Injuries can seem bleak at the time, but some can mean a new chapter into something even better

Dog lover, outdoors lover and cycling events manager, Hannah Christie has won our hearts for the work that she does for the forests and MTB community and for the dangerously cute bike + dog pics! Read on to find out more...

Popular for all the right reasons, we're delighted to welcome northern lass Rosie Holdsworth to the HB Ambassadorship circle.

After losing her Gran to cancer, Rachel picked up an old MTB for the first time since childhood, aged 26. Her motivation was to undertake a hard challenge to raise funds for MacMillan, the charity that had supported her loved Gran during her final months...and in doing so she discovered a new love, a lifelong friend in the bicycle and processed her feelings of grief and loss.

Our HB130 Ambassador, Cheri Mills, gives us a little peak into her biking life

An interview with Becky, cyclocross racer & Postie

An interview with Becky, cyclocross racer & Postie

Alice, you are a true outdoors and activity enthusiast. Maybe it´s fair to say that your husband is the more die-hard MTBer and you´re the yoga teacher, but you love time on two-wheels and a bit of dabbling on the mountain bike.

Huw Oliver asks Emma Holgate a few questions about what it was like to tackle 9 days of bikepacking at an average elevation of more than 10,000ft on the 540 miles from Durango to Denver…

Words & Pics by Huw Oliver

Hopetech Women’s Enduro 2019 round up.

What a wicked idea! Seriously. What a freaking awesome idea!! Let´s get a massive bunch of women, camping over in a trail infested field and give them jams, sessions, races, speakers, a movie night and music. And what? An airbag? GOWAAN GALS!!!​

Off-road from Inverness to Glasgow.

Let’s start with a show of hands for all those who have killed a bit of time tiptoeing along the tightrope of inspirational uploads across a range of social media platforms and ended up falling off into the pit of envy below? In the circus that we call life, this emotional tightrope can either have us dancing out the door before the dawn chorus or pulling the duvet over our head to pretend it’s still night time. I’ll hazard a guess that only those who abstain from engaging in any form of social media still have their hands firmly by their sides.

For weeks during September and the beginning of October most of the UK had been treated to dry and reasonably warm weather. The long-term weather forecast for the 14th October even looked good. But during the week leading up to the 2018 Hopetech Women Enduro lots of blue drops started appearing on the BBC weather app, particularly for Sunday 14th October....

Four things I learnt from going solo on my last adventure

Julia Hobson is an experienced mountain bike guide. Spending her summers guiding in the Alps and her winters in the Lake District, she knows more than anyone that you need to be prepared when heading out into the hills. Julia gives us her top tips on what sort of things you should be looking to have in your backpack

Without any warning you are ripped from your slumber and whatever you were dreaming of is instantly a faint speckle on a distant horizon.