Manon Carpenter & Tommy Wilkinson – Trails On Trial - a podcast by Downtime MTB

This week we’re sitting down with Manon Carpenter and Tommy Wilkinson to chat all about their new film project, 'Trails on Trial'. Find out how the project came about in the first place, and hear about their experiences as they travelled around the country to chat with trail builders and landowners. With rising user numbers across all outdoors groups, trail access is under more pressure than ever before. Manon and Tommy found some great examples of where mountain bikers have been able to work together with landowners to create incredible trails like those in the Tweed Valley. This is a really positive outlook on what can be done to keep our awesome wild trails up and running, with some really useful thoughts on what all of us can do to help. So sit back, hit play and listen to this episode about 'Trails on Trial' with Manon and Tommy.







You can watch the film over on YouTube here.







You can learn more about the trail associations and groups featured in the film by visiting:







Ride Sheffield ridesheffield.org.uk







Developing Mountain biking in Scotland: dmbins.com







The Tweed Valley Trail Association: tweedvalleytrails.org







Risca Riders: gofundme.com/f/riscarider...







You can read the current national guidelines from UK agencies by clicking the following links:







Forestry England: forestryengland.uk/articl...







Scottish Unauthorised trail guide: dmbins.com/trails/unauthorise...







Natural Resource Wales: naturalresources.wales/permit...







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