You up for a challenge? A Chainless Challenge?

Or maybe you just fancy hanging out and doing something fun and different on your bike? Unless you’ve been living under a stone you’ll know that bikings latest buzzwords are pump & flow. Well after a settling in period our Descent Line at Stainburn was lacking just that..

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We’ve been given the heads up from the good folks at Hamsterley Trailblazers about the upcoming consultation on the future of our forests. As most of you reading tis will be aware the consultation is being organised by The independant Panel set up by the government to advise them what to do with the forests.

If like me you care about what happens to the forests that belong to us all please keep reading.

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IMBA have shown the guys and girls at Guisborough some real support where it counts by dipping into there pockets and providing a not inconsiderable £300 towards tools.

Trailbuilding has gained a real momentum up ay Gizzy thanks to SingletrAction and the hardworking MTB Guisborough crew. Tools, hardcore and graft = great, long lasting trails.

As if you really needed another reason to join SingletrAction, Loco Tuning, suspension guru has kindly offered our members a 10% discount off his already very reasonable servicing.
Simon is getting rave reviews over on Singletrackworld for both his sage advice and suspension tuning.

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Two great offers in one week!
Christian at Hit the Hills is offering our members a 10% discount.

The volunteers up at Gisburn have been hatching a plan to develop a small visitor hub at Gisburn Forest. If you are one of the many people who visit the forest Martin would like to hear what you think. If you can spare a few minutes it would be a great help if you could fill in the short questionnaire. Just follow this link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N25QDLL.

This isn’t a SingletrAction project but we do like to offer support and encourage trailbuilding and development where we can. On a typical trailbuilding day at Gisburn it’s usually possible to find a few volunteers from SingletrAction and PMBA.

SingletrAction are now featured in the latest promotion of mountain biking on the Welcome to Yorkshire website.  Not only is there a nice little article about the trails available, but there is also a brief explination of some of the good work SingletrAction does and two videos with some familier faces to boot.

To see the whole article follow the link to http://www.yorkshire.com/outdoors/onwheels/mountain-biking

Chase Trails, the lovely volunteer trail builders responsible for such Midlands gems as “Follow the Dog” and “Monkey Trail” at Cannock Chase need our / your / anyone’s help to get money out of those Lottery people.
Read on to find out what you could do ….
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Mountain biking has seen some major changes in the last 15 years. As people have got more leisure time and money it’s meant more people with bikes, and more riders looking for trails to challenge themselves and enjoy. There’s been the advent of “trail centres”, dedicated MTB playgrounds with challenges and facilities for all abilities, there’s also been technological advances too numerous to mention.

Pioneers like Dafydd Davies started something special in Wales with some of the first dedicated trail centres and since then lots of others have picked up the baton and run with it. [table3]

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