World Ride guided mountain biking tours
Discover the world in the best way possible: on a mountain bike. Join us on a guided mountain biking tour!
World Ride’s purpose
We believe in the transformative skills that can be learned from mountain biking. Unfortunately, there are barriers to women across the world from learning the sport. World Ride is a nonprofit that works to remove those barriers and empower women globally through mountain biking. We do this by:
- Raising money to establish bike and gear libraries in Nepal, Guatemala, Peru, Botswana, and Lesotho
- Supporting training sessions to help women develop mountain biking and guiding skills
- Employing local women to lead our mountain biking tours
- Promoting visibility of women in the sport of mountain biking by supporting race goals
Through mountain biking, you are challenged to overcome fears, gain courage, and build determination. This earned confidence can translate into other areas of your life, and the lives of the women we work with.
May 3 is International Women's MTB Day
In honor of International Women’s MTB Day (May 3), we are rallying together to raise $5,000 in 24 hours to support our mission.
Your donations help us empower women globally and change people’s lives as they develop real-world skills through mountain biking. Your gift will help us create bike and gear libraries and offer training courses!
You can set up your own donation page to help us meet our goal. Just click on the ‘Fundraise’ button, tell everyone why you are fundraising to get more women on bikes, and share your personal fundraising page with all of your friends!
Organize a group ride on Saturday May 3! Let us know the details and we will share it on our social media and website.
How You Will Support World Ride by Going on an Epic Vacation
Take a trip to a world class destination
Make a difference for women in the place you get to ride
Explore the best trails each country has to offer
Our mountain biking tours
Breathtaking views, unforgettable memories, and knowing you are making a difference! Explore a beautiful new country from your bike by joining us on a guided mountain biking tour! While you’re having the trip of a lifetime, you’ll be making it possible for more women to be empowered through mountain biking. Check out all of our mountain biking tour destinations.
Nepal
Mountain biking in the Himalayas? Yes please! Choose between three tours to experience things like the Tiji Festival, lodging in mountain Teahouses, and some of the best bike trails in the world.
Peru
Take a seven day mountain biking adventure through the Andes, with a chance to visit Machu Picchu! With this trip you’ll be supporting the local economy in Peru and local women mountain bikers.
Guatemala
Ride single track trails through coffee fields and down the sides of volcanoes, and exclusive downhill mountain bike trails at El Zur! These are some of the only purpose-built mountain bike trails in Guatemala.
Botswana
Let’s go on a safari… but on a mountain bike! This seven day trip takes into the Mashatu Game Reserve, through the Savanna and stunning river valleys. You’ll have a chance to see elephants, zebra, giraffes and more.
Lesotho
Spend 10 days biking around the small, mountainous country of Lesotho via a combination of singletrack and jeep roads. You’ll also get to ride with local women, experience the first Pump for Peace pump tracks, and cap off your trip with a visit to the famous Maletsunyane Falls.
Mount Kilimanjaro
Our trip to Tanzania is the most epic way to summit Mount Kilimanjaro. An all woman team of guides and porters will lead you along the famed Kilema route up to the highest point in Africa.
Explore and Book a World Ride Trip
Your trip is the best way to support World Ride AND you get to go on a trip-of-a-lifetime in a beautiful place. Through you trip booking, you can help change a person’s life with the skills developed through mountain biking—skills like leadership, determination, and confidence.
How you can support World Ride and women across the world
Become an ambassador
Do you like a good challenge? Do you want to make connections within your local biking community? Apply to be a World Ride ambassador!
Your social media and fundraising skills will help us bring mountain biking to even more women.
Make a donation
Help World Ride meet our 2024 fundraising goal!
Your donations help us empower women globally and change people’s lives as they develop real-world skills through mountain biking. Your gift will help us create bike and gear libraries and offer training courses.
Become a World Ride partner
When you partner with World Ride, you help women across the world overcome barriers to accessing mountain bike equipment and training.
Your support means we can establish more bike libraries, offer more guide training, and increase the visibility of women in the sport.
Host a movie night
We are looking for YOU to host a World Ride movie night in your area! We will give you all the films, provide an event checklist, help with planning, ticketing site, marketing materials and anything else you need to make the event a success. Your volunteering time helps empower women!
Being part of a World Ride trip to Peru was unlike anything else I’ve ever experienced, and not only because we were riding the epic janky terrain that is the Andes! The riding was both challenging and rewarding, the views were AMAZING, and the entire group of riders that were on the trip were awesome to hang out with. The best part is that when you sign up for a World Ride trip, you’re directly contributing to their mission to train new guides and increase accessibility to mountain biking for women in underserved countries — too good!
Edmonton, AB
Peru Trip Participant
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Which World Ride trip is right for you?
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Why going on a World Ride trip is the best way to support our mission
We get so many people reaching out to us asking how they can help with our mission to empower women globally through mountain biking. We truly believe that the best way to support World Ride is to go on one of our trips!
Ready for the trip of a lifetime?
Ride up and down mountains, experience local culture, and empower women across the world! Explore our mountain biking tours and pick the one that’s right for you.