Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland (DMBinS) has been working on a ‘Fresh Cuts’ project with some young people to help them develop the skills to make mountain biking videos. This first one is by Ross La Trobe, who may have been hoping for a topic like ‘Scotland’s sickest singletrack’ or ‘How to shred harder’, but instead got the topic of the economic benefits of mountain biking.
It might sound a bit dry, but Ross has done a properly excellent job of making it entertaining, and incorporates a bunch of nice video editing skills in there too. Top work.
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Excellent.
Bikes tuned up by the lads? I’m pretty sure I saw some girls involved!
Excellent video and a great advert for MTB’ing the Borders area.
This is exactly the sort of approach I want to see happen in South Wales – we’ve got the trails, we’ve got the people who are passionate about progress, we just need the government and NRW to get more on board.
I think you mean Lasses.
As a resident of Peebles i do think there is a massive difference in the presence of mountainbikeing related benefits between it and Innerleithen.
In the last ten years its improved but Peebles just doesn’t seem to get on board with it in the same way as inners.Â
I means obvs there is lot’s of money from hospitality. But you walk down inners high street and most of the businesses are screaming mountain biking and outdoors in general.
Peebles by comparison… 1 bike shop. One sensible independent coffee shop (as in opens at 8am).Â
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1 bike shop suggests it is either servicing all the needs of the locals or, there are better options not far away.
It does seem a bit odd though – forestry have spent millions at Glentress and yet the local village hasn’t exploded in uptake as the next village along (which has great trails but less money spent on them).
I think Peebles is bigger so suspect it has a more varied requirements and the MTB stuff is more blended on, maybe?
Peebles has always been a relatively busy town with lots of visitors, whereas if you go back 15+ years, Innerleithen was pretty quiet with no real draw for visitors.
Mountain biking has pretty much reinvigorated Innerleithen, so it’s understandable why the effects of mountainbiking are much more noticeable.
Yeah, but the high street is grim and struggling. Shops shutting and replaced with charity shops, nail salons, tanning places isn’t a strong sign.
Its just an observation really, like i am often left thinking its weird how untouched it is despite being so close to glentress.Â
Village?! I’ll have you know its a county town.
Yeah, sorry just my personal terminology…I still live in a village even though it has been consumed and part of the outskirts of a city…
The place with dwellings and establishments.
Charity shops, tanning places and salons isn’t a localised issue though, that is happening everywhere.
Except the next town along… 🙂
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Nope, that is also one of my quirks…I clearly don’t pay attention and mix and match…if I’ve got it right it is due to me proofreading before posting!
Yeah, Peebles always had an air prosperity and Innerleithen always seemed like a bit of a … backwater. I’d assume that shop property rental reflects that. Given the issues that bike shops have, maybe they’re just not sustainable at the higher costs. Anyways, that Peebles High Street doesn’t look like Keswick (or Aviemore), with unit after unit of “outdoor" shops, should be taken as a blessing.Â
I would say you can flip that these days.
Innerleithen is buzzing without ending up like Aviemore.