UK mountain biking platform iBikeRide has launched a major redesign of its iOS and Android app, introducing a more discovery-focused experience built around trails, events, community activity and the wider UK riding scene.

The app now has much greater parity with the web platform, delivering a more consistent experience across devices for browsing trails, events, news, and community content.

The updated app brings together more than 600 UK trail listings and a connected set of discovery and community tools, including a clustered trail map for exploring riding areas, rider check-ins, saving favourites, live Trail Talk updates, UK mountain biking news and a fully integrated events calendar covering rides, races, festivals, dig days, coaching sessions, demo days and trail clean-ups, alongside the introduction of ChatMTB, a new AI-powered riding assistant, and Trail of the Year 2026 voting, into a single platform designed to help riders find places to ride and stay connected to the sport.

Trail of the Year 2026 is now fully integrated into the app experience, giving riders live access to leaderboard standings, incoming reviews and community voting throughout the campaign.

One of the biggest additions is the new Trail Map experience, allowing riders to explore trails visually through clustering, interactive discovery and quick-access trail preview cards. The redesign focuses on helping riders browse and discover riding spots naturally, whether searching locally or planning rides further afield.

The release also introduces ChatMTB, a built-in AI riding assistant integrated across trails, news and events. Riders can ask contextual questions about trails, parking, facilities, weather windows, events and riding recommendations directly within the app.

Ride check-ins and community activity now form part of the broader trail experience.

Save and favourite functionality allows riders to collect trails, events and articles into a single place within their profile.

The redesign also introduces expanded profile functionality, allowing riders to view rides, reviews, media uploads and recorded tracks in one place.

Ride recording, live location sharing and Strava integration remain built into the platform.

Daniel Mintz, founder of iBikeRide, said:

“We wanted to produce an app that helps riders discover new places, follow what’s happening in the scene, see events nearby and feel connected to the wider community — not just something riders open once they’ve already arrived at the trailhead.”

“Navigation and ride recording still matter, but mountain biking is bigger than that. Riders want somewhere that brings together trails, events, news and the wider community in one place.”

The redesigned iBikeRide app is available now on iOS and Android.

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