GRENOSIDE WOODS, SHEFFIELD
with Steve Peat is like a history lesson. Even after all these years, virtually no one can beat the 2009 world champ down the Steel City track here. This trail, one of three machine-made ‘trail bike’ downhill runs and the jewel in Grenoside’s crown, is taped out every spring for the wildly popular Steel City DH race. A few miles north of Sheffield and easily reached from the M1, the area was pivotal as one of the first in the country where mountain biking properly took hold and, subsequently, where the kind of downhill racing we know today was born. The influence of the rocky, rooty home-grown tracks over the road at Wharncliffe and the official trails here
