Trail Of The Year

The unsung, unseen heroes of mtb, our TOTY award celebrates those who toil year-round to give us new trails and fresh challenges

- Sim Mainey

If there’s one thing we’d all like more of, it’s time on the bike. Riding may be what’s on our mind most of the day, but more often than not it has to fit around the general bric-a-brac of life. Time spent riding is valuable and however much you manage to get out and ride, here at mbr we want to make sure you get the most out of your time in the saddle. From buying guides and product reviews to finding new places to ride, we’re committed to improving your riding life. We’re not the only ones though.

There are selfless individuals who have sacrificed their riding time to create places for us to ride. Whether it’s scraping in a line and hauling rocks around, or the less glamorous job of attending meetings and filling in forms, we are incredibly lucky to have people who are helping to build new and exciting places for us to ride. These people, and the trails that they have worked so hard to create, deserve recognition and celebration. This is the driving force behind the mbr Trail Of The Year Award in association with SRAM.

Of course, with so many great new trails out there we needed your help in narrowing down which ones are most deserving of the award. And, as ever, we’ve split the award into two categories: Best Commercially Built Trail and Best Volunteer Built Trail and asked you to vote for the trails you thought were deserving of the title Trail Of The Year.

As well as bragging rights, both winners will receive custom mbr Trail Of The Year trail markers, while the winning volunteer trail group will also be awarded £2,000 to help fund future projects courtesy of SRAM. Alex Rafferty from SRAM sums it up: