Tom is currently at work planning a, like, totally rad, big phat bike ride (or like, whatever!) This ride will take in the best of Swindon’s urban single, double, gravel, tarmac and concrete tracks! Nothing too technical, relaxed pace, frequent stops if needed. Optional laps of Croft before and after! This will be a […]
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Words and photos by Gary Yeates I set off from home to the arranged start point at the Ellendune Centre in Wroughton with a mixture of anticipation and slight apprehension, as this was my first time to lead a ride. It wasn’t too technical a route, but was designed to link together some of my
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Gary Yeates will lead a ride from Wroughton on Sat 23 November. Meet at the Ellendune car park, Barrett Way, Wroughton SN4 9LW (next to health centre) ready for a 10am start. The route is 25 miles with about 445m of ascents/descents. Although not strictly ‘novice-friendly’, this will be ridden at a relaxed pace and
Words and Photos by Phil Allum Back in February we rode this route in freezing conditions, with rock solid frozen ground. In the summer, Richard Ford took us around parts of it in lovely warm, sunny conditions. With the lack of rain, the ground had been baked hard by the sun. But today, a mild November day,
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Words by Tom Scott Photos by Fluffy Stockings Twelve brave souls gathered for a ‘Novice Friendly‘ ride of some 20 miles along the Ridgeway. I planned this ride for 3 reasons: 1) As a recce for the Dawn to Dusk ride on 21st December, 2) Because my previous Western Ridgeway ride had taken the
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Tom Scott will be leading a novice-friendly ride of approximately 20miles. From Coate Water, the ride will take in Foxhill, Liddington Hill, Ogbourne, Smeathes Ridge, Barbury Castle and Chiseldon ferore heading back to Coate. This is a reasonably hilly route, but as usual no one will be left behind.
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Words and pictures By Gary Palmer On the way to the start point at Tetbury, I pulled over to take this picture. It looked like a promise of a nice day – a bit chilly though. I’d had a look on Facebook and it didn’t look like too many people would be turning up. A
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Gary Palmer will be leading a novice friendly ride on the 6th of October. The ride will be about 20 miles long over bits of bridleway, small stretches of single track and some country roads. Rather unusually – for one of Gary’s rides – there will be ‘no testing hills,’ and the pace will
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Our Ladies Officer Sharon will be leading a ladies-only ride at the ever popular Ashton Court and Leigh Woods trails in Bristol. All the trails here are graded blue, with optional trickier bits – basically this means there is something suitable for every level of rider. Meet in the car park at the golf course (map here)
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words and photos by Tim Norris (Read more by Tim here) We had a great ride yesterday around some of my local trails and tourist attractions. Roundway Down, Beacon Hill and Morgan’s Hill are local nature reserves and popular walking spots with stunning views on a clear day. It wasn’t the nicest day for views
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