1st August 2011 Jon Swift
It's long overdue but the wheels are now in motion with a feasibility study on building a visitor centre at Futures Park at the bottom of Lee Quarry. There's a range...
31st July 2011 Jon Swift
The second race in the Hope Technology sponsored series saw great weather and close racing on a shorter main course than usual. The course design included a couple...
28th July 2011 Jon Swift
A new company has been founded 'with the vision and objective of creating a World-class mountain bike facility in Northern England'. It's early days but from what...
27th July 2011 Jon Swift
Yesterday saw the first evening 'dig day' at Gisburn Forest and despite the after hours timing we had a pretty good turn out. Arranged on the hoof via Facebook (I...
17th July 2011 Jon Swift
After hours of messing around with PayPal accounts and Javascript (and drinking significant quantities of Java beans) we've finally got online membership working....
12th July 2011 Jon Swift
Last weekend saw the third annual Singletrack magazine Weekender, this year sponsored by Shimano through their UK importers, Madison. We were there as well, did...
6th July 2011 Jon Swift
Finally we have a map for the trails at Lee and Cragg Quarries so there should be no more hunting for that elusive link across across to Cragg or excuses for not...
3rd July 2011 Jon Swift
Gisburn's planning application for a significant upgrade of the existing car parking facilities has been given the OK by Ribble Valley Council. The application submitted...
2nd July 2011 Jon Swift
Manchester Mountain Bikers are the latest group to become founding members of P.M.B.A. They have made a generous donation to the P.M.B.A fighting fund and join a...
1st July 2011 Jon Swift
Race 2 is fast approaching so get ready for a new course and more fun in the quarry. Race 1 saw some of the new trails built to train the British Cycling XC squad...
21st June 2011 Jon Swift
As some of you may be aware Gisburn's got great plans for a new car park and skills area along with better facilities. It’s currently going through the planning...
15th June 2011 Jon Swift
With a record 131 riders signing on to start the first race of 2011 the series started as a roaring success. Despite poor weather during the course setup (the local...
6th June 2011 Jon Swift
We just received news of a fantastic offer of massively reduced Bikeability Assisatant Training, the catch is it's this weekend.
Groundwork Pennine Lancashire have...
5th June 2011 Jon Swift
For once the local mountain rescue team weren't at Gisburn to pull someone out of Hully Gully. Instead two of their members and Jon Swift of the Gisburn Volunteer...
31st May 2011 Jon Swift
Plans to extend the Lee Quarry Trail network over into nearby Facit Quarry are a step closer this week after site meetings were held to discuss the proposed trails....
17th May 2011 Jon Swift
HOPE XC SERIES 2011 COACHING INITIATIVE
As part of Brownback's aim to encourage riders into the sport side of mountain biking they are providing a great initiative...