We’re celebrating the hard-working folk responsible for the trails we love to ride with our MBR Trail of the Year competition in association with SRAM. We asked you, our readers, to vote for your favourite new UK trails of 2019 in two categories: Commercially built and volunteer built. With great pleasure we can now reveal the winners.
As ever with the Trail Of The Year awards the response for nominations was incredible. All kinds of trails from across the country were put forward and after collating your suggestions seven finalists for each category emerged. We then asked you to vote for your favourites and when the polls closed we were left with two very worthy winners.
Hamsterley and LUBP are each worthy winners of MBR Trail Of The Year awards. Each takes the concept of creating a trail that is fun to ride whatever your ability but their locations couldn’t be more different. Both, though, are much more than just good places to ride. These trails are being used to drive change and to grow the sport and develop new riders while at the same time keeping experienced riders coming back for more. It’s not an easy task but when it works it works well, so it’s no surprise that both K-Line and LUBP Red Trail have won over MBR readers.
Both trails also show that mountain biking and trail building in particular can be a catalyst for bigger and better things – bringing people together, giving a sense of purpose and rewarding efforts, both on and off the bike. Time on the bike is precious but time spent building new places to ride is equally worthwhile.
Trail Of The Year finalists: Commercially built
Leeds Urban Bike Park -Red Trail, 38%
Revolution Bike Park – Vision Line, 33%
BikePark Wales – Enter The Dragon, 10%
Dyfi Bike Park, 9%
Coed-y-Brenin – MinorTaur Blue Trail, 6%
Dirt Factory Indoor Bike Park, 2%
Nant yr Arian – Blue Trail, 2%
Trail Of The Year finalists: Volunteer built (wins £2,000 of funding from SRAM)
K-Line Trail (Hamsterley Trailblazers) – Hamsterley Forest, 29%
Oakwell Hall (Ride Kirklees), 20%
Woburn Bike Park (Woburn Bike Trails) – Longslade Trail, 13%
Forest Of Dean (Dean Trail Volunteers) – Verderers, 10%
Cannock Chase (Chase Trails) – Follow The Dog, 10%
Gisburn Forest (Gisburn Foret Trail Builders) – The Long Way Down, 10%
Innerleithen (Tweed Valley Trails Association) – New York, New York, 8%
Thanks to Porsche GB for the loan of the Cayenne E-Hybrid.
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30 Comments
No tech??
Mbr pays well. Milners in a Porsche!
Big up LUBP 💚💚
no swinley forest…
I may be an outlier here, but i much prefer technical singletrack to groomed hardpack. Loam and leaves for me please.
Florida mountain biking is very very surprising just posted a vid of the best in Florida go check it out
Hahaha! Love that statement.. as a Golf Pro myself, yes! I'd say I'm much more enjoying cycling as if it were "the new golf" lol
Go on leeds urb, sick place.
Who is voting?? That’s not mountain biking
K-line is good but christ I'd rather goto chopwell woods than climb that monster hill at hamsterly
My local lubp
Didn’t know older Zac Efron worked for SRAM 😂
Any trail from Sheffield on here? Well I can drive to Leeds and cycle😁
All looks a little bit smooth and a bit boring for my liking.
I cringe when he says dify
Enjoyed this, a good look at some prime riding locations across the UK and the folks behind them 👍
2020 trail of year fort hill and thunder mountain bike park
Happy to see that my local Innerleithen trails are in the top few
Revolution bike park all day is the winner for me. They have only built on 25% of the land they have to build on so far onwards and upwards.
Pronounce Dyfi wrong 😖
Love it, KLINE transfers is where it is at
A. Rafferty can still throw down the steez… even in an XC helmet. 😜
What trail was at 1:41? That looks ACE 😀 m/
Leeds urban is my go to spot . Literally the best spot
£2000 prize fund from SRAM fucking pathetic
no swinley:(
Bike parks are NOT trails.
Best value for the money
Guff
Have both the girls and boys bike they are worth every penny