It’s never good news to start the day with news that someone has been out to try and trash your trails. When you dig fun little trails hidden from view (or permission) this is often part of the game. Gutting, but part of the game. But it is pretty unusual to have sanctioned trails damaged. But that’s what happened up in Greno Woods the Sunday before last.
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Blacka Moor dig day – Devil’s Elbow
What a winter! The deluge has barely stopped since October and it has resulted in some serious damage on Devil’s Elbow. On a number of occasions, it has become a stream and much of the work we’ve done over the last ten years has taken a hammering,
However, lots of our good friends have stepped up to the plate to help us put it right. First up, the Sheffield City Council Rights of Way Team have provided suitable material to do the repairs. Deposited just below the stables on Shorts Lane, we need to move it to the foot of Devil’s Elbow and BikeTrack have offered to help with that using a mini-digger and dumper. The Alpkit Foundation have undertaken to cover the cost of the plant, proving that the outdoor community can really work together.
The dig-day is going to be on the 14th March from 9.30am onwards and we’re going to need all the help we can get! So if you can help all day or just for an hour, please come along. Tools and food will be provided, (again thanks to SCC and BikeTrack respectively).
More details can be found on our Facebook page here and event page here.
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Ride Sheffield Winter Social 2019: 10 year special!
This year’s Winter Social on the 25th of November is a bit of a special one, as we are celebrating our 10th Birthday! Yes, time flies when you are having fun on your bikes and riding in Sheffield can certainly be as fun as it gets! But what’s almost as good fun as riding your bikes is hanging out with your mates over a beer and chatting about bikes and good times. Add in some top-notch entertainment from the Shred Talk hosted by Downtime Podcast, some excellent prizes to be won in the quiz and the raffle, a little bit of merch from ourselves and Bolehills and some of Sheffield finest brands showing of their good too.
A lot has happened in the past 10 years and we may have to toast a couple of our successes and just what an awesome place Sheffield is to ride a mountain bike. We will also be updating you on some of our key projects such as Redmires and Cut Gate and other exciting developments in the city, as well as looking forward at how we (and you) would like to see Ride Sheffield developing in the next 10 years. Finally, we will then give you a quick update on what we have done with Rad Tax this year, quickly rattle through our AGM and then we will be moving on to the more entertaining aspects of the evening….
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Managing Public Rights of Way for Quality Mountain Biker Experiences
Last November we put out a shout for local rider, racer and all round good sort Emma Peasland who was writing her dissertation for the MSc Environmental Management course at Sheffield Hallam University. She got a pretty impressive response and lots of people attended her thought-provoking workshops.
It also generated her a huge amount information which she had the pleasure of ploughing through while the rest of us were enjoying festive rides and ploughing through turkey and christmas pudding!
But now the work is all done and she has more time to ride her bike, bask in the glory of a job well done (It got a very good mark!) and also give us a chance to see her findings. So in here it is in her own words…… (more…)
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Oh what a tangled web….
I’d been planning to pen a few words about the dangers of the worldwide web but, wouldn’t you know it, fate has stepped in to make it a necessity. I recently posted a whimsical little piece on Ride Sheffield which gently poked fun at some of our hard-pressed public servants yet carried what I thought was a serious message. My mistake was to forget that something written in the comfort of your own home with a cup of tea at your elbow looks different through the weird filter of the internet. I was soon receiving emails from seriously unamused officialdom who had simply been doing their best in difficult circumstances.
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SHAFF this weekend!! Bike films galore….
Get yourselves down to the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival this weekend for a feast of top class bike films. There are blockbusters like Where The Trail Ends and Strength in Numbers, shorts that are guaranteed to please all tastes such as the excellent Martyn Ashton’s Road Bike Party, Rockville, a celebration of a quirky cyclocross race in Italy and the, frankly, incredibly controversial Line of Sight, a frantic celebration of illegal road racing in the States that contains some of the most outrageously gung-ho dialogue I’ve heard since Rocky 1,2 and 3.
If you’re a climber, surfer or kayaker, then there’s more to go at including the stunning Wide Boyz celebration of Brits taking on and beating America’s toughest crack climbs, the engaging Endless Winter, an elegy to British surfing and many more. The festival has contributed to the Ride Sheffield trail fund so put your hands in your pockets and support this growing Sheffield institution!
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Riding along on a trail made for two….
Mountain bikers have a problem, an image problem. While we see ourselves as a bunch of fun-loving free spirits, much of the rest of the outdoor community see us as gung-ho idiots who aren’t happy unless we’re mowing down senior citizens. Now, some of you might not give a rat’s arse about having an image problem, but it’s fair to say that coming across as Attila the Hun on two wheels means that in the future we’ll have less trails to ride, not more. Confused? I’ll explain. (more…)