About Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland Podcast
Chatting about mountain biking in Scotland and beyond. Guests from the world of mountain biking discussing trail development, responsible access, mental and physical health, urban trails and programmes, destination development, innovation and more.
Trails for the Environment - Emma Holgate & Douglas Carchrie - Trail Feathers Project
Trails for the Environment - The Trail Feathers Project, Emma Holgate & Douglas Carchrie - Trail Feathers ProjectIn this podcast we get a fascinating insight into a project where mountain bikers are a leading light in Capercaillie conservation helping to preserve and enhance the rare and vulnerable habitat for the critically endangered Capercaillie. The ‘Trail Feathers Project’, funded by the Cairngorms Capercaillie Project, has involved the whole mountain bike community, Badenoch and Str...
19 Sept 2023
Dr Lesley Ingram-Sills - Evidencing the Impact
Dr Lesley Ingram-Sills - Edinburgh Napier University - Evidencing the ImpactFascinating insight into the work of Dr Lesley Ingram-Sills. The podcast covers her journey into the outdoors, her - and the wider team at Napier's - research into e-bikes and trail therapy, along with her excitement into what the new mountain bike innovation centre will deliver for research and industry when opened in 2025.Enjoy.Trail Therapy Evaluation - https://dmbins.com/blog/evaluating-the-impact-of-trail-t...
How did Scotty get into mountain biking? What about those early days racing downhill? What's changed over the years to grow his love of riding at home? We sat down with him to find out all this and more. In this podcast, our Head of Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland - Graeme McLean, chats with Scotty Laughland on how he got into bikes, his experience as a pro rider, transitioning into the media, and during lockdown rediscovering Scottish mountain biking. The podcast...
18 Mar 2022
Dik Hamilton - Building Trails in the Tweed Valley
The Tweed Valley has a huge amount of iconic trails that are well known, well loved, and well ridden. There were very few people involved in the design and creation of these trails, 20 years ago, and here we speak to (he will not like this but we think he really is!) a real local legend, Dik Hamilton. Dik Hamilton, was responsible for trails such as Berm Baby Berm, which he built entirely single handedly, with his five ton digger, the free ride and skills areas, Blue Velvet, the Mu...
11 May 2021
MTB Trail Therapy and Green Health Partnerships
How does being immersed and active in nature help improve mental health?Paul MacFarlane, Trail Therapy MTB Leader with Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland, chats with Viola Marx the Green Health Partnership Coordinator within Dundee City Council on how green health partnerships operate and her hopes in using mountain biking as part of the process of recovery from periods of mental ill-health.Viola then turns the questions on Paul where she explores the mountain bike scene including its acc...
19 Dec 2020
Responsible Mountain Bike Access - Understanding the pressures on the outdoors with the increase in riders from Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought many new riders into our sport. In this podcast, representatives from NatureScot, Forestry and Land Scotland and mountain bike journalist, Aoife Glass, look at how we can keep them riding whilst educating them on responsible access, and also look at our cumulative impact on the environment. Just what has been the Covid impact on our outdoors? How do we mitigate against any negative impacts to this growth in accessing the outdoors.The interview was part of the...
19 Dec 2020
Sustainable Mountain Bike Trail Models - Global examples of good practice
Trevor Ferrao from Whistler Off Road Cycling Association (WORCA) explains how they have led the stewardship of mountain biking trails in the Whistler valley for over 30 years.Simon Christensen, Silkeborg Kommune, Denmark explains how a structured partnership approach of investment from Local Government and nature protection agencies has helped grow the trail network working with volunteers.PayDirt is Santa Cruz’s commitment to increasing access to trails by supporting the work of people who m...
18 Dec 2020
Outdoor Ethics in Mountain Biking in Scotland
Open access, ebikes, enduro bikes, adventure, instagram – is this all sustainable in Scottish mountain biking? Do we need create a set of outdoor ethics for Scottish mountain bikers? In this session, recorded live at the Scottish MTB Gathering 2020, we will hear from industry experts and seasoned mountain bikers on this sometimes hot topic. How has the mountain bike scene changed over the years? How do we as a community address these issues? Who should be driving forward a forward thinking ap...
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