The main MTB club in Bristol, many of their rides revolve around Ashton Court which is a good place to improve your technical ability and build up fitness for those more demanding circuits in South Wales. The club venture out of Bristol on a regular basis not just across the bridge but also down to the Salisbury plain and trails in the Mendips.

The first major Welsh club you come to if you cross the bridge, they not only ride at Cwmcarn but have excellent knowledge of the mountain trails around Machen.

The Mountain Goates are the next biggest club you can get to in a reasonable

time. Rides are organised  every weekend on Saturday. The rides start at 8:30 am from the car park in Nelson (follow the link on the left for a map) and cover most parts of the Valleys, with forays further afield to the Brecon Beacons, Black Mountains, Forest of Dean and  Mid Wales. The Forest Enterprise tracks at Cwmcarn and  Afan Argoed are often visited, and they organise trips to North Wales to sample the Coed-y-Brenin, Nant-yr-Arian and Bettws-y-Coed routes during the summer months. The summit of Snowdon was ridden last year and will be repeated again as it was such good fun...one not to be missed.

The Club attends various organised events every year, and provides support to club members thanks to the help of a Sportlot grant which has allowed the Club to purchase a set of bike tools and a pop-up gazebo to allow bike servicing in the dry, whatever the weather. If we've gone camping to the event, we have a club barbeque the evening before the race and have a good time.

The Club has also  organised longer trips to the Lake District (Tim Woodcock's Lakeland Loop) and the Sierra Nevadas in Spain . We try to offer a varied mountain biking experience that means the weekend ride is most definitely the high spot of your week.....why not come along and give it a go?

The Mtb Pigs is a Swansea based mountain bike club where the emphasis is very much on having fun. The heart of the Club is the regular Thursday night ride. They ride all year round, usually in Clyne woods or around Gower, starting at 7:15 from the car park at the bottom of the Clyne valley cycle path and finishing off in the West Cross Inn for a drink afterwards.

There is quite a mixed ability within the group so most riding abilities are catered for. Weekend and other weekday rides around Gower, Clyne, Kilvey Hill or at one of the forestry centres like Glyncorrwg, Afan Argoed or Brechfa, are often organised through the forum. Some of the club members ride & race Downhill. DH sessions, uplift days etc. are also organised through the Forum.

Riding the Gower

Worms Head can be seen in the background