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29/01/2025

Made with the lovely British weather in mind!

All our components are designed, tested and and made here in the UK.
Good job really, our tiny little island gets its fair share of challenging conditions you need parts you can rely on and that are fully serviceable!

PC: Sadie Aldridge Photography

22/01/2025

Someone's happy with their new parts!

Ambassador has Hope'd up her Juliana Wilder and we love it!

This is what Katie has to say about the build;
She's a bike for getting wild. For big remote days and bikepacking adventures, to endurance events and races, to recovery rides and local XC laps. Dammit, I don't have an excuse not to enter an XC race now do I? Her Hope build matches her versatility and capability as a bike. The X2 brakes give me the confidence to still get wild on the trails.

We look forward to seeing you at an xc race soon Katie! 😉

You can see more photos of the build here: https://www.hopewomen.com/blog/katiemayjuliana

16/01/2025

Winter time can a bit of drag with the short days and the lack of sunshine. Cheri Mills (Cheri Mills Coaching) talks about the benefits of a winter cycling holiday/training camp in our latest blog post on the website.

Have you been on a winter cycling holiday recently? Where's your go to place?

https://www.hopewomen.com/blog/cyclingholidays

14/01/2025

Our ladies in green were out in force at the weekend at the CX National Champs at Cyclopark, Gravesend.

Conditions were tricky for racers with Icey mud on a techy course!

Well done Ruby who finished 22nd Elite Women, Becky 12th Elite Women, Isla 3rd U14's, Jess 8th U16's and Maddie 5th Junior Women. Hats off ladies!

Ex team green member Cat Ferguson came 2nd in Elite women and won the U23 race!

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08/01/2025

First bike check of the year! Hannah Davies () recently kitted up her Santa Cruz Vala E-Bike with some stealthy black Hope components.

Head to our blog to see more close ups and why Hannah built this one up!

https://www.hopewomen.com/blog/hannahebike

01/01/2025

2025 is here!!

🥳Happy New Year🥳

Wishing you all an amazing 2025 and looking forwards to getting out on a ride out with you or seeing you at one of the events we're supporting this year!

PC: Caitlin Wilkinson

23/12/2024

Dreaming of a white Christmas!

That's all from us this year folks. Thanks to all who have supported events and been on one of our ride outs this year! We look forwards to seeing you next year and what 2025 holds! Many thanks to all our rad, talented supported riders who continue to inspire and drive women's mountain biking forwards. We salute you!

We have some exciting things happening next year that we can't wait to tell you and for you to be involved with! Keep an eye out on the socials for news on that.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Hope WMN!

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12/12/2024

It doesn't always go to plan!

Let Vic tell you what went on when she went to race the Gravel World Champs this October in Belgium in our latest blog post......

https://www.hopewomen.com/blog/gravelworlds

11/12/2024

🚨 New supported rider 🚨

Please welcome Kath Goodey to the Hope/Hope WMN fam!

With North Wales as her back garden, riding bikes in the early 1990's was always something that was done when it was too wet to climb. But after a pretty serious climbing accident mountain biking was thrown to the top of the activity pecking order.

With the joys of modern mountain bikes, trails, Enduro racing and brakes that work, Kath has now made bikes her livelihood. Having been a teacher both in the classroom and out for 28 years she took the plunge into self employment and set up her own guiding and coaching company back in 2021.

When Kath isn't guiding, coaching or riding for herself she is heavily involved with her local trail association, working tirelessly with Trail Collective North Wales to promote, improve and maintain the natural trails.

Welcome onboard Kath!

04/12/2024

I have a confession to make: I’m terrible at looking after my bike.

Dip into our latest blog post from ambassador Rosie

https://www.hopewomen.com/blog/terrible-confession

Photos: Pete Scullion

28/11/2024

🔥 Summer round up🔥

Next up we have Vic Peel....

