Trans Caledonia - Clan Weeks

Get in touch with our team directly if you're travelling with someone who won't be riding, as accommodation and logistics across a multi-region tour like this need a bit more planning than a single-base holiday. We'd rather talk it through properly than have you assume something's included that isn't, given how much moves around during the week.

Yes, we ask every rider to complete an honest ability evaluation by email before confirming a place, because the terrain across Deeside, the Highlands and the Tweed Valley genuinely varies and we want every group to be well matched. It's not about gatekeeping, it's about making sure you have the best week possible and aren't left struggling or holding up a group riding above your level.

The race is a proper competitive enduro, with stages, timing and a start list, and it's a serious undertaking even for strong riders. A Clan Week lets you experience the same spirit of a big multi-region Scottish adventure, riding brilliant trails across the Highlands, Perthshire and the Borders, without needing to race anyone or worry about stage times. It's for riders who want the adventure and the trails, not the competition.

Our destination-based trips are built around a single base and region, whereas a Clan Week is a genuine point-to-point tour across four distinct parts of Scotland in one week, with your accommodation and riding changing location most days. If you want to properly experience how varied Scottish mountain biking is, from Aberdeenshire through to the Borders, a Clan Week covers far more ground than a single-destination holiday ever could.

Groups run between 7 and 14 riders, which keeps things sociable and proper "clan" territory without ever feeling like an anonymous big-group tour. Our guides know every region on the route intimately, from the Deeside natural trails to the Tweed Valley's built network, so you're getting genuinely local knowledge in each area rather than one guide trying to know all of Scotland equally well.

Prices start from £2,290 per person for the week. If you're travelling solo and want your own room rather than sharing, there's a single supplement of £500 to £700 depending on the specific accommodation and availability across the route.

Yes, we run a strict pack-it-out policy across the whole week, whether you're riding remote natural trails in Glenlivet or built singletrack at Wolftrax and Innerleithen. A huge part of what makes this route special is the quality and condition of the trails themselves, so our guides brief every group on etiquette and looking after the ground we're lucky enough to ride.

Absolutely, and honestly it's one of the best introductions to Scottish mountain biking going, since you get everything from raw Highland singletrack to Speyside whisky country to the world-class built trails of the Tweed Valley in a single week. Just make sure your riding level matches the red and black grading, since the variety of terrain is part of the appeal but it does mean consistently technical riding throughout.

Yes, proper travel and mountain bike insurance is mandatory for every rider, given the remote sections of Highland and Deeside terrain we cover across the week. We work with Yellow Jersey Cycle Insurance, who offer a 10% discount to our guests if you need to sort cover before booking.

We grade this trip for high intermediate to advanced riders who are genuinely comfortable on red and black graded trails, with both fitness and technical skill rated 3 out of 5. You'll be climbing and descending across six consecutive days of varied Scottish terrain, so this isn't the right first mountain bike holiday if you're newer to the sport.

We take a 30% deposit to secure your place, which is non-refundable, with the balance due 8 weeks before departure. Your payments are held in a dedicated Travel Trust account for added protection, which matters on a trip like this involving accommodation and logistics across multiple regions of Scotland.

The final two days take in some legendary Tweed Valley riding around Innerleithen, including trails like Deliverance, Heartbreak Ridge, Orca, Tomb Stone and Honey Monster, plus a lap of New York New York up at the Golfie. The Golfie is genuinely one of the birthplaces of UK downhill and enduro riding, so finishing your week there is a proper send-off.

You'll spend day zero settling in with a warm-up ride in Aberdeenshire, before two proper days of riding through Royal Deeside and Glenlivet, home to some of Scotland's finest natural trails and famous whisky country. Day three takes you west into the Highlands around Laggan, including the excellent Wolftrax trail centre, before day four moves you into Perthshire and the trails around Dunkeld. The final two days finish the week in the Scottish Borders' Tweed Valley, riding some of the country's most celebrated mountain bike terrain before you're dropped back in Edinburgh.

Clan Weeks are our seven-night, six-day guided mountain bike tour across Scotland, built as the non-race alternative to the Trans Caledonia enduro. Where the race is a timed, competitive event shuttling riders between iconic Scottish locations, a Clan Week takes you across much of the same incredible ground at a guided, sociable pace, with no clock running and no results board at the end of the day.

A proper enduro bike with 140mm to 170mm of travel is what most of our Clan Week guests ride, giving you enough capability for the natural Highland descents and the built trails at Wolftrax and Innerleithen while still climbing reasonably well across six long days. If you're unsure what you've got is suitable, send us the spec before you book and we'll tell you straight.

Clan Weeks run through the main Scottish riding season when the Highland trails, Deeside terrain and Tweed Valley network are all at their best, giving you reliable ground conditions across every region on the route. Get in touch with our team for specific 2026 dates, particularly if you're hoping to tie a week in around the Trans Caledonia race itself.

Your Clan Week covers six days of guided riding, seven nights' accommodation, a welcome meal and a celebration meal to bookend the week, all lunches and trailside snacks, full mechanical support plus bike washing facilities each evening, collection and drop-off in Edinburgh, and passenger protection insurance. We also build in post-ride socials along the way, including a whisky tasting, because a week riding through Speyside and Deeside without trying the local single malt would be a missed opportunity.

Wolftrax, near Laggan in the Highlands, is a proper trail centre with built red and black graded trails through native pine forest, so it's a different flavour of riding to the natural, big-mountain terrain earlier in the week. It's a great change of pace mid-tour, giving you flowing, well-built singletrack and jumps rather than the raw, exposed riding of Deeside and Glenlivet.

You're in a mix of traditional Scottish guest houses and small hotels rather than big chain accommodation, chosen for character and location close to each day's riding as much as comfort. It's part of what makes a Clan Week feel like touring the country rather than just riding the same trail centre for a week.

Every Clan Week starts and finishes in Edinburgh, so you can fly, train or drive into the city, and we take care of getting you and your bike around Scotland from there. It also means you don't need to worry about one-way travel logistics or getting a hire car back to a different airport at the end of the week.

Yes, mechanical support and bike washing are built into every day of the tour, so if something goes wrong on the trail our guides can help sort it, and you'll have somewhere proper to clean your bike down each evening rather than leaving it caked in Highland mud overnight. It genuinely makes a difference riding six consecutive days back to back.