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    SIDZ Trail Crew, BPW

    Meet the team behind BikePark Wales that repaired 32 trails in three days in the aftermath of Storm Darragh

    • December 31, 2024

    With the weather being the way it has over the past few weeks, it’s hard not to think about how it’s impacting our trail network.…

    YT Decoy SN

    E-biking is one of the fastest growing sports in the world according to Garmin data, with e-MTB rides surging 18% in 2024

    • December 19, 2024

    E-biking is one of the fastest growing outdoor activities in the world according to data from Garmin, which reckons the number of completed mountain bike…

    Storm Darragh trail damage

    “The storms are wreaking havoc and putting undue pressure on already stretched resources.” We speak to trail groups across the UK about how recent weather is impacting their mountain bike trails

    • December 18, 2024

    Storms and bad weather are just part and parcel of living in the UK, particularly at this time of year. But, we are seeing more…

    Dean Trail Volunteers

    The Forest of Dean’s Dean Trail Volunteers awarded the highest accolade for volunteer groups in the UK

    • November 22, 2024

    The Dean Trail Volunteers (DTV), a team of 147 volunteers based at the Forest of Dean, have been given The King’s Award for Voluntary Service.…

    Coed y Brenin visitor centre

    Coed y Brenin cafe will close on March 31 2025, with NRW accused of dragging its heels on finding a new lease

    • November 21, 2024

    Coed y Brenin and Bwlch Nant yr Arian will close their cafes as soon as April 2025, with the last bacon butty served up to…

    Damage to Cross Hill Quarry floor from mountain bike tracks - Kim Coverdale

    Access to area of Lancashire nature reserve restricted after “significant damage” apparently caused by bike jumps

    • November 21, 2024

    Mountain bikers near Clitheroe are being blamed for causing damage to wildflower grassland at Cross Hill Quarry nature reserve, which has apparently been damaged due…

    Coed y Brenin

    Coed y Brenin visitor centre closure: “We need people to get angry about this”

    • November 18, 2024

    Coed y Brenin must become a community run trail centre with a new “vision for the future”, or accept trail closures and a slide to…

    YT Tues Core 4 29

    The UK’s trails are officially harder than the rest of Europe’s, according to the first ever State of Our Trails Report… and we want more

    • November 13, 2024

    It’s official, the UK has gnarlier trails than the continent, with a greater percentage of black and red-graded tracks than France, Spain and Italy or…

    Coed y Brenin visitor centre

    After a year of speculation, Coed y Brenin visitor centre will close, but there’s still hope for the surrounding mountain bike trails that make the destination great

    • November 11, 2024

    After a year of speculation and confusion, National Resources Wales (NRW) will now close three visitor centres at mountain biking sites including Coed y Brenin,…

    Merida Big Trail 600

    England and Wales have been left behind in the race for trail access, with Scotland now boasting over 5,000km of singletrack, according to a groundbreaking new study

    • November 7, 2024

    Scotland has nearly as many kilometres of singletrack as England and Wales combined thanks largely to its liberal land access laws, mountainous landscape and low…

    Aerial photo of pumptrack in Roma, Lesotho

    Live, work, or study in Shropshire? Sign the petition to help Oswestry get a pump track and skate park

    • November 7, 2024

    A petition for a ‘skateboard facility and pump track’ in Oswestry, Shropshire, has been launched, with 1,000 signatures needed in order for the plans to…

    Flyup 417 Bike Park forced to close again due to massive National Highways project near Gloucester

    • November 6, 2024

    Just mere months after reopening, Flyup 417 Bike Park has once again had to close its gates to the public while the National Highways’ A417…

    Shimano New Trail Born Fund

    The Trail Pot launches a new central fund to help finance trail-building projects across the UK

    • October 30, 2024

    Trail Pot is the UK’s first grassroots mountain biking trail development fund, created with the aim to “empower local communities and projects with the financial…

    BikePark Wales Quarry Skills Area

    BikePark Wales opens a new Quarry Skills Area with tables, gap jumps, drops and techie steeps designed to replicate real trail features

    • October 16, 2024

    BikePark Wales has just opened a brand new skills area, packed with gaps, drops, skinnies and techie bits the idea is to mimic the features…

    Old Bob's Trail

    Forest of Dean’s new kid-friendly green trail opens, 2km of berms, rollers and “mini rock gardens”

    • October 15, 2024

    The Forest of Dean has announced the addition of a brand new green level trail to its repertoire. It is called Old Bob’s Trail and…

    Dyfi Bike Park

    Dyfi Bike Park gives you 4 new reasons why you must ride there this winter

    • October 9, 2024

    Wales’s most hardcore bike park, Dyfi Bike Park has been subject to a few enhancements over the summer. From a new website with an interactive…

    Castle Black trail

    Glentress’s new skills area will be bigger, better and feature dedicated “tech zones” for jumps, rollers, drops, corners and more

    • October 8, 2024

    Forestry and Land Scotland (the organisation that runs Glentress in Scotland) has submitted new plans to develop the Skills Area in Glentress. The plans are…

    Go Outdoors names pan-flat Cambridge as the UK’s best mountain bike destination, thanks to its “moderately difficult” trails

    • September 26, 2024

    Which UK city has the best mountain bike trails on its doorstep? Cardiff, Sheffield or maybe Edinburgh would be near the top of our list,…

    Tidworth B1KEPARK

    Wiltshire might seem like an unlikely place for a bike park, but it has two, and one of them – Tidworth – has just reopened after an exciting rebuild

    • September 16, 2024

    Tidworth bike park, one of the B1KE venues that includes Wind Hill, Rogate, and S4P in Milford, has re-opened after closing for the summer to…

    coed y brenin

    Mountain biking groups unite to fight back over planned Welsh trail centre closures, including Coed y Brenin – the birthplace of trail centres

    • September 10, 2024

    In an unprecedented show of solidarity, over 90 organisations have pulled together to highlight concerns over the fate of several much-loved trail centres due to…

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