Words and photos by Gary Palmer After doing this event in 2014 from Llanwrtyd Wells I was quite looking forward to it; time is a great healer! I don’t know whether I had my own personal cloud last year but it rained on me from start to finish, took me just over eight hours […]
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The Little Devil is a very popular off road Marathon/endurance type event of approx 60km, with riders from previous events raving about it. Here is Tom Stickland’s review of the Frozen Devil: http://www.mbtom.co.uk/frozen-devil-2014/ For this year there is a change of location, with the Little Devil being held at Nant-yr-Arian in Aberystwyth, Mid Wales. Here
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Gary Palmer will be leading this ride, which will be around 16 miles, but with nearly 1900 ft of climbing. Gary’s first recce for this was quite muddy in places, so it was quite a hard slog and took over four hours! This won’t be a novice ride but if you are happy with riding at places like Cwmcarn then this will
The much loved RedKite Events / Empire Cycles enduros of 2014 have gained a massive new sponsor for 2015 and a slight name change to become The Mondraker Enduro Series. They are based in Llanwrtyd Wells, but this first round will be at the Coed Trallwm Trail Centre, just down the road. These are gravity
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Guest ride leader and long-term club member, Steve Dunn has agreed to take us for a ride around the South Chiltern Hills near his home at Marlow Bottom. We last rode this area in September 2014 and it was a cracking ride – read the report here. Although this is a reasonably long ride, it
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New to mountain biking? Haven’t ridden a bike since you were a child but fancy giving it a go again? Want to improve your fitness? Jason Rodger is arranging a series of beginner mountain biking rides to help people who are just starting out to improve their confidence and fitness so that they can join the club’s novice friendly rides. This ride will be
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Gary Palmer is leading this challenging ride which will include some nice single track, bombholes, slippy roots and some tasty climbing. The distance will be about 17 miles and should take about 3.5 hours. Although this is a relatively short ride, Gary stresses that the distance does not reflect the effort required to complete it! If conditions are good,
Words and Photos by Gary Palmer The weather in the week previous to this ride had been – to say the least – a tad wet, so i knew the ride’s title was spot on. However, the sun was shining beautifully on the day. The car park was packed. What are those dog walkers like
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Words by Tom Scott It was with trepidation that I approached this ride. For one thing, I had badly sprained my wrist the weekend before on the recce. I was also kind of dreading having too many people turn up, as I had 16 yesses and 29 maybes on the Facebook event. However, as we
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Tom Scott will be leading this 26 mile 385 yards ride around Swindon. The route will be part cycle track, part road, part gravel… and of course a bit of mud. Although longer than the average novice ride, this ride will be at a steady pace, will not involve too much climbing and very little
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