MTB Responsibility Code

We expect all riders using Shredhill bikepark to understand the Mountain Bikers responsibility code. This code helps keep everyone safe and should be upheld at all times.

Follow the code to ensure that all riders have a fun and safe experience at Shredhill Bikepark. We reserve the right to remove day passes or ban riders from the park for breaches of the Mountain Biker’s responsibility code.

  • All riders must display one valid ride pass on their handlebar at all times, expired passes must be removed from handlebars.

  • Always carry a mobile phone with an ICE (in case of emergency) number installed and make sure it is charged before you leave the house. If in need of assistance, contact Dominic Williams on 07388 996 782 or 999 in an emergency. If you have called an ambulance, please inform the someone on site so we can assist in guiding them to you. 

  • Avoid riding alone, it’s safer and more fun to ride with your buddies. If you do ride alone, please ensure you let us know when you sign in.

  • Stay in control at all times. It is your responsibility to avoid crashing into other riders and objects around you!

  • Be respectful and aware of other riders' varying skill levels, relax and have fun.

  • Do not stop on the trail. Pull off the trail in a safe place if you need to stop for any reason.

  • When entering a trail or starting downhill, you must look uphill and give way to other riders coming down the trail.

  • Respect the trail gradings, read the grading descriptions and the trail difficulty index. Begin on the easier trails and do not ride trails that are beyond your current level of ability. IF unsure on trail difficulties please ask a member of staff for advice.

  • Even if you have ridden a trail before, be careful! We make ongoing changes and improvements to the trails and features, so they may have changed since your last visit.

  • Be aware that the Bike Park trails are set in a mountain and a small area of forestry environment which poses risks including:

  1. Forestry environment risks: trees, stumps, branches, brash and vegetation can cause injury. 

    Forests are unpredictable environments where trees can be subject to lose limbs, branches and even snap or blow over in high winds or extremes of temperature and weather. Riding bikes within woodland has an inherent risk from the trees that form the woodland environment

  2. Mountain Environment risks: exposure to fast changing weather conditions, steep slopes, rocky areas and outcrops and exposed trail edges. 

Trail conditions change with the seasons and the weather; mountain biking is an all-weather sport but respect the added challenge and risk that rain, ice, mud, dust and wind can pose to you. If it is windy, do not attempt jumps; keep both wheels on the ground and stay on the easier trails.

  • Avoid riding when daylight has faded, and it is dark on the trails.

  • Keep off closed trails and non-trail areas and obey all signs and warnings.

  • Stay on marked trails only. Do not cut switchbacks or modify trails.

  • Only ride the trails during opening hours. There is no access to the trails when the park is closed. If you have not signed in you must not ride the trails.

  • Do not push or ride up downhill trails.

  • Keep out of the Bike Park if your ability is impaired by drugs or alcohol.

  • Be friendly, courteous and respectful to your fellow riders, poor conduct will not be tolerated and staff have the right to remove any user from the park.

  • Children aged 15 and under need to be supervised by a parent or guardian over 18 years of age, or by an accompanying adult over 25 years of age at ALL times.

  • All riders under 18 years of age must have their parents or legal guardian’s sign them in and provide consent by completion of our acceptance of risk form. These must be filled in at the shred shed.

  • Please be aware of and courteous of other user groups within the park. 

  • Please help us maintain the park. If you see a problem on the trails report it to us.

  • Respect your environment; please take your litter home with you!

  • Know your limits! Don't ride above your ability or push yourself too far!

  • If a rider is hurt, do not move them, notify the Bike Park staff immediately.

Please ensure you have read, understood and carry out the MTB Responsibility Code outlined above throughout the duration of your stay at Shredhill Bikepark.