Trail Talk 🔴 Live!

We now list 11 bikepacking routes, from a two day stretch of the Ridgeway to the 800 mile Great North Trail. Our new guide explains what bikepacking and long-distance mean, which route to start with, and how each listing covers the terrain, the bike, resupply and where to stay.

Bikepacking does not have to mean camping: a campsite, bunkhouse or pub bed at the end of each day all work. Some routes are waymarked on the ground, such as the Sandstone Way and King Alfred's Way, while others are followed by GPX rather than signs, and most suit mountain bikes as well as gravel bikes.

Just added to the index: A 193km waymarked MTB route from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Hexham, now listed on iBikeRide.

Just added to the index: Twelve trails, green to black, beside a Pembrokeshire reservoir, with a free pump track and bike hire.

Comrie Croft has received its iBikeRide Trail of the Year 2026 first place plaque.

A £15,800 grant covers most of Golspie's flyover rebuild, with £4,000 still needed before work starts. Volunteers are separately crowdfunding £1,000 to cover unbudgeted extras after a lost month of parking income. 

East Yorkshire's first pump track has opened at Leconfield village hall, near Beverley.

A new asphalt pump track has opened at Church Road Playing Fields in Biddulph, Staffordshire.

One-day conference launches Scotland's MTB strategy, 11 Nov, Perth Theatre. Tickets from £70.