Swift Trails - Mountain Bike Courses and Guided Rides for Women

Featured Courses

Courses

Introduction to MTB – Absolute Beginners!

£50.00

Courses

Mountain Biking for Novice Riders

£50.00

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Intermediate MTB

£50.00

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Introduction to Inners – Uplift Day

£85.00

Courses

Private tuition and Groups

£75.00 – £150.00

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Enjoyro Practice Day – Tweedlove Transcend Bike Festival

£25.00

Courses

Wheeled Wildlings!

£75.00

Courses

Bike Maintenance Workshops

£25.00

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Winter Warriors 2019

£60.00

Mountain Bike Coaching & Guiding for Women in Scotland

Based at Glentress Forest just twenty five miles south of Edinburgh, Swift Trails run mountain biking courses, guided rides, bike maintenance workshops and family fun days – all designed to inspire confidence in the female biker.

We believe mountain biking should be accessible to all riders regardless of their fitness or skill levels. Whether its fun and relaxed mountain biking, riding some of the most stunning mountain bike trails The Tweed Valley has to offer or developing your riding technique and confidence with qualified British Cycling coaches, Swift Trails guarantees a positive and memorable experience.

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Top tips for keeping warm on the bike

So its been pretty Baltic here over the past two weeks and if you’re anything like me you struggle to keep warm when out on the bike – in particular its my feet and hands that really suffer. I thought I’d conduct a survey amongst the Swift Trails Facebook biker-ladies...

New Year social ride

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
Join us for a social ride round the Blue trails at Glentress Forest. ...

Peebles Outdoor Film Festival

Friday 26th January to Sunday 28th January.
We’re delighted to be supporting the Peebles Outdoor Film Festival for the third year running. ...

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The Glen Estate and Loch Eddy ride is big on spectacular views. It’s always a surprise for folk when we drop down off the moor and find this pretty little fishing Loch complete with Victorian boathouse. For more amazing rides in the Tweed Valley and beyond go to swift-trails.co.uk #locheddy #glenestate #gotweedvalley #ridenatural

The Glen Estate and Loch Eddy ride is big on spectacular views. It’s always a surprise for folk when we drop down off the moor and find this pretty little fishing Loch complete with Victorian boathouse. For more amazing rides in the Tweed Valley and beyond go to swift-trails.co.uk #locheddy #glenestate #gotweedvalley #ridenatural

Great to have @nicolaharrison7155 with us on Saturday to help lead the ride to the Glen Estate & Loch Eddy. Nicola is working towards her Level 2 MTB leader qualification. She did a fine job looking after us and gave some good advice and Tips when we came to some trickier sections on the route. Good job Nic! #level2mtbleadership #smbla #glenestate #bikeleadership #mtbguide

Great to have @nicolaharrison7155 with us on Saturday to help lead the ride to the Glen Estate & Loch Eddy. Nicola is working towards her Level 2 MTB leader qualification. She did a fine job looking after us and gave some good advice and Tips when we came to some trickier sections on the route. Good job Nic! #level2mtbleadership #smbla #glenestate #bikeleadership #mtbguide

Chapeau! to my amazing, courageous and oh so wise 70 year old step-dad who accepted my invitation to bike the C2C with me last week. Even in good conditions this 150 mile route from the west to east coast of the UK would have been a challenge but we were thrown 40mph headwinds and torrential rain in addition to thousands of feet of climbing. Here we are biking through the centre of Newcastle. A route of diverse landscapes, accents and culture. Fabulous! #sustrans #C2C #bikepacking

Chapeau! to my amazing, courageous and oh so wise 70 year old step-dad who accepted my invitation to bike the C2C with me last week. Even in good conditions this 150 mile route from the west to east coast of the UK would have been a challenge but we were thrown 40mph headwinds and torrential rain in addition to thousands of feet of climbing. Here we are biking through the centre of Newcastle. A route of diverse landscapes, accents and culture. Fabulous! #sustrans #C2C #bikepacking

Biking and filming today with BBC News discussing the European Elections of all things!! Glad I had the weekend to do some revision but we did a good job show-casing our beautiful Tweed Valley - with @emmaguy #europeanelections2019 #bbcscotlandnews #politics #brexit

