Description
Okeford Hill Bike Park is in Dorset and has 8+ downhill trails and an efficient uplift service that allows for approximately 20 runs a day. It is aimed at intermediate and experienced riders.
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Okeford Hill Bike Park is a mixture of earth, chalk, and flint with some man-made rock gardens, berms, tabletop jumps, drop-offs and some rooty steep technical descents. There are 7 downhill trails, 22 hectares, and 125m of drop.
Flowter - One Dot
- Flowter, is the easiest and is a great introduction to riding steeper style trails without having to compete with too many roots and unrollable features.
Roy - Two Dots
- Roy is the next step up from Flowter. Starting off with single track and small drops it then enters a wooded section where carrying your speed is vital. Line choice and momentum are the key here, after that it drops down into a steeper, techier rooty section, again with plenty of line choice and off camber to challenge, before spitting you out beside the uplift pick up point.
Big Grin - Two Dots
- Designed to be able to be ridden by those just starting to get their wheels off the ground all the way up to the seasoned sender.
Devil's Dyke- Three Dots
- You’ll need to take the right hand corner off the start ramp go over the first tabletop of the 4x track then peel off to the left where you’ll see a wooden sender (go round the right hand side to avoid) after you land you’ll be into a couple of rock gardens one before the fire road and one after, you’ll then find a series of large bermed corners with root sections between before them. The 3rd corner you come to is a very rooty corner best bet stop a look for a line first, you’ll then come to chalky corner. A large open chalk corner to the right with a small catcher at the bottom be careful in the wet. Once through those corners you can either join Darkside before the second step down or continue Devils Dike which flattens out to a fast straight with a few small drops and roots before a large road gap at the finish.
Tsubo - Three Dots - Black Diamond
- Tsubo is a very technical track filled with hairpin corners and root sections, again take the right hand corner of the start ramp over the first tabletop of the 4x track peel off left but instead of going over the Devils Dike sender you’ll see the track goes to the right and follows down the side of the 4x track which you’ll cross briefly as it then takes you to a small road gap before the hill starts to drop away, after the road gap you’ll see some stumps and roots before the track drops to the to left (very steep) once down there you’ll enter a set of hair pin corners which contains different lines and roots. Towards the bottom of Tsubo there is a small drop (2ft Maximum) once over that drop you're on the last section of the track which has a few roots but a long finishing straight where you can gain some speed up before the turning circle.
Darkside - Three Dots / Black Diamond
- Darkside is the most technical track on site containing rock gardens, drops, steps, step downs, steep root sections and a road gap. You join Darkside after the second roller of Wiggly Woo, you’ll first come across a small rock garden before dropping on to the uplift track. On the other side of uplift track is a 4 ft drop into a right-hand corner (go to the right to miss the drop). You’ll then drop down the hill through another rock garden. The track then round to the left where a set of steps are before the step down (go to the right to miss the step down) after this section you traverse the hill before it drops into a steep rooty right corner. You’ll then enter a set of offset drops that lead into another root section before a small drop into a right-hand corner. You're now on the flatter section of this track. You’ll find a step down to step up before a long straight containing stumps roots and rock gardens before finishing on the road gap.
HSE - Three Dots
- HSE- Tabletops, rock garden, drops, steep, rutted corners and hips.
Rocket Line - Three dots
- Making the most of the elevation from the start ramp, Rocket Line is a collaboration with Dirt Kraft track design and construction. This is a surfaced black jump trail made up of a series of doubles, shark fins and a significant 'Moon booter'.
4X
- the 4X track is wide track based on a BMX track with a mixture of tabletops step-ups, step-downs and rollers all connected with 3 large berms.
Other Stuff
- Check out their website for opening times, latest costs, and online booking. It is serviced by a Land Rover uplift.
- It is closely affiliated with Hammoon Cycles.
- Okeford Hill, Dorset is also the base of Adaptiv Sports demo days and meet-ups (also operate in Exeter Bike Park) for MTB adaptive sessions
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