Trail Talk 🔴 Live!

Big congrats 🏆 to the Tayside Trail Association, winners of Trail Association of the Year at the DMBinS Scottish Mountain Bike Awards 🎉, hosted at Comrie Croft HQ. Go support them on a dig day.

Full list of winners:

• 🥇 Trail Advocate — Pete Scullion, Bike Trossachs Trail Association / Trash Free Trails
• 🥇 Trail Project — New Lower Wolves Trail, Caberston (Golfie) by Tweed Valley Trails Association
• 🥇 Trail Association — Tayside Trail Association
• 🥇 Coaching & Guiding — 57 North Adventures
• 🥇 MTB-Friendly Accommodation — Cairngorm Bothies
• 🥇 Bike Shop — 20 Twenty Store
• 🥇 Local Hero — Graeme Berry (Tayside Trail Association / Scottish Enduro)
• 🥇 Community Project — The FNY Collective
• 🥇 Club — Deeside Thistle Cycling Club Youth & Junior Section
• 🥇 Event — Limitlass
• 🥇 Ambassador — Chris Gibbs (Cycle Wild Scotland)

Tayside Trail Association (TTA) has released its autumn and winter dig day calendar, now live on Eventbrite. All sessions are free to join and open to everyone – no experience required.

SingletrAction reports that Section 3 of the Red Route at Dalby Forest has reopened following repairs to storm damage sustained last December. The closure had forced a steep diversion climb, now no longer required. Riders can again enjoy the full red loop as intended.

Glentress 7 returns to Glentress Forest, Peebles, on Saturday 30 May 2026 (10 am start) — entries open Friday 31 October at 4 pm via tweedlove.com.

Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland (DMBinS) has released a new resource – the Trail Management Guide for Mountain Bikers (October 2025) – to help land managers, trail associations, and volunteers across Scotland understand how to manage and sustain mountain bike trails for the long term.