Summer 2024 has been a summer of change for me – some huge circumstantial changes: moving back home to farm life again after 4 years away; my wonderful little pup, Greg, coming into my life; leaving my old job after 11 years at Johnson Matthey and starting afresh at Rolls-Royce, and buying a new house again. Thankfully, during the last 6 months, bikes and some wonderful groups of friends have been a fantastic bit of consistency in my life. Training has kept me on the straight and narrow with some structure and routine, and despite my race calendar looking fairly bare results have been pretty acceptable – which goes to show: happy head, fast legs (fast-ish in my case) 😊
Oh, and I went to Belgium for the world gravel champs, representing GB – blog to follow!

21/11/2024

🔥 Summer round Up 🔥

Next up with Julia Hobson...

Summer is always a crazy busy time of year for me. Back to back weeks and months of guided trips in the Alps mean I often feel like those memes you see of a swan swimming gracefully on the surface while no-one sees the frantic paddling underwater just to stay afloat 😂 This year with lots going on personally behind the scenes felt like that more than ever.
But thankfully all my Endless Trails MTB trips went well with lots of happy guests, great days shared in the mountains, and memories made, making all the work involved in organising these trips feel 100% worth the effort!
The weather made things 'challenging' at times, but it's part of the game when you work as a guide, and i still have to pinch myself every day that I've created a life for myself which evolves around riding my bike in beautiful places!

19/11/2024

🔥 Summer Round Up🔥

Next up we have Becky Preece......

My summer of riding bikes and having lots of fun!
Just before summer really kicked off Nicole and I decided it might be quite fun to take part in a Duathlon (run, bike, run). I still had some form from cross season so I just needed to improve my running fitness! 5 weeks ish of doing a lot more running, it was time to go and race. Obviously I went in with zero expectations having never done one before but to my surprise I actually crossed the line in first, totally unaware of this at the time until a videographer came over and chatted to me and informed me that I had won 🤣 if you haven’t already, I would absolutely 1000% recommend entering one, they are so much fun!

Summer didn’t really arrive in England early so a holiday to sunny Mallorca was booked swiftly! 5 days of riding bikes with friends. We stayed in the most amazing villa which I named Casamor 🤣 the week started off with torrential rain, which obviously I was not expecting being in “sunny” Mallorca but we made the most of it and rode every day, clocking up lots of miles and drinking a little bit of beer 😉 I finally got mrs read drunk too!! We got to the second to last day and checked the weather forecast and noticed that the sun was typically coming out the day we were leaving, so we all made a very wise decision to extend the holiday for another 2 days! So finally we got 3 days of glorious sunshine which we’d been waiting for the whole holiday!

My plan this summer was to clock as many miles as I could and Mallorca definitely kick started that.
I arrived back in England to the usual, gloomy grey sky, so there was only one thing to do. Book another holiday 🤣 my next adventure took me to Girona to visit my best friend, Zoe. There was less bike riding but still lots of activities! We hiked many miles, swam in the most beautiful sea, went on a mtb adventure to swim in a river and again, drank a little bit of beer 🫣 but the sun was shining everyday and I got the vitamin D fix I needed!

Sadly I had to face reality and return to work but most of my weekends were consumed with lots of bike riding and a very wet and rainy weekend in Scotland, riding mountain bikes around Golfie, one of THE best places to ride, rain or shine, this place is amazing.
After riding Golfie I thought I’d enter an enduro. It was one of the tweedlove series in Glentress, it was another soaking wet weekend but mountain biking is always better in the rain 😉 and all the hope gang were there so I had such a fun weekend riding and hanging out with the gang!
Summer always ends far too fast, especially when we don’t really get a proper summer but I definitely made the most of it, no rain stops play when you’re a northern girl 😉
Now it’s time to knuckle down and get race fit ready for the cyclocross season for lots more rain and mud ☔️💩

14/11/2024

🔥 Summer Round UP🔥

Next up is Roos Op de Beeck

My season went a bit with some mixed feelings. This winter and during the season I had not so much time to train and ride. That’s because we are renovating our house. The amount of races were the same as last years. But the amount of riding way less, sadly! So we had the split our time 🤷‍♀️

But overall I’m super happy how my season went actually. The first downhill races I qualified first, which I was super surprised about. But in my final run I didn’t managed to get that first place. That was a bit frustrating for me actually. That happened twice.. I came once 2nd and one time 3rd..

