Richard Ford will be leading a novice friendly route of 12 miles (approx). The route will take in some club favourites including the radio mast climb and Rickety Bridge. We should be out for 2 hours approx. Please bring lights in case we are delayed by mechanicals.
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Tim Norris is leading this ride on 10th May. We will start at the Knoll Down car park near Beckhampton and via Morgans Hill Nature Reserve and the Furze Knoll bomb hole to reach Oliver’s Castle Hill Fort. We will wind our way back up over Cherhill and then follow NCR 403 to Avebury and
Words by Tim Norris Photos by Tim Norris and Sarah Bailey I was nearly late for the start of my own ride – the result of having an extra biscuit with my tea and slightly underestimating how long it would take me to ride to the start However, when I arrived everyone else seemed
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Update: Due to the high winds in the area, this ride will now be a shorter ride on lower ground. Meet at Coate Water at 6pm. Tom Scott will be leading this week’s midweek ride, which will offer two options. The long option (30 miles) We will be leaving from Coate at 6pm and heading
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Words by Phil Allum Bike Park Wales opened in August 2013 providing plenty of downhill trails for people who prefer letting gravity do the hard work. They have trails to suit all riders, from the ‘wheels firmly on the ground’ to the ‘f*%@ it, let’s huck it’ brigade. Starting with the flowing blue runs like
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Words by Gary Lee Photos by Gary Lee and Hilda May Latham Quantocks Revisited is quite an apt title; we came here as a club about two years ago and had not been back since – it’s been far too long. Not as far to drive as Afan and only a little further than Cwmcarn
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Words by Chris Hopkinson Late October 2014. I’ve just come back from my first properly wet and muddy ride of the autumn/winter. Although still rideable, my favourite local trails won’t be ridden with any ‘type-1 fun’ for some time and I’m daydreaming about blasting my way down dry and dusty singletrack with the sun on
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Simon Oxlade is leading this week’s midweek ride, and says, “It will be at a bit of a plodding, steady pace and so ideal for Newbies.” Meet at Coate water by the cafe at 7:30. We’ll then heading out over the Curly Whirly bridge to Chisledon and on to Draycott Foliat before climbing Swire’s (Smeathe’s)
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Words and photos by Phil Allum We meet up at Lydiard Park cafe for a little jolly around the cycleways of west & north Swindon. Eleven dedicated souls decided that the Easter eggs could wait and that a bike ride was the first event of the day; good on them. The ride started at the earlier
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Join Debbie Davies on this ladies-only ride and get your cycling year kick-started. This will be an urban route along cycle paths of the local area, taking in some of the parks and woodland on the way. The route is absolutely non-technical with a few short, simple hills, so suitable for novices. Don’t be put off by the
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