bike shop

It used to be so good! What happened to the legacy? Poorly maintained, mismanaged, left to rot :( 

When it was well maintained it was fantastic

Good facilities, done good trail features left

A real missed opportunity now , no maintenance, no volunteers aloud onsite anymore? ,£135000 spent on miss managed poor repairs? Only now interested in park runs and walkers , Can’t see anything happening in the near future   ever .

Unfortunately there is no love left in the XC trail centre. Red tape nightmare in trying to get anything done with trail crews, no money being spent, and more places elsewhere opening up to address a wider range of riders. 

A 2012 legacy that has been let go unfortunately to be a dog walking track. Now anyone that knows me knows I don’t like the “Ups” but as Hadleigh is on my doorstep and does have a history that, I think, should be supported I would get behind any effort to bring it back to a XC circuit that’s worthy of an Olympic course. I have cut my MTB teeth scaring myself on Leap of Faith, Deanes Drop, The Rock Garden etc and have used it facilities like the Cafe and the Bike shop on many occasions. 

To let the track fall into the disrepair is a travesty and, I’m my opinion, a massive let down to every rider, enthusiast, and the local community. This has the potential to be a massive success as it was at the 2012 games and support families and children getting out into the parks and fresh air to learn an exciting, challenging and fitness based activity. 

The works that were carried out by contractors should never have got the go ahead, and whoever oversaw the works should have their heads read. This could only have been signed off on by someone who didn’t care, had no idea, or was earning a pretty penny to complete the job. This work has pretty much shut the majority of all the large “features” of the track and unless you are a hardcore XC rider, you wouldn’t even think of using the track. 

Hadleigh MTB track has a million pound potential, but only has a pounds’ worth of investment. If something isn’t done about the issues that the community is highlighting the whole place will just be lost to the fauna and flora and will become just a memory of a legacy. 

I sincerely hope that, one day, I can be back moaning about going uphill, but at least I would be on an exciting and well maintained track. 

Features, community support, Olympic legacy, potential, cafe and pump tracks.