The second day of our March push. It’s outside and it can be muddy. Useful tools include spade, shovel, tree saw, mattock, wheel barrow, cakes, chocolate. We meet at the Croft Trail car park at 10am. Everyone is welcome and we don’t mind when you turn up or how long you stay. If you can’t […]
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The first day of our March push. Please contact (here on facebook) if you intend to come on this day. Tom will be moving rubble from various locations around Swindon, so if you just turn up you might not find anyone there. It’s outside and it can be muddy. Useful tools include spade, shovel, tree
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On Sat 13th March local mountain bikers http://settingascene.com/ are having a ride and trail building event. Join their forum and discuss here. We also have this as a Facebook event and on this site here. We have 6 trail build days planned for March. The aim is to make some serious progress on the new
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A very productive build day. Phil and the man whose name we keep forgetting started on fixing the sunken section at the start (built in June 2009). They were joined a bit later by Pete and finally by Tom. The whole section had sunk into the mud, so the existing gravel was buried under a
Trail build report, Sunday 21st Feb 2010. Read More »
Meeting at Croft Trail car park on Sunday at 10am. I’ll be staying until it’s dark at around 17:30. Everyone will be welcome, even if you just want to come along and say hello. We intend to use the rubble to get Piper’s hill back into shape. This is one of our favourite bits of
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Trail Building Day @ Croft Trail on 20th Feb 2010. Meeting in the car park at 12:00. Feel free to turn up and leave whenever you want We’ve got big plans for 2010, but a mixture of bad weather, dark days and lack of materials have held us back so far. This is the first
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We now have 3 large crates of rubble and concrete on the site ready to be used for fixing some of the boggy sections. There’s also 10 tonnes of crushed concrete ready to go. We believe that we’ll soon have funding for another lorry load of the Red MOT grade gravel.
Trail work Fri 19th and Sat 20th Feb 2010. Read More »
QUIET Things have gone a bit quiet on the trail building in the last few months. This is because we used up our supplies of MOT grade gravel and also had no funding in place to buy any more. WEBSITE The time hasn’t been wasted though; this website has been developed and is attracting a
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This was our first official MBSwindon club ride after launching in February 2010! At the time we had around 20 signed up members. Eight riders started from Barbury castle and took in a loop down Smeathe’s ridge, around Ogborne St George before returning via Four mile clump. Since then the club has grown and organises
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The trail itself is looking a little worse for wear in places, mainly due to the bad weather that we’ve had for the last couple of months. Nothing that can’t be fixed with a little hard work and some gravel. Speaking of gravel, we are now in desperate need of some. If anyone knows of
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