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Latest news:
- Eat, Sleep, Ride 7stanes!
- Glentress Trailfairies website
- New toilets and shower facilities at Newcastleton
- Upgrade to Buzzards Nest car park at Glentress
- IMBA UK/CTC Conference in Tweed Valley, September 2010
- Bike hire now available at Newcastleton
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Other articles:
- Venerable North Shore at Ewok Village joins great Black Trail in the sky
- 7stanes photo competition results
- Tweed Valley Mountain Bikers hospitality scheme
- 7stanes user survey
- Weekly MTB group at Dalbeattie for all levels
- Regular MTB group at Mabie for all levels
There's more information on what's happening around the 7stanes in our press releases section.
Events:
- See the 7stanes events page for more details.
Latest news
01/06/10 Eat, Sleep, Ride 7stanes!
Here's your chance to visit all the 7stanes trails and win £500 to spend on bike gear!
All you have to do is visit each Stane and collect two stamps from participating businesses in the area, then send your completed form to us for entry into the prize draw.
More details on the eat sleep ride page. Closing date for entries is 31st March 2011.
05/05/10 Glentress Trailfairies website
The Glentress Trailfairies - volunteers who help build and maintain trails at Glentress and Innerleithen - now have their own website at www.glentresstrailfairies.org. It has all you need to know about the group as well as details of the projects they've worked on, a forum, latest news etc.
05/05/10 New toilets and showers at Newcastleton
You can now hit the Newcastleton trails and then grab a shower afterwards at a new facility in Newcastleton village.
The two showers and two toilets are free to use and are just a stone's throw from Douglas Square on Langholm street, next to the Fire station. There's also a new information point in Douglas Square with all you need to know about the 7stanes trails and the facilities available in the village.
These are the first bits of work by the Newcastleton Business Group, Scottish Enterprise, Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish Border Council, Rock UK and others to enhance facilities and progress towards making Newcastleton village itself the trailhead. To make this work, plans are being developed to create singletrack links between the village and the existing 7stanes trail network in Newcastleton Forest.
Having the trailhead in the village makes a lot of sense and has worked very successfully at other trails such as Golspie.
06/04/10 Upgrade to Buzzards Nest car park at Glentress
We are currently working to improve the Buzzards Nest car park. This involves landscaping works, taking advantage of some material moved from the Glentress Peel development. We will be adding some kerb, paving and trees to help green up the site. As part of this we intend to sow grass seed in various areas. These will be fenced to allow the grass to establish.
Due to the recent bad weather (see update below) the works have temporarily been put on hold, but they'll resume when conditions improve.
We hope you appreciate these improvements. Please follow any diversions that are in place while the work takes place.
09/02/10 IMBA UK/CTC conference in Tweed Valley, September 2010
The 2010 IMBA-UK/CTC Conference will take place from Thursday 9th - Saturday 11th September in the Macdonald Hotel at Cardrona in the Tweed Valley, just a short pedal away from the 7stanes centres of Glentress and Innerleithen.
The conference is held every two years and is the forum for all things mountain biking. More details are at:http://www.imba.org.uk/
08/01/2010 Bike hire now available at Newcastleton
7stanes Newcastleton now has local bike hire at Rock UK's Whithaugh Park Centre, about 3km from the trail head. Rock UK is one of the UK's largest providers of outdoor education and adventure. For more information on Rock UK, their contact details and all the services they provide at Newcastleton, call 013873 75394, email: whithaugh@rockuk.org or see: http://www.rockuk.org/centres/whithaugh-park.
Other articles
27/04/09 Venerable North Shore at Ewok Village joins great Black Trail in the sky
The North Shore timber features at the Ewok Village section of the Glentress Black trail have, sadly, come to the end of their lifespans and have had to be removed. They will be replaced later this year or early 2010. More in due course.
09/03/09 7stanes photo competition results
Many thanks to those of you who entered the photo competition. The winning photo, runners-up and a slideshow of all the entries is on the photo competition results page.
There's still time to solve the mystery of the seven stanes on the 7stanes, or to win a 7stanes buff by riding at all the 7stanes locations - see the arts project competition page for details.
01/08/08 Tweed Valley Mountain Bikers Hospitality Scheme
The Tweed Valley Tourist Consortia have developed a brand new Mountain Bikers Hospitality Scheme after listening to mountain bikers and finding out exactly what they need from accommodation during a visit.
The scheme members are a special collection of hotels, bed and breakfasts and self catering properties which are totally geared up to providing mountain bikers with everything they need for the perfect break. As well as a lovely place to stay and a wonderful bike-friendly welcome, riders can be assured of safe, lockable storage for their prized mountain bike, a bike washing and maintenance area, a clothes drying room and plenty of quality high-carb meals to re-fuel for the next day’s adventure.
The Tweed Valley, which takes in 7stanes Glentress and Innerleithen, is the first area in Scotland to provide such a scheme, which assures riders of finding genuinely mountain bike-friendly accommodation and is focussed on providing a world class mountain biking experience in this beautiful corner of Scotland.
To find out how to book just visit www.visittweedvalley.co.uk and look out for the sign at accommodation properties throughout the Tweed Valley.
03/07/08 7stanes user survey
If you've ever visited the MTB venues in southern Scotland, the Mountain Bike Business Network would like to find out about your experiences to help their members improve their services. All information is completely confidential and the MBBN will be very grateful for your input.
Take the 7stanes user survey.
24/05/07 Weekly MTB group at Dalbeattie
As at Mabie, there's now a regular weekly mountain bike group at Dalbeattie. Organised by the Hardrock Cycle Club, the group meets on Thursdays at 6.30pm, starting from the Dalbeattie trail head. All abilities welcome. For more details, visit the Hardrock Cycle Club website.
21/05/07 Regular MTB group at Mabie, for all levels
There is a regular weekly mountain bike group running at Mabie on Thursday evenings, meeting at 7pm at The Shed. If you're new to biking there will be qualified leaders present to take you or your kids out. We would prefer if Primary School age kids rode with a parent/gaurdian. For more details call Greg Knowles of Dumfries Cycling Club on 01557 332034, or look at www.ddcc.ik.org.
Press releases
There's more information on what's happening around the 7stanes in our press releases section.
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