How Mountain Biking is Being Developed in Scotland
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
A National strategy for developing mountain biking in Scotland has been in place since 2010 and an updated comprehensive plan for the next 6 years is set to be released any day. We talk with Graeme McLean, project manager from Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland (DMBinS), about how well the plan has worked so far, and what DMBinS has in store for the future. Any group looking to develop mountain biking — whether it’s at the local or national level, for tourism, industry, or athlete development — can learn from what DMBinS has accomplished so far.
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| 0:20.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today Graham McLean is going to be |
| 0:26.6 | joining me to talk about mountain biking in Scotland. So Graham is a project manager for developing |
| 0:33.5 | mountain biking in Scotland and it's a pretty unique group that's doing some really cool |
| 0:38.8 | things in Scotland, but obviously a lot of these things can be done other places as well. |
| 0:43.7 | Thanks for joining us, Graham. No problem, Jeff. No, glad to be here. So it should be pretty obvious |
| 0:48.8 | from the name of your group what it does exactly, but what does developing mountain biking in Scotland? What's it all |
| 0:55.7 | about? We have a national strategy for mountain biking across Scotland, which has been developed up |
| 1:00.7 | in 2007, 2009 was the first national strategy. And it was developed up involving all the national |
| 1:08.1 | organisations involved in mountain biking, all the cycling organisations and through a |
| 1:12.4 | consultation with mountain bikers. We were put in post, it wasn't actually called developing |
| 1:16.5 | mountain biking in Scotland at the time, but we were myself and a half an administrator, we're putting |
| 1:21.8 | in post to oversee the delivery of that national strategy kind of nine and a half years ago now. |
| 1:28.2 | So we've actually been through quite a journey |
| 1:31.9 | in that time there. |
| 1:33.1 | There was quite a lot of bad relationships |
| 1:35.1 | at the time, I think, when we took over in the role. |
| 1:38.9 | There was really quite a disconnect |
| 1:40.8 | between our national agencies and mountain bikers, |
| 1:44.6 | and not a lot of effective partnership working at national, regional or local level. |
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