British Cycling Trail Leader Training

Overview

You’ll hone your leadership skills on some of Snowdonia’s most challenging mountain bike venues. We’ll give you an outline of the procedures and criteria for your assessment so you’ll know what to expect. Our friendly, highly qualified instructors will help you to achieve the level where you can safely guide riders in mountainous terrain and provide them with a great day out.

We’re surrounded by some of the finest mountain biking routes in Europe, with world-class single-track routes, including the Gwydyr Forest trails and the Penmachno Trail right outside our back door. Other classic trails at Coed y Brenin and Coed Llandegla are only a short drive from our centre. Plus, there’s the iconic ride of Snowdon.

But you’ll also find purpose-built skills and coaching circuit and bike workshop facility with a wide range of tools and resources, plus maps to help you get the most from the area.

The Objectives

You’ll develop all the skills and knowledge you need to start your journey to being a qualified MTB leader.

What to Expect

Day 1 – You’ll cover trailside repairs, group leadership, and have an introduction to MTB navigation

Experience Required

You should be a competent MTB rider with good level of fitness. Be a member of British Cycling if you are not already a member (Ride membership minimum) https://membership.britishcycling.org.uk/

How Should I Prepare?

You’ll need experience in riding red graded trails, have a good variety of personal riding experience and be able to ride 25km in the mountains. Please keep an up to date Logbook of your rides. This logbook will enable you to keep a record of your mountain bike rides as a form of evidence that you are sufficiently prepared to lead groups in a variety of terrain and weather conditions. You can download the British Cycling Logbook via this link: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/mtbleadership/article/20180917-mtb-leadership-static-Mountain-Bike-Leadership-Logbook-0