Hannah Collingridge has been riding bikes, racing bikes, fixing bikes and talking about bikes for over forty years. As a freelance writer, her work has appeared in Cranked, Cycle and Singletrack magazines, and she is the author of Pennine Bridleway, the definitive guide to the long-distance, off-road national trail from Derbyshire to Cumbria. As well as living just down the road from Leeds Urban Bike Park, she’s ridden bikes all over the UK, and can often be found organising, commentating on or racing at bike events. When she’s not riding or racing bikes, Hannah is usually mending them, having spent nearly a decade as a professional bike mechanic. She’s at her best when she’s somewhere new pointing excitedly at something she’s read about. Mostly fuelled by cheese and coffee. @all_the_trailz

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