Bradford

Clubs

British Cycling can help you to find a club that’s right for you. Use the club finder link to find a club near you. There are some great cycling clubs in Bradford who'll be happy for you to come along and ride with them, including:

East Bradford Cycle Club
The club offers Saturday morning Go-Ride cycling club for children.  

Keighley Just Ride
A Go-Ride club based at Worth Valley Primary School, which meets on Saturday mornings.
Contact: KJRCC@hotmail.com 

Bradford BMX Bandits
A Go-Ride club specialising in BMX. The club caters for all abilities and has its own BMX track which has been fully redeveloped. New members are welcome and bikes can be provided.
Contact: ian.thewliss@bradfordbmxbandits.org.uk

Bronte Wheelers Cycling Club   

Bradford Disability Sport and Leisure Aiming High cycling club
The club has adapted bicycles and trainers based at Lister Park in Bradford. The club offers a wide range of bikes and trikes for all ages and abilities.

Facilities

Bradford has a range of dedicated cycling facilities.

There's a closed road circuit at the Richard Dunn Sports Centre. Children and young people can access the circuit through East Bradford Cycle Club’s Saturday morning sessions.

Bradford has a fantastic purpose-built BMX track at Peel Park, with open access to the public. For more information see the BMX Bandits club website.

Bradford District offers superb mountain biking on a varied network of public bridleways. Buck Wood Thackley offers open access mountain bike dirt jumps and a pump track. Stainburn mountain bike trails are open access technical trails for experienced mountain bikers.

Support

There's a range of great initiatives in Bradford aimed at helping as many people as possible get the most out of cycling.

CycleBradford aims to connect people to cycling activity in and around the Bradford District. CycleBradford is also home to Bradford’s cyclists’ forum bSPOKE, where issues which directly affect cyclists are discussed and actions taken to improve the district as a place to cycle. 

Aire Valley Bike Bus is a way of supporting people who want to be cycle commuters. The Bike Bus runs every Wednesday from Keighley to Bradford city centre along the A650.

BMDC Adventure Development Unit offers the chance to get into mountain biking. Bike hire and friendly coaching is available.

Hammsters are a group of cyclists who ride from Bradford to Hamm (Bradford’s twin city in Germany) every other year to raise money for the Bradford Disability Sport and Leisure charity. Anyone is welcome to ride with the Hammsters when they meet on the first Sunday of the month. 

Training

There’s a huge amount of cycle training on offer in and around Bradford.

Safe 2 Cycle offers cycle training opportunities in and around Bradford. 

Becycling offers a range of cycle training opportunities in the Bradford District and beyond. 

Mountain Bike Cycle Yorkshire offers guided rides and coaching in the area. 

Crank it up – Cycling for all offer wacky bike demos to bicycle recycling schemes and maintenance courses.

Wheels for All – a new club based at Titus Salt School for cyclists with disabilities. 

Bikeability

Bradford Council has trained a number of National Standards tutors who now deliver Bikeability in Schools in the Bradford District. This scheme is free of charge to the schools and trains its pupils through Level 1 and Level 2. Level 1 is very similar to the old cycling proficiency and level 2 includes vital-on road training, showing children from years 5 to 7 how to safely use the roads.

For information about Bikeability email paul.hart@bradford.gov.uk.

Where to ride

Bradford has something to offer every kind of cyclist – from city routes to country trails. Find out more about tracks and trails by following these links:

Bradford City Cycle Map

Airedale Greenway – Leeds Liverpool Canal towpath 

The Great Northern Trail – a traffic-free cycle route from Cullingworth.   

Spen Valley Greenway – a disused railway, now a traffic-free route.

Pennine Bridleway is a great traffic-free route for off-road cycling, and Bradford enjoys links to this extensive route.

Aire Calder Link is a new 17 mile route which is the first of three key links planned to improve access to the Pennine Bridleway. It runs from St Ives Estate near Bingley to join the Mary Towneley Loop near Widdop reservoir in Calderdale.

Riding around Bradford

There's some great on- and off-road riding in Yorkshire from the scenic country lanes and rugged off-road trails in the Yorkshire Dales to the world class trail centre in Dalby Forest. Add to this a well developed network of leisure routes and it's clear that Yorkshire offers a great escape for everyone. Find out more.

MTB the Dales – information for mountain biking in the Yorkshire Dales.