'I basically ripped off parkrun' - meet ParkRide, the new entry-level cycling event

Former Scottish MTB champion Kerry MacPhee has set up the event in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park

Riders set off at ParkRide
(Image credit: ParkRide/Kerry MacPhee)

The spirit of parkrun is coming to the world of cycling through ParkRide, a new initiative that began in June in Scotland.

The event was created by Kerry MacPhee, a former professional mountain bike rider, and it uses some of the trails around Aberfoyle, or Gravelfoyle as it has become known.

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Adam Becket
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Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling, he's happy. Before joining CW he spent two years writing for Procycling. He's usually out and about on the roads of Bristol and its surrounds.

Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to cycling.