If you haven't come across Rideable Now yet, it's worth ten minutes of your time, starting with the podcast episode that introduced us to it.

Martyn Ashton is a former British and World Champion mountain bike trials rider, a longtime GMBN presenter, and an adaptive MTB rider. He was a guest on the Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast, published 18 August 2026. The episode covers his trials career and the origins of his viral Road Bike Party videos, how RideAble Now is working to make adaptive bikes more affordable, the barriers to creating adaptive mountain bike trails, and the misconception that adaptive trails are boring to ride. It's a good listen whether or not you ride adaptive.

What Rideable Now is

RideAble Now is an organisation supporting adaptive mountain biking, structured as a Community Interest Company and described on its own site as a not-for-profit social enterprise which Ashton set up last year. Ashton himself describes RideAble Now as an ecosystem rather than a single thing: part media hub, part community, part membership scheme, built around film, podcasts and Trail Diary features shot from an adaptive rider's perspective.

How the membership and funding work

Membership costs £5 a month. The membership fee itself builds the Rideable Now Access Fund, a grant pot aimed at helping disabled riders afford adaptive bikes. Many riders already run their own crowdfunding campaigns to cover the cost of a bike; RideAble Now says it connects them with its ambassadors to boost the visibility of those campaigns, then steps in with a grant once a rider is close to their target, with the stated aim of covering around a quarter of the total cost.

In return, members get discount codes from brand partners including Peaty's, POC, Hope, CRUD and MTBHopper, entry into monthly prize draws for MTB kit, and entry into a bi-monthly "Factory Builds" competition where a hand-built bike is given away.

Listen, and get involved

The Singletracks episode is a genuinely good listen for anyone interested in where adaptive mountain biking is heading in the UK and beyond. For more on adaptive-friendly trails around the UK, see our growing guide: Adaptive Mountain Biking UK: Where to Ride, What to Expect, and How to Get Started. And if you know of an adaptive MTB event that should be on our radar, add it to the events calendar, where you can filter for adaptive MTB events. 

I subscribed to RideAble Now after listening to that podcast episode. If you're in a position to support it, rideablenow.com is where to go.

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