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Meet our newest team member – Rafe
Hey everyone! My name is Rafe, I have been riding bikes since I was 10 years old, I started racing at 15 with Pedal Hounds, then Southern Enduro, British and Welsh National enduros and the Megavalanche in 2019. I love coaching and getting people out on their bikes to...
5 Tips to Keep Progressing Through Bad Weather
There are times in UK winters when you think, could this get any colder/wetter/more miserable? Will the trails ever be anything other than slop again? Ok, riding in the wet can be fun and sliding around or just getting down some tracks may be an achievement. But there...
5 Essential Foods Every Mountain Biker Should be Eating
There are barely a handful of sporting activities which come as close to mountain biking for physical demand. Since mountain biking joined the Olympics in 1996, riders have since chosen to specialise in either cross-country or downhill disciplines. Both downhill and...
How to Improve Nutrition & Recovery – Insights from Elite Cycling Coach, Scott Bugden
In this video, Coach, Scott Bugden from Swiss Cycling Track Team explains to Michael how you can use nutrition and recovery to optimise your cycling performance. Michael is a Level 3 British Cycling coach who works with cyclists across a range of disciplines,...
How To Keep Safe When Mountain Biking In Winter
The idea of mountain biking amongst snowy landscapes may seem very attractive in your mind. Why wouldn’t it? It looks like something out of a film! But the realities of mountain biking in the winter are less than cinematic. In reality, it can be very dangerous....
Mountain Biking adventures for kids
Over the summer holidays we ran our famous mountain bike camps for kids, these 90 minute sessions are all about building trail skills for young riders in a fun and relaxed environment where they can learn at their own speed and have plenty of time to practise their...
Summer Camps off to a great start!
The first week of the summer holiday was full of adventure and fun as we ran beginner, intermediate and advanced camps as well as our first ever adventure ride for kids. Since 2013 we have run mountain bike holiday camps for kids from Queen Elizabeth Country Park in...
Fuel your ride with great tasting coffee
After what feels like a lifetime of being stuck inside our homes and restricted from non-essential traveling, we are now finally allowed to step into the great outdoors once again. Get rid of those odors coming from your biking clothes, give your bike a good clean and...
Pilates stretches for cyclists
As we’re still allowed out once a day for one form of exercise or other, there’s no reason for you not to get on your bike and put the pedal to the floor.
Guidance For Cyclists During The Pandemic
As we’re still allowed out once a day for one form of exercise or other, there’s no reason for you not to get on your bike and put the pedal to the floor.