Innerleithen Mountain Bike Project

The hub s going to be based at one of the old textile mills the last one standing called caerlee mill and we re going to try and get our college course based in there in around 2024 says andy barlow from dirt school.

Innerleithen mountain bike project. The proposal will build on the existing work of the mountain bike centre of scotland and will see significant investment in a new innovation centre in innerleithen that will support scottish uk and international businesses to develop innovative products and services within the mountain biking sector. Mtb project is built by riders like you. Their award winning trails offer some of the best mountain biking in the country and attract riders from all over the uk and beyond. It s very early days but we are working towards identifying a model to create a hub for the mountain bike industry to locate here and grow in innerleithen.

Innerleithen 2. May lead to creation of new innerliethen bike park. The community will now start the process of raising 5m pounds to fund the project. These centers typically have full services bike shop offering rentals cafe toilets bike showers people showers etc but they get a lot of traffic and bring some coins to pay to park in the carpark.

Next generation mountain bike trail maps. Uplift service at innerleithen and ae now open for bookings. You can rent mountain bikes in the town of innerleithen or at glentress. A public consultation will be held on 24 january at 7pm in the innerleithen memorial hall leithen road innerleithen.

The 7stanes are world class mountain biking centres that span the south of scotland. Mtb project is built by riders like you. A bid to create a mountain bike innovation centre in the scottish borders is gathering pace. An outline business case is being drawn up for the project said to be the only one of its kind in europe.

Dozens of mountain bike orientated businesses have opened and now there s news that an industry hub and potential bike park has secured funding. Innerleithen ramble between the stanes. A world class bike park in the tweed valley is also part of the proposals. Views are being sought to help move forward an exciting project for the development of europe s only mountain bike innovation centre located alongside a world class bike park in the tweed valley.

Planning permission for a mountain bike chairlift in the borders village of innerleithen has been approved. 30 7 mi 49 4 km loop 3 099 ft ascent 944 54 m ascent. Developing mountain biking scotland s ed shoote.