This month's Mountain Bike UK features my local stomping ground of Woodbury Common as one of this month's rides. As always, when your area is featured, I was curious to see where they had been and whether they'd chosen my favourite trails. They were shown around by the guys at a local bike shop, so they had found some brilliant singletrack. The problem is that navigation on the common is complicated, so that they have only been able to fit a 45 minute circuit onto the route c

Isn't it a bit sexist to have women only rides I hear you ask. Surely we're all equal now and we don't need any of that nonsense? Well I disagree. As someone who's been mountain biking for over 20 years I've spent plenty of time in the minority. Last year my husband and I went on a mountain biking holiday in Spain. There were 24 riders there during the week we stayed - and I was the only woman. I used to do Polaris Challenge endurance events. It's the only place I've ever bee