Our Reader Craig Pollock's Submission

Here we have a contribution from our reader Craig Pollock. Craig is from Steyning and below he describes a local ride that he has recently completed.

I’m not an old fogey, I’m eleven and I like to BMX. I normally jump but sometimes I cycle round Steyning. Yesterday I went round a trail that some people call the horseshoe. I took my BMX giant GFR FW and my friend Tim rode a GT mountain bike. The best bike for this is a bike with gears although you don’t really need suspension that much.

The route was about 3.4 km and we had to climb about 98m and it took around an hour, but because of rain, we had to shelter and also from time to time had to have a drink. The ground was quite surprisingly dry at first, but after it had rained, it got wet and muddy which made it slippy and hard to grip. On the way up there were big roots that were like obstacles and big roots that bikers can jump if they get a straight line up. The jumps, which were beside our path, were about the size of a table. But they got demolished. After going up there is a long smooth path, there are still roots but are highlighted with white paint. The gates, which used to be there, are still there but most are by the side of the path where people have thrown them off, they were used to slow down bikes and to make sure that walkers aren’t hit.