By MBTom. The Trans Cambrian Way is a well known walking and cycling route that goes East-West from the English border at Knighton to the coast near Machynlleth. The total distance of around 110 miles has been done in 11 hours 44 minutes! There’s more info on the IMBA website including their 3 day outline maps. […]
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Saturday, Sunday, video, photo gallery. We visited Mudtrek in February and October 2012 plus there was a ladies visit in August. On top of that there was the Matt Page training weekend. A group of us spent the Thursday and Friday working on the Mudtrek skills park in pretty bad weather conditions. Various riders turned up on Friday
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After 18 months of rain we finally had some respite in March 2013. Things were looking good – I rode the Croft Trail one Friday and there was no need to wash the bike afterwards. That was a good feeling. Very good. Steve from Hargroves Cycles recced the route and reported on Facebook that the
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Kristian lead a ride from Barbury Castle, and here’s what he had to say about it: As we turned into the Barbury Castle car park we were met with a real pea-souper of a fog, just being able to see everyone setting up their bikes, and carrying out the usual faffing associated with our rides. It
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See the MBSwindon skills training courses – these are recommended before you venture off for more expensive courses! Shortcuts to video and photo gallery. The next course will be 16th-19th September 2013 (Mon-Thu). Contact Mudtrek for info. This was a three day mountain bike skills course with endurance racer Matt Page at one of our favourite
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The 2013 gravity race team are sponsored by Muc Off UKBikePark. This was a midweek uplift session and we ended up with 35 riders present (room for 40 maximum). Rain had been promised but it never happened. The trails were rock solid after several days without rain. Which was great. A real mixture of riders
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By Gary Palmer. Photos by Tom Stickland, Gary Palmer, Gary Yeates and Pete Toop. I got to the leisure centre car park in Stroud at 9.30 ish and there were already some guys there. Keen me thinks. The weather definitely looked like it was going to be kind to us. What a relief because this
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A video of a preview ride of the February Red Kite winter xc course at Coed Trallwm in mid Wales. See some rides that we did with Red Kite events: Jubilee trip June 2012 , Crychan Forest Dec 2011, MIOWEOW 2011. More information on the Red Kite website.
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This is Tim Norris’ ride report on Phil Allum’s Bronze Age Epic ride. You can read more of Tim’s biking and other stuff on his blog. The day began with a breakfast of porridge, raisins and a banana. This was a nice bit of fuel for the ride ahead and helped to warm me through
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The 2012 AGM was held at the Sun Inn near Coate Water in Swindon. Review of year Events 144 MBSwindon events (1 every 2.5 days) 100 Novice Friendly rides (also include Fridays) 51 Friday Night rides 16 Ladies Only 125 Local events 19 away events 16 Build Days plus 14 training events Doesn’t include unofficial
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