Our BASE performance coach, Mark Scott will already be familiar to many as one of the most well travelled Enduro World Series ex-pro racers out there, riding for Santa Cruz Bicycles since the very start of the discipline, and holding the record for the longest string of events attended for quite some time. There’s more to Mark's riding than just enduro racing however. A passionate all round cyclist he’s also expanded into other disciplines taking on everything from fast paced gravel races to huge endurance challenges, while his instagram lines and gaps on the Tweed Valleys trails are the stuff of local legend.

In more recent years, Mark added coaching to his resume where he now helps hone future generations of racers and riders and passing down the wealth of knowledge he’s amassed.

Credentials

• Professional rider for Santa Cruz Bicycles
• Previous regular Top 10 EWS racer, with a 3rd place at EWS Whistler 2017
• Only rider to successfully ride the full current Golfie trail network in a single day
• MBCUK Level 3 Coach
• Outdoor First Aid Qualified

Bringing his infectious smile with him wherever he goes, Tom brings the good vibes to any ride he is a part of. Starting his career working as a guide in the Whistler Bike Park in 2013, and rapidly expanding on that experience since he joined our team in March 2021, Tom has a wealth of experience working with groups on the hill. You’ll see Tom as a Coach on our Day Courses, Kids Academy or BASE College course, as well as leading guided rides around the local trails for our guiding outfit, Tweed Valley Guides. 

Tom is usually found up the Golfie on his enduro bike, but it’s becoming increasingly common to see Tom aboard his gravel bike, attempting to take it down some more “coarse” terrain.

Credentials

• Five years and counting coaching with Dirt School
• MBCUK Level 3 Coach
• British Cycling Level 3 Leader
• Emergency Outdoor first aid qualified

Fi joined the team back in 2020 and has been working with us full time ever since. When she’s not out on the hill leading sessions, she can be found working in our shop Tweed Valley Bikes where she looks after pretty much everything. Fi's enthusiasm for riding bikes is infectious, always bringing positivity and fun to any session she delivers. She's equally at home delivering our day courses, running our Kids Academy programme, or delivering private coaching sessions - she's always got a smile on her face.

Credentials

• Six years and counting coaching with Dirt School
• MBCUK Level 3 Coach
• British Cycling Level 2 Leader
• Outdoor First Aid Qualified
• Spent many years racing the Scottish Enduro Series between 2015 and 2019.
• Learnt to ride on a Kona Stinky during a season in Whistler

Swapping the world of finance for biking in 2019, our coach Paul is an experienced outdoorsman and possesses the unflappable confidence that only years spent in the hills can breed. As comfortable on an enduro stage as he is halfway up a remote Munro, Paul is a mountain biker in the truest sense of the word.

Paul splits his time between Dirt School and his work as a high level performance coach, working with the next generation of XC, CX and Enduro racers, and looks after our coach Zack too.

Credentials

• Seven years and counting coaching with Dirt School
• British Cycling Level 3 Leader
• British Cycling Level 3 Coach
• Strength & Conditioning in Sport, Level 2 Coach
• Emergency Outdoor first aid qualified

Our BASE College graduate Zack joined the team in September 2025 to bring his knowledge as a student and Enduro World Cup racer to the next generation of young up and coming riders. He moved to the Tweed Valley in 2021 when he started the BASE course as a student himself and has never left!

Zack is part of the Tweed Valley Bikes x Ibis Cycles race team, where he races both on the world cup circuit and at local and national races alike; he's highly focused on his training where he's looked after and motivated on a weekly basis by our coach Paul.

Credentials

• MBCUK Technical Trail Leader
• Outdoor First Aid Qualified
• Current Enduro World Cup Racer
• BASE College Graduate

A long standing and well known Tweed Valley fixture, you'll also find Neil managing our shop Tweed Valley Bikes where he'll be happy to give advice on all things or fix your bike for you too. A local trail builder and well travelled rider & climber, Neil knows the whole valley like the back of his hand and has been around the riding scene for almost 20 years now with a lifetime of outdoor experience before that. Whether he's up on the trails with a mattock, running a day course or chatting bikes, you'll see the same enthusiasm for the outdoors and people come through.

Credentials

• MBCUK Level 3 Coach
• Outdoor First Aid Qualified
• Long standing Tweed Valley Trail Builder and Dig Day Leader
• Tweed Valley Trails Association Founder

Andy Barlow began coaching for Dirt School back in 2009, and now mainly does his own thing working with some of the world's top level professional racers. He'll still occasionally work with our team though, particularly to support the delivery of our BASE College programme and deliver internal staff training.

His motivation to help as many people as possible get the most out of their time on their bikes make him the perfect match for anyone he works with. A well celebrated rider himself, Andy adds his pragmatic attention to detail, his excellent riding ability and his love of all things cycling into his mountain bike coaching.

Credentials

• MBCUK Level 3 Coach
• MBCUK Leadership Tutor
• ABMG Level 4 Guide
• British Cycling MTB Coach qualified
• Emergency Outdoor first aid qualified
• MBLA Mountain Bike Leader
• Scottish and GB XC mountain bike Champion 2009
• Trans Scotland 07 Winner (Solo)
• Scottish Junior Downhill mountain bike Champion 1997

Janey has been part of our coaching team since 2017, where she coached for many years before becoming a partner in 2020 and moving into an office based role as Managing Director of Tweed Valley Group. Janey now spends her time looking after our bike shop Tweed Valley Bikes, guiding outfit Tweed Valley Guides, suspension servicing centre TVB Tech and of course continuing to improve everything we do here at Dirt School.

• Dirt School Level 3 Coach
• MBLA Mountain Bike Leader
• Mountain Leader
• Advanced Outdoor First Aid Qualified
• 1st Class BSc Hons in Mathematics