Full newsletter coming later in the week. Quick update for now. Curry Night Our fund raising curry night is on Monday 11th October. This is at the Bombay Lounge in Peatmoor and all profits from the restaurant on the night will go to MBSwindon Club and Croft Trail. We’ve got a raffle of MTB related […]
News update October 2010 Read More »
With winter approaching Hargroves have a deal on winter tyres. SPECIALIZED STORM CONTROL TYRE 26 X 2.0 Tubeless ready. RRP: £24.99 MB SWINDON MEMBERS: £17.99! Available in the Swindon branch of Hargroves cycles for MBSwindon club members for a limited time. List of previous special offers.
Hargroves Cycles deal of the week 5th Oct 2010. Read More »
Rhayader Nant Y Arian Words and photos by Pete Ratcliffe. It was a very wet, miserable 7am when we left Swindon. Arriving at Rhayader in mid Wales 2.5hrs later it wasn’t much better! The original plan had been to follow a route over the hills round Rhayader. The clouds were very low and looked to
Ride report: Nant Y Arian 3rd October 2010 Read More »
We had a community payback team booked for the day. It rained all day Friday and a lot of Saturday, with more forecast for Sunday, so we weren’t sure who would turn up. There was a MBSwindon ride taking place, so we weren’t expecting a big turnout of volunteers either. As it happened, we had
Trail build report: Sun 3rd Oct 2010 Read More »
Alan says: This is great for people who like riding trail centres and have never been a non trail centre destination in Wales. The ride itself is 35km with about 1200m of climbing so its not an easy ride, it would be comparable to Skyline…, W2 at Afan or The Beast at Coedybrenin. Here is
Club ride: Rhayader loop (mid Wales). Read More »
If you want to ride then go on the trip to Rhayader. We’ve built a lot of new trail this year. We need to surface some existing sections to ensure that they survive the winter. The aim will be to reinforce several bits of Piper’s hill (1 on the map) with rubble before the probation
Build day October 2010 #1 Read More »
Novice friendly ride at our custom built trail in Swindon. Turn up anytime between 2pm and 6pm for as many or as few laps as you like at a speed you are comfortable with, guided by our qualified instructors and friendly and experienced club members. It takes around half an hour to do a complete
Daytime ride at Croft Trails Read More »
This was a solo trip to some trails in the North of England on a bit of holiday I took after a work trip. I thought it would be worth writing a review of them. See our trail centre map for more trail locations in the UK. Friday 24th Sept 2010 – Kielder Saturday 25th
Review: 3 Northern Trails Read More »
This is a cross country race in the Forest of Dean. Riders can select 1, 2 or 4 laps. More information on the Royal Dean Forest Riding Club website.
Forest of Dean MTB Enduro 2010 Read More »
This looks like a great event. Afan has some of our favourite trails, including White’s Level, Skyline, The Wall and the original Penhydd (9ft.com) routes. More information. Start location on Google Maps. More information on the Tynaen Theatre (Theatr). GPS map of Afan Monster route.
Macmillan Afan Monster Read More »
