Cycling UK have partnered up with MTB experts Campbell Coaching to bring a weekend of MTB Trail Maintenance courses to the North of England. The courses are aimed at giving people the skills and knowledge to carry out maintenance work on their local trails to keep them in a good, rideable condition, as well as […]
UPDATE: DCC Statement on Hollowford Road, Castleton
We’ve been in contact with Derbyshire County Council following the start of ‘surprising’ works at Hollowford Road in the shadow of Mam Tor. Annotated screenshot from DCC’s map, showing rights of way and adopted highways, 2/2023. Bing OS map location. They’ve shared the following statement: “The aggregate surface is temporary. We’re currently working on Hollowford […]
A hollow feeling – DCC on Hollowford Road, Castleton
DCC strike again with works ‘not in keeping’ with surrounding areas or indicated plans. Derbyshire County Council have once again resurfaced an historic pathway to the surprise and frustration of users. Hollowford Road, the sunken pathway that leads from a lane out of Castleton to Hollins Cross on the eastern flank of Mam Tor has […]
Ride in the Corridors of Power
The push for increased access at governmental level has stalled. No matter which way you look at it, cutting through the rhetoric and bluster, there is zero definitive action to improve access for riders here in England. The Scottish model has proven a huge success, bar isolated incidents. Trails for Wales has come so close […]
BHF Peak District ride postponed to October 2023
We’ve had the disappointing news that the BHF Peak District event, planned for April this year, has been postponed to October 21st due to slow sign up. Obviously this is not what we wanted to share as we were in the midst of recruiting marshals and sweepers for the event as well as making plans […]
Merry Christmas from Peak District MTB
Another year, another look back over what we’ve been up to in Peak District MTB. It’s a tradition, isn’t it? Look at what we did, promise to do better in 2023. So let’s have a go at that shall we? Well it has been a decent year for us again. As we often point out, […]
The Trail Pot – A Blueprint to change the fortunes of Mountain Biking in the UK
A national investment fund Thousands of pounds available for advocacy All for the tiniest of forgettable outlay by riders You can make it work Money talks. In any business. In any arena. In any situation anywhere, money talks. The trouble is, mountain bikers aren’t that good at raising it. Yes, there are sporadic highlights where […]
AGM 2022 Report: A Sense of Adventure
We’re always a little bit nervous ahead of the AGM. It’s always a bit of worry; “Will anyone turn up?”, “Are we doing enough for our members?”, “Have we made enough progress this year?”. Well it turns out none of that worry was necessary as our 2022 event was possibly the most successful we’ve ever […]
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