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Scotland Outdoors

Mark and Euan get the lowdown on whooper swans, a restored suspension bridge and electric mountain bikes

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Whooper swans, suspension bridges and electric mountains bikes

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:27.4

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0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello and thank you for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

0:38.8

I'm Mark Stephen. He's you and Michael Rath.

0:41.1

And we're standing here in what could reasonably describe

0:43.3

as a fairly blustery BBC Aberdeen car park.

0:46.0

Yeah, we'd expect winds up to 100 miles an hour in Scotland this weekend.

0:49.5

It's nothing like that at the moment,

0:51.0

but the trees are really bent over.

0:53.0

It's pretty wild.

0:55.0

If you're a keen mountain biker in Scotland, you'll know that Glen Trace Forest near Peebles

0:59.0

is home to the mountain bike centre of Scotland.

1:01.0

Now, I was in the area recently and I thought I would pop in.

1:04.0

It turned out to be a pretty opportune time to visit, as the developing mountain biking in Scotland

1:09.0

group had just had the biennial conference.

1:11.7

I asked Graham McLean, whose project leader of the group, what came out of it?

1:16.2

We do know this, we've had a tremendous success story of mountain biking in Scotland for

1:19.4

none of different reasons, the amount of trails we have, the access we have, the amount of

1:23.4

businesses that we have involved in it now as well, the participation programmes, all a great success.

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