Mountain Bike Rider

5 BEST NEW PLACES TO RIDE

YOU’RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO CHOOSE WHICH BITS YOU RIDE, AND DIP IN AND OUT

1 LAGGAN WOLFTRAX, SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS

To paraphrase Henry Ford: you can have any colour you want at Laggan, as long as it’s black. While the famed industrialist was talking about his latest model Ts more than a century ago, he could just as easily have been referencing Laggan Wolftrax and its famously rocky, techie, black-graded trails.

Things have changed though, with a new blue-graded loop finished and ready to ride as you read these pages (well, hopefully – October half term in the school holidays is the goal). There are now also plans for a completely new red-graded descent, funded by a combination of local groups, riders and help from

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