Emily Chappell and Jenny Tough are two of the most accomplished endurance athletes, having won insanely challenging races such as the Transcontinental and Silk Road Mountain Race. In the latest…
Inspiring Women
Cycling UK wants you to nominate your top 100 Women in Cycling
Cycling UK have announced details of its 2019 Women’s Festival of Cycling. Now in its third year, the Festival will take place throughout the UK in July with cycling groups…
International Women’s Day | A year of Inspiring Women
On International Women’s day last year we didn’t want to just do a one-day thing to say how awesome women riders are so instead we launched a year’s worth of…
Interview: Gowaan Gals – Give It A Go And Remember To Be Silly!
It’s the last month of our Inspiring Women interview series and we’ve saved the most fun for last after I spent a very entertaining evening chatting to Enduro racers Bex…
Get yourself to the Gowaan Gals MTB Festival and win an Ibis frame for a fiver!
The Gowaan als (that’s Go On! in a northern accent and with lots of feeling, or if you need OED pronunciation it’d be something like ɡəʊ ɑːɑːɑː.n), aka Martha Gill…
Interview: Cycling UK’s Julie Rand – celebrating the good stuff
For this month’s Inspiring Women interview we talk to Julie Rand, Cycling UK’s Volunteer Communications and Engagement Officer. Julie’s been mountain biking since before it was a thing, and her…
Interview: Adele Mitchell – it’s not about what you wear, it’s about how much fun you have
Our Inspiring Women interviews have featured a wide range of people from local heroes to seasoned pros. Whatever they are doing now they’ve all had an adventure sport background which…
Interview: The Adventure Syndicate – overnight on a school night
No self-respecting Inspiring Women interview series could be complete without featuring the motivational force that is The Adventure Syndicate. In fact, given the founding principle of the Syndicate is to…
Interview: Lynne Armstrong – “Watch what happens, it could be awesome”
Everyone we feature in our Inspiring Women interview series has been nominated by you, the readers. The person we have the most nominations for by far is the queen of…
Interview: Dan Jarvis – it doesn’t take much to sell women’s racing, they’re the ones serving up the drama
Dan Jarvis has been involved in promoting women’s mountain biking for many years, first through his university club in Brighton, then as the head of the BN3 DH team, and…
Interview: Sally Bigham – I’ve certainly not made it easier by having a baby
Our Inspiring Women interview series has featured a wide range of people doing impressive things in the world of mountain biking. This month we feature our first professional rider: Sally Bigham.…
Inspiring Women: Michelle Haigh and the MTB Chix and Trails internet sensation
So far we’ve featured quite a different range of people in our Inspiring Women series. From Rachael Walker in the bike industry at Hope Technology, to the 75 year old…
Interview: Amanda Tanfield – When Ladies Do DH
We’re now well underway with our series featuring inspiring women (and those that inspire women) in MTBing. If you’ve missed the interviews so far, you can read about HopeTech’s Rachael…
Interview: Ally Campbell – it’s all about the confidence
A couple of months back we started off a series of interviews about inspiring women in mountain biking by chatting to HopeTech’s Rachael Walker and then 75 year old downhill…
Interview: Pat Horscroft – after you turn 60 it’s all downhill
Last month we launched a new series featuring inspiring women within MTB or people who have done lots to promote women riders and riding. First up was HopeTech’s Brand Manager…
Interview: Rachael Walker – bringing Hope to the masses.
We hope that STW is pretty good at featuring female riders, heroes, and contributors in the same way we do men, but there’s always more that we can do. So,…