How to train a trail dog with Tom and Ruby

How to develop the skills, trust and commands to ride safely with your shredoggo

Tom and Ruby talk us through how to train your own trail dog

Jack Luke

Published: November 17, 2017 at 3:00 pm

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There’s little more appealing than the thought of shredding your local trails with your bestest furry friend, but how do you train a trail dog?

Long-term friend of BikeRadar, Tom Wragg talks us through how he and Ruby — a handsome Hungarian Wizla who’s certainly no stranger to the BikeRadar audience — developed the skills, trust and commands necessary to ride together safely.

Be sure to keep up with Ruby's exploits via her Instagram!

If you prefer your pups a little more dumpy, you can always check out our review of Poppy the short-travel enduro hound.

Deputy editor

Jack Luke is the deputy editor at BikeRadar and has been fettling with bikes for his whole life. Always in search of the hippest new niche in cycling, Jack is a self-confessed gravel dork, fixie-botherer, tandem-evangelist and hill climb try hard. Jack thinks nothing of bikepacking after work to sleep in a ditch or taking on a daft challenge for the BikeRadar YouTube channel. He is also a regular contributor to the BikeRadar podcast. With a near encyclopaedic knowledge of cycling tech, ranging from the most esoteric retro niche to the most cutting-edge modern kit, Jack takes pride in his ability to seek out stories that would otherwise go unreported. He is also particularly fond of tan-wall tyres, dynamo lights, cup and cone bearings, and skids. Jack has been writing about and testing bikes for more than six years now, has a background working in bike shops for years before that, and is regularly found riding a mix of weird and wonderful machines. Jack can also often be seen zooming about with his partner aboard their beloved tandem.