Trail Talk 🔴 Live!

SheRides is running eight free women's rides this October. Tick Women Only on the events page to see them.

Our guide to UK women+ mountain bike groups is refreshed, and 26 trail pages now list local groups too.

Trail search has a new Women's groups and sessions filter. Use it with Region to find venues near you where a group rides or coaches. Each of those trail pages shows a ✅ Women's groups and sessions tick and names the groups. The events calendar still has its Women Only filter for anything with a date.

Before rewriting, we read Project FIAS's Gearing Up! workbook, which covers how clubs and venues can make mountain biking more welcoming for women+ riders. We used it as a checklist for our wording and our pictures.

It isn't complete. Is a group missing or out of date near you? Is the filter useful? Let us know using the form at the bottom of the article.

More than 90 UK listings carry the Gravel tag. Our new guide covers what gravel is and where to start.

Community Ride Project CIC has won £1,000 from Warwickshire County Council for trail and site development.

First Canadian round is at Cypress Mountain, West Vancouver, on 17 Oct. New custom-built course.

The first-ever FlyUp Fest hits 417 Bike Park on 4 Sept 2027. Early bird tickets are on sale now until 6 Dec.

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.