But first, a special announcement (skip over if you just want to find out about the Kent TRF):
~ The Canterbury Trails ~
We are excited to announce that we, the Kent TRF group, are holding our first ever trail riding event open to all TRF members! It will consist of a weekend of guided trail riding around beautiful Kent, based at a good camp site in the countryside with some good food and drink provided. All types of rider will be catered for, from beginner to the more experienced, for trail bikes and adventure bikes, lads and ladies. Sounds good, yes?!
The event will run on the weekend of June 7/8/9th, but there will be limited numbers, so be quick if you fancy this. The cost will be £130 per rider and more details can be found here.
Back to the our normal Home page….
Helping You Trail Ride in Kent.
TRF stands for the Trail Riders Fellowship, a national motorcycle club that has been going for over 50 years, helping trail riding motorcyclists make the most of the green lane network that we have in England and Wales.
We are the Kent group of the national TRF, the officially recognised focal place for the trail riders of Kent. We run occasional (some say monthly) runs all around the county, typically 4 to 6 hours long, travelling between 30 and 80 miles. Some areas are blessed with plenty of green lanes, some not so many. Most lanes are open to us, some have been closed for various reasons (even if those reasons may be unfathomable to normal folk), some are open seasonally, some are easy, some less easy. The Kent TRF can tailor rides and routes to suit all riders (although this is seasonally dependent, of course).
If you’re new to trail riding then please do come along to a club meeting. You can chat with the members, join a local ride (or encourage a local rider to show you the local lanes if you feel a bit nervous about joining a group first time out – we do appreciate that not everyone takes to trail riding like a duck to water), then decide if joining and riding with the TRF is for you. If you do, and we hope you do, then you have to join the national TRF (see below) and then select a local group that you’d like to belong to and attend (hopefully the Kent one), but you do get access to all the other groups should you wish to ride further afield.
We have two meeting places in Kent to accommodate riders from all over Kent. There’s the main Kent group that meets (once again, for those that remember) in the The Pied Bull, Farningham, DA4 0DG, on the last Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm, and the East Kent sub-group that meets in the Black Robin, Kingston (south of Bridge), CT4 6HS on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, starting at 7:00pm, but don’t worry if you’re a little late! You’re welcome to drop in to either of these meetings to meet and ask questions without invitation.
Of course, we mostly trail ride, but we do also help out on our bikes at a few horse events (good fun), plus we work on defending the network of green lanes from those who would keep us off them. That work involves collecting user evidence, making a case to prevent closure and perhaps even attending court should it get to that. In general we have a good record of success at defending our right to ride the green lanes in Kent and, with your help, we can continue to do that… but mostly it’s about the riding!
When necessary we also do some lane clearing. Here we are sorting out a neglected lane in the south of Kent in March 2024.
Helping mark out a horse event.
Joining
To join the TRF go to this page, peruse it and then click the “Join” button.
Once you’ve joined the TRF please do also join the Kent TRF Forum here . This is where we discuss rides, lane issues, the next ride, bike modifications and all stuff trail riding related.
A few photos of some of our days out riding:
Sometimes we go further afield to enjoy different scenery. Wales is popular.
This site and the images it contains are copyright of the Kent TRF.