Housewives’ favourite Kristian Price is leading this ride which starts from the Mouldon hill car park on the edge of Swindon and moves into little visited territory towards the Cotswold water park. See the ride report from February 2012. Mouldon Hill is planned to be the Southern end of the Swindon and Cricklade railway.
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One of our favourite events of 2012 (see the photos). A relaxed event with timed downhill stages. Nothing too stupid either in terms of big jumps, just about smooth speed against the clock. More info on the Shred website. Based at the Holnicote Estate near Porlock on Exmoor. Online entry for the 2013 Mondraker Gravity
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An evening/night ride at The Croft Trail. All welcome of any ability level – no one gets left behind on our group rides. Novice Friendly group starts a few minutes after the main group. This is a great chance to be given a guided tour of the trails if you’ve never been before and a
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This was a recce ride of Bredon Hill. We started from Beckford village hall and found a group from the About Bikes bike shop in Evesham were also riding the hill. Same place, same time. Anthony Holmes and myself spent just under two and a half hours on this ride. The weather and views were amazing. The
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Tony Holmes and Mark Bonnes will be leading this ride over Bredon hill in Worcestershire. This offers amazing views of the Severn estuary and is listed in the “Good MTB Guide” so it must be worth the trip. Meet for 7pm at the Beckford Village Hall. Google map. Facebook event page.
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Garys Great Descents By Tim Norris – see Tim’s blog. Video Rafe’s fish finger baguette looked nice, but I was more than satisfied with my cheese, tomato and red onion toastie and its accompanying salad at The New Inn, Waterley Bottom. Washed down by a refreshingly cold pint my lunch was now sitting nicely in my belly, as
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This was a low key team event – just Aaron from Cotswold Veldrijden and myself, together known as “the odd pair”. Out for a 10 hour pair at the Thetford Enduro in Thetford forest organised by Thetford MTB Racing (this event was near Thetford). Officially called the Reval Outdoor Summer Enduro. Did anyone make it to
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Gary Palmer is leading a 40km long ride around Dursley and the Stroud valleys that incorporates some spectacular views, fair climbs and great descents. 40km long, 927m climbing 885m descending The ride is expected to take around 5 hours to complete, with a lunch stop to be taken at the New Inn, Waterly Bottom. Meeting
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An evening/night ride at The Croft Trail. All welcome of any ability level – no one gets left behind on our group rides. Novice Friendly group starts a few minutes after the main group. This is a great chance to be given a guided tour of the trails if you’ve never been before and a
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The Red Kite Events Elan Valley Challenge offered several on and off road routes plus a running event. I’d already been to the Devil’s MTB in April 2013. I had intended to the do the monster 130km off-road route (85miles) and had spent a week resting and psyching myself up for it. I reckoned that 10
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