Trail building and repair sessions in Bristol are re-starting in February.

Bristol has a reputation as a great city for mountain biking, and is one of the few cities in the UK where you can have a great ride from your front door, but in wet weather its local trails are synonymous with claggy mud and giant puddles. Over the past few years volunteers from the Bristol biking community have been gradually weather-proofing the trails and making them more fun to ride whatever the season.
Although they are fully supported by the land managers the sessions are rider-organised and run, and as well as repairing the trails there are opportunities to build new features and improve the flow of the existing tracks. All tools and materials are supplied and new volunteers are welcome regardless of previous experience.

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I remember when this was all trees – oh, it is…

From the wonderfully named ‘Dig and pig’ day…

The first trail day will take place on Saturday 7th February at Ashton Court and there is another session planned for later in the month. For more details check out http://www.bristoltrailsgroup.com or ring Antony on 0771 265 0857.

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)