Excellent company who provide great riding in the mountains,very helpful and well organised.My wife came with me and they dropped her off at places she wanted to visit(within reason)Very friendly and great guiding
Hi Alan, just a big thank you to you and all your staff for a great week, a special thank you to John for his knowledge, patience, and humour that made it a memorable time for us all, we’ll see you again next year, same time, hopefully same weather.
Take care
Charlie
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30/04/2019
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Nick
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Just back from a great long first weekend with Sierra MTB. Not totally sure what to expect but it was perfect for our purposes, for an occasional big birthday away trip for a bunch of ageing, balding, greying, middle aged but not quite over the hill yet bikers. So a big thanks to Alan & Mary for transport,food, beer and restaurant recommendations and John & Emily for taking us out on the trails and looking after us- they pitched it just right with the ocassional hazard warning as required. Also to Sean for helping unlucky Gary back! and last but not least, Alexis. On a practical point the accommodation is clean and tidy and really close to the beach. The bike fleet is well maintained with a mix of giant trance, commencal and transition bikes, well specced and including dropper posts, which you will use. As for the riding the day starts with a great leisurely breakfast of your choosing (thanks again to Mary), with plenty of snacks and spare fuel available for the day. Then it's load the vans followed by a morning ride, spot of lunch and another route back to base in the late afternoon. Be prepared, there is fire road / on road uphill but for those looking for a mix of uplift, shorter high speed runs, longer flowing forest single track, or lumps, jumps, rocks etc Sierra MTB can find it for you. Once back it's beers (seemingly endless supply) in the garden house or by the pool, on to a recommended restaurant (or just explore the back streets), back to base and then repeat. I'd say we'd all be more than happy to return and a big thanks again form all of us.
Thanks for a fantastic weekend we thoroughly enjoyed it, the guides are an absolute credit to the company and do so much towards making your trip as fantastic as it can be! Clive, Emily, John and Sean all get 10/10 from our visit... we will be back again once Alex’s broken shoulder heals up! Already looking forward to our next trip... Stuart Makin Stephen Hunter Chris Nolan Alex Eddington
This was my fitht visit at Alan´s place and after four years brake. Everything was briliant like at the previous years. Various tracks to ride, frienly personnel and well guided for the slowly and faster bikers. An extra bonus was a weather and very nice visitors group on my week. My strongly recommend.
Brilliant... long weekend of fantastic riding, relaxed atmosphere, cooked breakfast, real patient and professional guides ...
Thanks to all the team for good holiday.
Andy
My wife and I came over to stay with Sierra MTB. She doesn’t mountain bike but was happy to relax on the beach, and we got a 40% discount on her booking as she wasn’t biking. We were both made to feel so welcome, which was especially nice to see as she wasn’t riding.
They gave her tips on where to go in the day and gave us both plenty of good recommendations for local restaurants for our evening meals.
We got breakfast, which was excellent and included fruit, fresh bread (the local bread is amazing) yogurt, cooked breakfast (eggs, beans, sausages) coffee, tea juice etc as part of the package.
But also free soft drinks and beers. The fridge was always fully stocked with free drinks which was a great touch at the end of a ride.
I didn’t want to travel with a bike so I used their hire bike and it was excellent.
The trails were great as was the guiding and coaching. Ash and Jon were both really encouraging and great company.
On a couple of days there was a mix of riders but the guides did a great job of finding trails to suit everyone and helping guest through anything they struggled with.
We also had some really productive coaching sessions and I’m grateful to both Ash and Jon for this. I’d definitely class myself as a novice, but my confidence as well as my ability with things like switchbacks really came on.
I’m really grateful to Alan and his team for being great hosts and Jon and Ash for their time and patience on the trails.
I will definitely be back in the future.
Excellent company who provide great riding in the mountains,very helpful and well organised.My wife came with me and they dropped her off at places she wanted to visit(within reason)Very friendly and great guiding