As we mention last week there will be a full program of biking events at this years Cliffhanger event in Graves Park.including cycle speedway, Rollapaluza, Trials Display, Timber Trail, and the Shopper World Cup. You should be able to get involved and have a go with most of these and they will be running all day on both days. But here are some details of a couple of the events you would like to get involved with on the Saturday….
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Sheffield Moors Partnership Access and Recreation Focus Group Meeting, June 26
Photo – www.johnhorscroft.co.uk The Sheffield Moors Partnership has brought together all the bodies who manage moorland on the fringes of Sheffield. The National Trust, RSPB, Peak District National Park Authority, Sheffield Wildlife Trust and others have joined forces to see how much they can synchronise their management policies across some of the most popular and important moorland in the country. (more…)
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Blacka Dig Days
After last years successful work on the Devils Elbow Bridleway on Blacka, the Wildlife Trust has some more bits of work planned to improve a couple of spots of drainage and fill in a couple of sections that got missed out or have work away since the initial work.
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Social Ride
With light nights slowly drifting away from us; but with still enough to enjoy a good ride out into the Peak, it seemed like a good time for our annual social ride.So next Thursday the 5th of July we will be heading out…
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Cliffhanger = Bike Heaven
Sheffield continues to stake its claim to be the (un)official outdoors capital of the country and helping with that is the Cliffhanger Festival. Now in its fifth incarnation it has continued to realise that mountain bikers and cyclists make up a big part of the outdoors community and is offering its biggest bike programme so far.
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M Holland Servicing
While the calendars might be saying mid June, trail conditions can seem a bit mid January at the moment which means that our bike parts seem to have taken a bit of a hammering at the moment. If you’re a bit of a lazy mechanic or don’t want to faff around posting your forks off, there is now another option in Sheffield: mhollandserving.
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Strength In Numbers Competition – Who can ride the furthest?
Not only is “Strength in Numbers”, the eagerly awaited new mountain bike film from Anthill Films, the guys behind The Collective series of films, Follow Me and From the Inside Out; but it accurately captures what make Ride Sheffield work well. The more mountain bikers we represent, the stronger we are….
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Digging Update
We have had a bit of a lull of late on the digging front, but we are going to try to get a few more regular dig days going over the next few months…..
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Women’s Ride
A womens only ride is something we have been trying to do for quite a while, but always struggle to find the right date that suited all. But finally with the longer and warmer evenings we finally have a date for you….
On Thursday the 14th of June you need to be getting yourself down to the Hunters Bar roundabout entrance to Endcliffe Park for 6:30pm. The ride is being led by Sue Duke and stilettos on Wheels Emma Peasland. (more…)
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‘Stop, Stand Speak’ – Keeping safe around horses
We were recently forwarded this from the local horse riders with advice on dealing with horses mores safely, the ‘Stop, Stand Speak’ advice is pretty sound to minimise startling horses. Here is the full info and video from Forestry Commission Wales below….
Respect: Share the Trail, a new video produced by Forestry Commission Wales in association with The British Horse Society, shows bikers how to help keep Wales’s forests safe by being more aware of horse riders sharing the popular paths: “Stop, Stand, Speak”. (more…)