The last few downhill races didn’t went very well. I was feeling really good on the bike during training but somehow I didn’t make it during the final run. But overall I managed to be 2nd overall winner of IXS Downhill cup series. Which I’m super happy about. There were some close battles, so there will be definitely a revenge next year! 😛

Also did my very first Megavalanche this year! That was something else, but so happy that I did it! It was the hardest race I ever did! Too bad we didn’t start at the very top of the glacier. So I have to go back to feel the full experience!

24 Race results:
- Jura Sick Race: 6th (mini mass start in France)
- Belgian Enduro cup Chaudfontaine: 2nd
- IXS Downhill cup Winterberg: 2nd
- IXS Downhill cup Willingen: 2nd
- Enduro de la semoy: 4th
- IXS Downhill cup Steinach: 3rd
- Megavalanche Alpe d’Huez: 3rd elite, 12th overall
- European Champs Champery: DNS
- IXS Downhill cup Ilmenau: 10th
- IXS Downhill cup Bellwald: 9th
- IXS Downhill cup Overall: 2nd

Sadly I had not so much bike time between the races. We went before the Euro Champs in Champery to les Portes du soleil in France for some riding. But except from that we had no time for other roadtrips. Next year I hope to do it better! 😉

12/11/2024

🔥 Summer Round Up 🔥

Next up is Laura Martin.....

Last year was really busy for me with mountain biking and trips wise and I wanted to take a slower pace with this summer as there was a big change happening for me and I knew I wanted to spend more them at home. I have always lived in the Scottish Highlands and this was my last summer here. I wanted to do as much at-home biking as I could before moving on. This summer was wet even by the Highlands summer standards. But It was nice to spend more time locally. Including attending a few events like the last Fort William Downhill World Cup.

A trip to Andorra mid-summer broke up the miserable weather. Vallnord has some of the world's best downhill biking and I love going there! The trip was amazing, with miles of downhill laps and a few off-piste ones too and did I mention the food. I was in heaven. Biking paradise.

Moving and then an injury took up most of my time. I have now moved south and I do not recommend doing as many house viewings as we did or packing an house when it is a 12-hour round trip but it has all come good in the end and there are some excellent biking trails right beside me. I already have big plans for next year. But this year's summer was all about basking in my last Scottish Highland summer. I am so lucky to have been able to do this and thankful for the opportunity. Sometimes you have to slow your pace down to get things back on track and I am happy I did.

11/11/2024

🔥 Summer Round Up 🔥

Next up is Ruby James....

This summer was all about taking it back to basics and finding my balance again.
Spending time on my bike with friends, van life adventures and enjoying the sunshine in between the chaos of work life and finishing up my MSc Dissertation.

08/11/2024

🔥Summer Round Up🔥

Next up we have Ella....

With two big goals of the Olympics and World Championships taking place in July and August, my summer mainly consisted of training and racing. I spent 2.5 weeks on a training camp in Morzine for the Olympics spending plenty of time on the bike but also quality time off the bike with friends. Following this I raced the national championships at Dalby Forrest before travelling out to the Paris Olympics.

Having the opportunity to go to the Olympic Games at 19 was insane and the whole experience from receiving my Team GB kit to racing at the event itself was so special. Without any time to unpack my bags from Paris I travelled out to Andorra for a 3 week training camp before the World Championships at the end of August. This was one of my most enjoyable few weeks of training I’ve ever done and was so fun exploring new roads and trails. Then I achieved my season goal of a medal at the World Championships which was the dream end to my summer! Being able to spend my summer with good people in amazing places made it one of the best yet.

