While lockdown might be limiting riding opportunities right now, that doesn’t stop policy makers planning for the future. Scotland has been pushing mountain bike tourism and activities through DMBinS, and their work continues. Right now, they want your input on what trails you want, so that they can make the right kind of plans for the future.
DMBinS (Developing Mountain Biking In Scotland) is part of the DIRTT Project (Developing Inter-European Trail Builder Training), which is a partnership that aims to develop trail design and building guidelines with an educational framework and associated professional training programmes. By sharing resources, knowledge and ideas, the partners aim to help mountain biking continue to grow across Europe – countries currently involved are Switzerland, Portugal, Scotland, Netherlands, Denmark and Norway.
Right now, they’re looking to be better informed about what they should be building, and are asking questions like:
- What trails do you like to ride?
- What trails should there be more of?
- Are there trails being built which you love? Or hate?
You can give all these answers and more in this survey. It takes about ten minutes to complete.
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For more information on DMBinS, why not check out our in depth story about them and their work.
I may have to move to Scotland. It’d be a wrench leaving the wife and kids, but I’m sure they’d understand 😀
Trails are great and all but I feel we need more pumptracks around parks and off high streets.
I thought that was actually a rather well designed survey. Felt like they understood biking well, and I appreciated the kind of questions they were asking. Very good, I hope as many Singletrack readers as possible have completed answers.
Which reminds me I must make a couple of applications to my local definitive map with the council.
Always worth completing these surveys, data is key now in development.