Mountain Biking in Essex Hertfordshire & London

Join us! We are a group of mountain bikers from Herts Essex & London.
Find out what we do, where we ride & why we love mountain biking.
Sign up on the forum & join us on a ride.

Organise rides & discuss anything to do with mountain biking on our forum
The forum is the best place for arranging rides & any mountain biking chatter.
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We ride all over the South East, London, Essex & Hertfordshire
Info on where we ride and what the locations have to offer.
Stuffed with biking pics, videos, maps and links to the locations sites.

The gallery is stuffed with pics & videos from mountain biking rides and trips
Our gallery has the latest videos and pics from recent rides.
There is some great riding / crashing / good times!

Gallery - Videos & Pictures

Here are some videos & pictures from our rides. For the full gallery click here.

Bull run gap at Chicksands - 2015 October - Mountain Biking

Video of the Ghost Train at Blade

2015 May - Video

Video of the Ghost Train at Blade from yesterday. Was playing with a rear facing camera.

Surface to Air - 2015 April - Mountain Biking

Colchester bike park

2015 March - Video

Trip to Colchester bike park, what a great place

EHMTB does Bedgebury

2015 March - stumpie Video - VW-surfbum Video

Getting stuck into the red trail @ Bedgebury with the EHMTB crew

Not as bad as it looks @ Hadleigh

2015 February - Video

Riding one of the rock features @ the Hadleigh Olympic course.

Surrey Hills with the Essex Boys

2015 January - Video

Surrey Hills with the Essex Boys on a damp and loamy winter ride

London street ride - 2014 December - Mountain Biking

Wee Bike Edit

2014 November - Video

I ended up in-front of the lens for a change, this is what happened . . .

nwmlarge nails a backflip

2014 September - Video

Took me forever to dig myself out and popped my shoulder out doing it, will be back to get them flat landed!

Essex Herts MTB on Tour - 2014 September - Mountain Biking

Mattvanders at Aston Hill

2014 August - Video

Mattvanders being followed down DH3 at Aston Hill.

Langdon Hills trail ride

2014 August - Video

Langdon Hills and Thorndon, with Chris, Andrew, and Mat - 28.3miles 1,381ft of climbing

A bit of PORC action

2014 June - Video

A bit of PORC action with Decco on the Free Ride line

Llandegla trail session

2014 May - Video

This is on the black at Llandegla, no warnings, no way of knowing whats on the other side.

Roots and loam at the ever brilliant Triscombe

2014 May - Video

Roots and loam at the ever brilliant Triscombe with a retro crew.

Bike Park Wales - decoxx

2014 May - Bonneyville Video - Sixtapod Video

Two of my runs at Bike Park Wales, fun place to ride!

Aston Hill Black run on board with bigbrad

2014 April - Video

The black run which im racing in a few weeks!

VW at Cyclopark

2014 January - Video

VW at Cyclopark in Kent riding the 6 kilometres of mountain bike trails on offer

MTB Trails

We mountain bike all over the South East but mainly in Essex Herts & London. There is a page with info on where we ride. It has maps, tips and links to the locations website sites.

The main areas are Epping Forest, Woburn Sands, Aston Hill Bike Park, Chicksands, Danbury and Thorndon. Most trail rides are focussed around Epping Forest and Thorndon. There is some cracking singletrack there if you havent tried it.More info over here.

The Forum

This is what the site is all about. Its the place to organise mountain bike rides and see what is going on. new faces are always welocme and its easy to sign up. There is usually more than one ride going on each week. Pop by and say hello! The forum can be found here.

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