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Limitlass 24! Year 3 and it just keeps getting better and better! Thank you for letting us be a small part of it! 🌟Coaching with the best female coaches. 🌟Workshops with experienced, knowledgeable folk. 🌟Fab expo village. 🌟Guided rides with the best female guides. 🌟Inspiring film night. 🌟Panel talk. 🌟Immense warm ups, Yoga and wild swims Huge well done @katieemay31 @annariddz and @fee.mtb for your efforts, dedication and passion you put into the event. It really does show! Providing a space for women to progress and have fun on bikes! Amen to that! 🙏 Also a big thank you to the volunteers too 🤘👊 We cannot wait for next year! #hopewmn #morewomenonbikes #hopetech #ridebikeshavefun #limitlass #dunkeld #scotland

⚙️Tech Tuesday📐 We’ll be heading to @limitlass this weekend in Dunkeld, Scotland. For the rider goody bikes this year we’ve designed and made a coaster! Complete with the Hope Women and Limitlass logo. Produced by the laser cutter that makes our brake rotors, using 410 stainless steel. What better way to remember your rad time on bikes every time you have a brew at work or at home! #hopewmn #hopetech #limitlass #ridebikeshavefun #dunkeld #scotland #morewomenonbikes

Just some @marthagmarthag clips from @crankworx Innsbruck to get us hyped for the weekend 🙌🏼💃🏼 Do you have any riding plans for the weekend? See you out there 🚲👊🏼 #weekendloading #letsgoridebikes #hopewmn #hopetech #crankworx #innsbruck #morebikes

Awesome weekend in the sun supporting the @dirt_divas_mtbgravel Festival 🤩 Hearing everyone talk about their progression as the weekend went on was incredible, well done ladies 👏🏻 We had a great time in the event village with @deviatecycles, @comriecroftbikes, @trailbloom, @_shredlikeagirl 🙌🏻 Thank you to everyone who came by, demo'ed products and purchased some merch from us all🫶🏻 #hopetech #hopewmn #dirtdivas #celebratingwomen #scotland #aberfoyle #mtb #ridebikeshavefun #morewomenonbikes

Fresh off the back of a very successful Crankworx Rotorua, with a win in both the Duel Slalom & Air DH and a 3rd in Speed & Style, we got @marthagmarthag to answer us a few burning questions! Check out the link in bio to see what she had to say! #hopewmn #hopetech #ridebikeshavefun #morewomenonbikes #crankworx #dh #duelslalom #pumptrack #airdh #speed&style #queen👑

Crankworx Rotorua starts very soooooon!! And we’ve got not just one shredder competing but 2!! You can catch both @marthagmarthag and @mmurmaider competing in a few events over the next week! Go get it gals! 💃😎🔥 You can catch Martha & Emma in the Air DH and Speed & Style. Martha will also be competing in Duel Slalom and Pump Track Challenge. Emma will also compete in the Whip off Champs too! #hopewmn #hopetech #ridebikeshavefun #crankworx #crankworxrotorua #morewomenonbikes

Check out our Jess Stone MTB in the Shires! A British bicycle film dropping today on Red Bull TV!

Wow wow wee wow! What a year! Big love to all who have made it a magical year on bikes. Looking forwards to more bike fun in 2024 with you all. PC: Sadie Aldridge Photography JWDT.photography Adam Wright

Two months on and the memories and good times are still strong! The Hope WMN Enduro encapsulated everything we love about riding bikes! Bringing like minded folk together to ride bikes, have fun! With a bit of friendly competition thrown in! Hop back into the edit @pencilmountainstudio made for us to see what went on! The PMBA Enduro Series Hope WMN series next year will be a 2 round series, visiting Scotland on both occasions. Kirroughtree in April and Ae Forest in August. Entries are live! Watch this space for news on the Hope WMN stand alone event 2024💥