To book:

For all of our essentials courses we maintain a strict 2:6 ratio-we don't squeeze as many of you in as we can.  Tracy and I always run our own essentials courses-we will never, ever sub them out (we love it), the most important thing to us is that you get what you need for your riding.
Both of us are qualified Mountain Bike Leaders and have all our tickets to keep you safe and well looked after.

We are also the only guiding company that operate in Glentress that pay the Forestry Commission for the privilege-which means when you are guided by us you are putting something back into the trails that you just rode!

If you are looking for something different then feel free to mail us and it may be possible to arrange another date.  Also if you are a group looking for your own day and none of these suits then we may be able to cater for you-just give us an idea of what you want.


The forest can get quite busy at weekends which are why most of our courses run on Fridays, but if you can only make a weekend then contact us to arrange.

Important course info.

Every course starts at the Hub Café for introductions and coffee (very important).  Then your bike is loaded onto the trailer after we’ve touched on bike set up-so bring it along with you. 
We then take you and your bike to the Buzzards Nest car park in the minibus and get started on the skills for the morning. 
Lunch is included in the price which we normally have at the café, (if the weather is kind we’ll eat on the hill), and at the end of the day we finish with coffee and cake, usually whilst watching the video footage of you we have shot during the day.  A DVD of your day will be sent post course so you can remind yourself what you have learnt and what you need to work on.

We recommend that everyone uses flat pedals-whatever course you book onto.  The advantage of using flats-if you don’t already-is that you can really perfect the skills techniques without feeling inhibited by being clipped in.  They also make you really think about your skills as there’s no hiding poor technique on flat pedals. 
It is of course entirely up to you but even if you give it a shot then go back to clipped in later in the day you will find it advantageous.  If you don’t have flat pedals we can provide them for you-just bring along a good pair of flat soled shoes-anything like skate shoe type footwear will be perfect.

We recommend:
DMR pedals and Shimano MP56 shoes:

http://www.dmrbikes.co.uk

http://bike.shimano.com