Bike week barbecue photos
MBSwindon organised a barbecue and social evening at The Croft Trail. There were a few laps of the trail completed and a lot of eating. The weather was very kind to us.
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Elan Valley MTB Challenge
The event will start from Rhayader (LD6 5HP). There will be 30k, 50k and 75k options. More Elan valley photos here. More information on the Red Kite Events website. See some rides that we did with Red Kite events: Crychan Forest Dec 2011, MIOWEOW 2011.
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Wyre Forest (possibly Kinver + camping too)
We’ve been to the Wyre forest a few times and it’s one our favourite locations for natural singletrack and steep descents. See the ride reports from July 2011, April 2011 and August 2010. The Sunday ride is definitely happening…a provisional plan is to stay at the Hopleys Camp Site on the edge of Bewdley on Friday night, ride
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Ride Report – Wyre Forest Camping Weekend.
Wyre Camping Weekend We were not optimistic about the weather for this weekend and although Friday afternoon at the Hopleys Campsite was lovely and warm it did not last over until the Saturday unfortunately. Richard Barnett arrived on Friday evening so three of us adjourned to the Beer and Pizza tent. The weather however gradually
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Croft Trail evening social/ride with BBQ
Come and join us for our regular Friday night social rides, but this time as part of bike week we will also have the BBQ out. So bring down some burgers, sausages or whatever takes your fancy and chuck it on the BBQ whilst you have a lap of the trail. An evening/night ride at
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Race report: Mountain Mayhem 2013
Over the last two years we’ve entered teams in the 12 hour races at Erlestoke, Bristol Bikefest and Bristol Oktoberfest. We’ve also entered teams into the 24 hour races at Twentyfour12 and Sleepless in the saddle. We’d never got round to riding Mountain Mayhem, billed as “the biggest 24-hour mountain bike endurance event worldwide” (Wikipedia article). This
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Enduro1 Gravity Enduro – Rd 2 Forest of Dean
Words by Captain James Scott Team of four – James, Mike, Jason and Dion Home territory! A nice local race for us this time around although it used tracks that were mostly unknown to us, thankfully staying away from the well ridden trail centre stuff and showing the racers what the FoD has to offer
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Enduro1 Gravity Enduro – Rd 2 Forest of Dean
Team (James, Mike, Jason, Dion) – 2nd from 6
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Mountain Mayhem 2013
Mountain Mayhem is the biggest relay race event in the UK but we’ve never put in any club teams into it before! That was quite a lucky coincidence in 2012 when it gained a reputation as the biggest mud fest of the year. To be fair, Bontrager Twentyfour 12 and Sleepless in the Saddle also had
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Croft Trail evening social/ride
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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