It started out as a simple ask. The Adaptive Riders Collective needed help to widen the access around the side of the gate on the Loch’s Drive Trail. The original path was too narrow to allow access to three-wheel adaptive cycles. It was also too steeply sloping and would have posed a significant danger if cyclists had attempted to use it. 

It was a great example of collaborative working between ourselves, Andrew Dixon of RDS Forestry, and Keith Burnett a local building contractor from Opus Scotland.

The original path was too narrow to permit access to 3 wheel adaptive cycles. It was also too steeply sloping and would have posed a significant danger if we had attempted to use it. 

The new path is just perfect and opens up a whole range of forestry trails on the Loch Drunkie side of the 3 Loch’s Drive.  It allows us to design and deliver a variety of new routes which are particularly good for our more advanced adaptive riders.

We have already received positive comments from other cyclists, who say that it enables them to use the area without having to dismount and carry their bikes around the gate. 

Bike Trossachs have also inspected the gate and decided they will now use this trail as part of their signed route when the run the Grand Ol’ Dukes and Gravelfoyle 10 cycling festivals later this year.

So a huge thank you once again to the Scottish Cycling Foundation for providing ARC with the grant which has enabled this work to go forward.

Jane Wilkinson, Adaptive Riders Collective.

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