
Bike Guide Devon is back: join me for a ride
Offering guided mountain bike rides and one-to-one confidence building rides in East Devon

What emotion do you take with you on your mountain bike rides? And, is it helping you?
The days I enjoy most on my mountain bike are the ones where the emotions I am associating with my ride are fun, freedom, exhilaration and/or exploration - just loving being out in nature and moving under my own steam, ideally without too many other people around! More recently, with the start of Bike Guide Devon I've also found great satisfaction in sharing my favourite rides with and seeing them enjoy the riding and build their confidence. However, like everyone, I also hav

5 reasons why you benefit from riding with a mountain bike leader
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