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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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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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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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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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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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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Reproduced in full from Tim’s excellent Blog at www.timfromwales.wordpress.com Photographs by Kristian Price, Tom Scott and Richard Ford. I am not sure what brought 16 riders out on Saturday: was it the sun, maybe it was my extensive marketing campaign in the form of photos and videos of the ride? Perhaps readers of
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We had 23 riders taking part in the 2013 Ritchey Bristol Bikefest. Things got off to a good start when we arrived at 2:30pm on the Friday and were able to bag a spot for our two gazebos right next to the transition area and the podium. Not so good was the rain that fell for
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Article copied from MBTom. Maps | Photo gallery A Cycling offer guiding and coaching as well as running a race team sponsored by Pivot Cycles. It was set up by endurance racer Matt Page with his wife Nia. Matt recently set the record for the Welsh coast to coast challenge (c2c) covering the 210 miles in 18 hours and 41 minutes. There’s between 7,000
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