Resistance & Rebellion was the first inclusive women’s Mills and Moors event held at Blazing Saddles bike shop in Hebden Bridge on Sunday 5th October 2025. There were three routes to choose from each of which took riders into a landscape that held stories of women and girls everyday and extraordinary resistance and rebellion across the mills and moors of West Yorkshire.

An amazing 115 riders signed up for the event and on the day 75 riders headed out to enjoy the off road riding on routes that showcased the best of the gritty north and the women and girls who have shaped its landscape and history.

 
 
 
Three routes on event day
 

Event team

 
 
 

Ticket Prices

 

£5 for 12-15 years old

£10 for 16-25 year olds

£20 everyone else

Ticket includes tea / coffee / cake at the Event Hub and one embroidered cloth badge per event.

 
 

INspirational bit

 

“I have fled my country and gone to the heather.”

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights (1847)

 

“And the moors were always there and never without their promise.”

J.B.Priestley

Bright Days (1944)

 

“Water, that strong white stuff, can here be seen at its origins. It wells from the rock, and flows away. For unnumbered years it has welled from the rock and flowed away. It does nothing, absolutely nothing, but be itself.”

Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain (1977)