After consultation with this week’s troops, Graham Burgess will be leading a “Midweek Lumps and Bumps” ride starting at 7:00pm SHARP from John Lewis carpark (faffers please arrive early….) Totally novice friendly with no difficult technical bits – just a couple of hours or so gently meandering through single track lanes, the odd bridleway and […]
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Join Simon Oxlade for a healthy pedal around the town roughly following the Council’s Urban Round route – but backwards! Distance will be about 17 miles on cycleways, bridlepaths and some road. The route is suitable for all levels of rider with no steep hills and only one steep descent which is walkable if necessary.
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Words and photos: Debbie Davies So the day starts at Barbury Castle car park with Sarah , Caroline, Sharon, Kat, Kaye, Iryda and myself and the usual discussions of what is the best coat to take . We leave those tyre pressure conversations to the men. An overcast sky greeted us as we set off
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Tom Scott will be leading another variant of the Wednesday “urban” ride, which in the summer are distinctly less urban and decidedly more trail. This week’s Wednesday Ride will start from Croft and will include a lap of the excellent Croft Mountain Bike Trail, followed by a 2 hour bike ride, aiming to get back to
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Tom Scott (and possibly Graham) will be leading this Novice Friendly ride. We will be out for about 2 hours and therefore plan to be back at the start point by 9.30pm. It would be a good idea to bring lights if you are cycling to and from the ride. The route will depend on the
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This week’s urban round will start at 7.00pm from Asda, North Swindon, (the entrance to the orbital shopping park). Usual format, if its wet then urban, if dry and it looks to be so, we will head out towards South Cerney, see how far we get in an hour or so, then turn and retrace our
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John Crocker will be leading this regular midweek ride. This weeks urban round will start from Covingham shops (SN3 5AA), adjacent to the Messenger pub at 7.00pm, we will be at Coate Water at 7.15 (ish) if you want to start there. Depending on the weather, if it’s good we will head out of Swindon towards
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This week’s Wednesday evening urban round will start from Asda, north Swindon at 7.00pm. We will ride over to the John Lewis store via Mannington, then do a loop around west Swindon including Shaw Forest, then back towards the start point. If there is time, a lap of Mouldon Hill will be included. As usual,
Urban(ish) round, starts at Asda, north Swindon (entrance to the Orbital park) at 7.00pm on Wednesday 16th. We will head to Croft via Mannington for a lap. Then up into old town, then down the former Midland and South Western Junction Railway track bed, over to Shaw forest and if time permits Mouldon hill. Route
MB Swindon AGMThe Sun Inn, Swindon23 February 2014 Chairman’s welcome Phil welcomed 26 attendees (23 members) and the 4 other committee members in attendance: Tom – Club & Media Secretary Chris – Social Events Officer Kat – Membership Secretary Sharon – Women’s Officer Apologies were received from Rafe (Treasurer & Webmaster). 1. Staff elections Chair –
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