News/What’s On
If you know of any events that are not listed in either of the sections below, let us know and we will post it on the website.
Summer is well and truly here and the trails that we know and love are dry and riding well. Things have quietened down a bit following the massive weekend that was Air Maiden 2010 and the first of the kids mini downhill at Inners. Our sister company Bikes and Berms, along with a few trailfairies made up a satellite, landing ramp and kicker for the event. A massive thanks to everybody…
The countdown is on for TweedLove, its all go…..
2010 brings a new heating system to glentrail, a new bike wash area which is progressing(slowly) and Glentrail’s very own pump track is past the design stage and in to the scratching the head stage. The events are coming thick and fast, check out the events calendar, its looking like its going to be a busy year.
2010 Biking events
24th June bring the start of a week of craziness! Bikes, Biking, natural, road, trail, jumping, films, its looking big, A massive thank you to Emma at The Hub for this one. Its here Tweedlove, stop the kettle, put kids in the car, get yourselves up to The Tweed Valley
31st July – 1st August brings the Chain Reaction Cycles Marathon Series to Selkirk, formerly known as as the Merida Series, the event is being held over the weekend and will include skills classes, event village, a pasta night on the Saturday, before racing on the Sunday. Get your holidays booked and make a week of it??
20th – 22nd AugustThe Innerleithen Music Festival, If you haven’t been, get yourselves to Innerleithen for the weekend, bit of biking, bit of music, bit of sun………..
22nd August sees the third and final kids push-up race. Sponsored by Richard E Mackay Furniture of Edinburgh (A big thanks to Scott and Lee-Anne) and organised by InnerleithenMTBRacing by this time we should know what we are doing, come along and support the races and cheer the kids on.
September 9th – 11th brings the IMBA (International Mountain Biking Association) conference to the Tweed Valley and the Macdonald Cardrona Hotel. Check out IMBA</a> for more details.
18th/19th of September sees ‘Air Mincers’ freeride coaching and competition plus a few sneaky wee additions at Glentress, watch this space
A list of events at the 7stanes is available by following this link and below: -
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Check out and download the new Maps for Glentress and Innerleithen.
The new uplift at Innerliethen is running every other weekend(moving to every weekend) and places are going fast which is great news. To book give Tally a call on 07709144299
Trailbuilding- Ever fancied putting something back? Head into the woods with the trailfairies and give us a hand to build and repair the trails at Glentress. 9 – 1 or 10 – 2 on various Saturday mornings throughout the year for a good laugh, some cakes, jaffas and a bit of fettling. Check out the website for more or give Andy a shout on 07900 138901.
Non Biking Events
A list of events in and around the Tweed Valley, Peebles, Innerleithen and Walkerburn is available at: -
A few stories from 2009…
Glentrail, The Clan and MB7 hit The Outdoor Show in Birmingham back in May. The things you can do with a haggis….
In June we had a fantastic weekend up at Fort Willliam where Glentrail as part of the Tweed Valley Tourism Consortium had a stand in the EXPO area as well as helping out The Clan and Danny Macaskill with their trials display. We had a great time and a big thanks goes out to Ben, Nik, Deirdre, The Girls, Nash, Duncan, Iain, Kenny, Lynne, Ash and everybody else for all their help over the weekend. Scaffolding!!!!
Again, in June we had the Tweed Valley Bike Bash at the St Ronan’s Primary School in Innerleithen, The event was organised by Deirdre on behalf of the Tweed Valley Tourism Consortium to bring local businesses and organisations together to promote biking to the kids and the community involved. We had a fantastic setup with The Clan doing a top notch demo display, the girls from the Hub doing a have a go session with the kids, Peebles Cycling Club setup a biking obstacle course, Ben from BikesandBerms.com with a purpose built wooden pump track and the one and only trail building maestro Mr Andy Wardman from the Forestry Commission at Glentress showing the kids how to build a trail in the woods based in the school grounds. Hopefully this will lead to the building of a 120m trail section which can be built and used by the kids and community. A massive thanks goes out to everybody involved, it was a fantastic event.
We helped Lynne at Air Maiden 11 on the 10th & 11th October, this was a great success and a big well done goes to Lynne and all involved for getting everything organised
Late October and we were involved with Helen, Steve and Dan from InnerleithenMTBRacing and Dave Winton from Scottish Cycling for the Spooky Downhill event at Innerleithen. This was hopefully the first of many ‘mini’ downhill events for both the kids and the adults. It was a great day with a coaching session from Dave, followed by practice and afternoon racing on the lower section of the cresta run in the October sunshine. This one, was for the 10-16 year olds and a big well done to all those involved, especially Neil, Seamus, Darren and the Trailfairies.
Phew, Its was a busy old year!
