About Ride Bristol
Our Purpose
Ride Bristol is preserving Bristol’s mountain biking future. We’re raising funds, maintaining the trails and building a community.
We’re protecting and maintaining Bristol’s awesome network of off-road routes, ensuring they stay safe, fun and progressive for riders of all levels for years to come.
And we’re looking to the future, hunting out opportunities to grow our existing trails and build new ones, catering to newbies and experts alike. We’re acting as a link between the community and the landowners, building relationships and creating positive conversations.
But we can’t do it without the community. People are the lifeblood of Ride Bristol and we’re growing a network of people that will love, protect and celebrate our trails. We’ll create opportunities for people to volunteer their time and expertise as well as to simply enjoy the trails and be a part of something worthwhile.
Our values
Our values guide what we do and how we do it.
High quality trails
Great trails create great experiences which encourage more people to ride more often.
Welcoming
Everyone should have the opportunity to participate in off-road cycling and volunteering.
Think big
We should think big, take inspiration from all over the world and aspire to make Bristol’s trails the envy of the UK and the world.
Community
Volunteering and being part of a community help people to appreciate the trails we’ve got and feel good about themselves.
Making Stuff Happen
We’re here to get stuff done. We’re not afraid of a meeting or two but we’re always pushing forward for that next dig day, meet-up, fundraiser or campaign.
We're stronger together
The more people we work with and connect with, the more we can achieve. Especially where we work with a broad and diverse range of people.
Meet the trustees
Sustainable trails, partnerships with landowners, riding groups driving this change, I see this around the UK and think, Ride Bristol can help make it happen here.
Working to develop a great network of connected off-road trails, accessible from all over the city, creating a broad range of long-term, sanctioned new trails in the Bristol area, for riders of different levels, styles…
I wish I’d discovered mountain biking decades ago – it’s great escaping to the woods and has become my medicine, so I’m keen to introduce others to it!
I am joining RB as an Existing Trails Trustee and will hopefully be helping to increase the number of dig days that we run. I have a background in the construction industry both as a civil engineer and more recently in project management.
I have been enjoying riding the Bristol trails for about twenty years and I am looking forward to being able to give something back and to see our local trail network improve and grow.
The calm connection with nature is a huge part of why I ride bikes and I care very much about the environment that provides the playground for our mountain biking community.
As a Wild Trails trustee, I want to help maximise the opportunities for technical riding around Bristol in a way that is sustainable and ensures enjoyment and wellbeing for generations to come.
I’m a former racer, but now I put my energy and passion for MTB into community projects.
I lead Bristol Shredders, a kids mountain bike club, as well as running various social group rides across Bristol.
I was a founding trustee of Ride Bristol and love the opportunity it provides for opening MTB up to more people. With great trails, great access, great promotion and community activities, we are turning an already awesome outdoor city into one that is perfect for live on two wheels.
My day job also involves a lot of MTB, or at least thinking, writing and talking about it. I’m an academic at Bristol Uni where I specialise in examining exclusion in sports and physical activity. Particularly I research women’s navigation of masculine sports cultures and work with policy and industry to open mountain biking up to more women and girls.
You’ll find me riding the Bristol singletrack, often trying to keep up with my kids. Or further afield, I’ll be roaming on my gravel bike, looking for a good spot to camp.
Having only taken up MTB relatively recently, I have quickly grown to love the sport, the feeling of being connected to the great outdoors, and the sense of community I get from fellow riders.
Inspired to give something back I am a Ride Leader and love nothing more than introducing people to new trails.
I love creating content, sharing stories about cycling and the fact that Bristol has allowed me to live a life geared around two wheels.
I really believe we have the potential to make our city a showcase for cycling in the UK, and maybe even the World. We’re not there yet but there’s bags of scope to grow and an amazing community to tap into.
I want to help RideBristol shout about the huge benefits that off-road cycling, trail building and the cycling community can offer… and then use that to push us forward to even bigger and better things.
You can reach me here.