Biking and filming today with BBC News discussing the European Elections of all things!! Glad I had the weekend to do some revision but we did a good job show-casing our beautiful Tweed Valley - with @emmaguy #europeanelections2019 #bbcscotlandnews #politics #brexit

Really enjoyed meeting folk at the Transcend Enjoyro practice day on Saturday. A real mix of riders with a variety of experiences whose enthusiasm came together to make a great day out on the trails. Some great sessioning allowed us to pick apart some of the more challenging features. #transcendbikefestival #tweedlove #inners #innerleithenmtb #enduro #raceready

Really enjoyed meeting folk at the Transcend Enjoyro practice day on Saturday. A real mix of riders with a variety of experiences whose enthusiasm came together to make a great day out on the trails. Some great sessioning allowed us to pick apart some of the more challenging features. #transcendbikefestival #tweedlove #inners #innerleithenmtb #enduro #raceready

This is Libby. Libby is 60. Libby has entered Transcend Enjoyro. Be like Libby- set no limits to what you can achieve in your life. Respect Libby! #enjoyro #transcendbikefestival #womenwhocan #santacruztallboy #innersxc #mtbskills #enduromtb #enjoyropracticeday #tweedlove

This is Libby. Libby is 60. Libby has entered Transcend Enjoyro. Be like Libby- set no limits to what you can achieve in your life. Respect Libby! #enjoyro #transcendbikefestival #womenwhocan #santacruztallboy #innersxc #mtbskills #enduromtb #enjoyropracticeday #tweedlove

Really recommend exploring the trails over at West Linton. Both the Old Drove road and Old Roman Road are good biking trails and we able to bike off road for just over 20km with only a short section on very quiet country lanes. Good post ride feed at the wee cafe in West Linton afterwards too! #droveroad ##tweedtrails #SoSCT #gotweedvalley

Really recommend exploring the trails over at West Linton. Both the Old Drove road and Old Roman Road are good biking trails and we able to bike off road for just over 20km with only a short section on very quiet country lanes. Good post ride feed at the wee cafe in West Linton afterwards too! #droveroad ##tweedtrails #SoSCT #gotweedvalley

Big skies were the order of the day on yesterday’s April ride-out over at West Linton. Great to meet some new folk on this really stunning ride #miniadventures #naturalrides #romanroads #mtbskills #mtbskillscoaching #girlswhomtb

Big skies were the order of the day on yesterday’s April ride-out over at West Linton. Great to meet some new folk on this really stunning ride #miniadventures #naturalrides #romanroads #mtbskills #mtbskillscoaching #girlswhomtb

Excellent morning with Elaine who had lost her MTB mojo after a nasty crash last year. Great to see her confidence restored on some tricky sections of Zoom or Bust - and her MTB vavoom!! #glentressforest #mtbskills #zoomorbust #girlswhocan #gotweedvalley #mtbroots #rootytooty #mtbscotland

Excellent morning with Elaine who had lost her MTB mojo after a nasty crash last year. Great to see her confidence restored on some tricky sections of Zoom or Bust - and her MTB vavoom!! #glentressforest #mtbskills #zoomorbust #girlswhocan #gotweedvalley #mtbroots #rootytooty #mtbscotland

Fabulous day up in Dunkeld with @clarelouiseblack - now officially my favourite place after the Tweed Valley (of course) and Glenelg! 40km loop taking in Loch Ordie and the lochs north of there. Stunning scenery with the added bonus of coming across an Adder basking in the sun. Route maps available at @progressionbikes #Dunkeld #lochordie #adderscotland #mtbdunkeld #miniadventure #girlsonbikes

Fabulous day up in Dunkeld with @clarelouiseblack - now officially my favourite place after the Tweed Valley (of course) and Glenelg! 40km loop taking in Loch Ordie and the lochs north of there. Stunning scenery with the added bonus of coming across an Adder basking in the sun. Route maps available at @progressionbikes #Dunkeld #lochordie #adderscotland #mtbdunkeld #miniadventure #girlsonbikes