Ladies Ride – Forest of Dean 25/05/13 By Sarah Bailey As always our ladies officer, Sharon Bassindale, arranged for glorious weather for the ladies ride in Forest of Dean. Unfortunately, Sharon was unable to attend – something about acrobatics gone wrong! The job of back marker, I mean ride leader, fell to me. To […]
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Maps / Video / Photo gallery If you like the look of the DH trails then keep an eye on our gravity team and their Facebook page for info on uplift days and dh evening sessions. It was almost two years to the day since our previous visit to the Quantock hills. Six of us met in Holford car park on a
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The Spambiking Erlestoke12 event takes place on MOD land near the Erlestoke prison. It’s one of our favourite locations. It provides a lot of interesting singletrack. The 2012 route followed a similar layout to previous years albeit with some minor modifications. The bomb holes at the top of the hill were still probably the best
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I love mountain biking. I love yoga. So I was excited when Facebook spewed up an advert for “a mountain biking yoga weekend”. I liked the idea so much that I booked a place before reading the details. Probably. It was organised by Mountain Yoga Breaks – see their website, Facebook and Twitter pages. I’ve been riding for over a
Mountain yoga breaks – Elan valley mountain biking weekend. Read More »
See the Lake District trip write up on the MBTom blog. .
Lake District trip (it rained). Read More »
Photos from the Hargroves Cycles MTB demo day at the Croft Trail in Swindon. This was an opportunity to try out brand new models for free. Brands present were Specialized, Scott, Cube, Stevens and Genesis. The MBSwindon club stand and BBQ was present. Coffee, cakes and sandwiches were served by Cafe-Xpresso and Donna from Back2fitness
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The 2013 gravity race team are sponsored by Muc Off UKBikePark. This was one of our bi-monthly midweek uplift sessions. We had around 30 riders present. The trails were rock solid after a few weeks without rain. Once again we had a really good mix of riders present. We were given instructions to ride the new HSE trail to
Fancy trying out some new bikes for free? MTB demo day at the Croft Trail on Sun 5th May. Photos from the Prospect Hospice Big Ride 2013. MBSwindon organised the route, marking, clearing and sweeping. We got great feedback from the riders. Rob Twitchell: “brilliant ride guys, well thought out and well marshalled.” Ray Stevens:
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By Phil Allum One of the many great benefits of being a member of MBSwindon is the sharing of knowledge, especially local route knowledge. This is the route I do if I’m short on time and have been round the Croft trail too many times already that week. Riding to Lydiard Park on the morning of
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The Red Kite Events Devil’s MTB was an off road event with a choice of 30, 60 and 80km routes. There was a road sportive and a cross country run happening on the same day. The recently thawed snow made the ground heavy going in places but on the plus side the week of sun had
Red Kite Devil’s MTB map and photos (video on way). Read More »
