Words and photos by Kristian Price Sunday morning dawned bright and breezy and, as usual, I had an entirely dry ride planned for the 17 riders who turned up for this ride out to the Cotswold Water Parks. Dry, that is, from the sky; I never said anything about the condition of the paths around […]
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Kristian Price will be leading a ride of approximately 19 miles to the Costwold Water Park. There will be some road riding to get to the old Swindon to Cricklade Railway line to Cricklade, then a cafe stop on the Spine Road before heading around the lakes and back to Swindon. It’s a very flat
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Sharon Bassindale has arranged another Ladies only ride on Sunday January 19th. Meet in the car park for a relaxed-paced ride around some of the local landmarks. Remember to wrap up warm – though hopefully it won’t be quite as cold as last January’s -7.5 degrees!
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On Saturday 18th January, Richard Ford will lead a novice friendly ride starting from Barbury Castle. At 21 miles, it will be a slightly longer route than most novice rides, taking in the Ridgeway, Aldbourne and a couple of cracking local descents. There are a few hills, but as usual we will wait and
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Using the Urban Round loop as mapped by Swindon Borough Council, which takes in part of Route 45, this route is a mixture of purpose built cycle tracks, old railway lines and road. A decent set of lights is required as there are some sections with little street lighting (mainly the old railway line sections).
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Although this is not an MB Swindon event, there are usually quite a few of our members who take part. This is a well organised cross country event held at Erlestoke, Wiltshire. SPAM biking organise various events throughout the year including the Erlestoke 12.This one, the SPAM Winter Challenge, has three distances to chose from,
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In line with MB Swindon tradition, we will be running the ever popular Christmas Recovery Ride on the 27th December 2013. This is a great way to burn off some of the Christmas excesses and get yourself out of the house. The route will take in some of our local ‘must ride’ locations, including the
Ever ridden all day – literally?! To mark the shortest day of the year, MB Swindon is holding a day long ‘Dawn to Dusk’ ride along some of its favourite local routes. Both rides are novice friendly, and you can decide whether to do a morning, an afternoon or a whole day ride. If you
Words and photos by Richard Ford Surprisingly, this was the first MB Swindon ride since February to start from Barbury Castle. I rode from there a lot in the summer and the planned ride was a slightly longer version of one of my favourite evening loops. I was the first person to arrive at 9:30am,
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Richard Ford is leading a novice-friendly ride from Barbury Castle. Starting at Barbury the ride will head along the Ridgeway to Rockley, taking in a couple of nice bits of singletrack and some optional drops along the way. From Rockley we will head to Ogbourne St Andrew and then St George. Finally we will tackle
