Photos: Hargroves demo day @Croft Trail
Photos from the Hargroves Cycles mountain bike demo day held at the Croft Trail on the 6th of May 2012 (photos from 2011).
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Ride Report
Ride report: Swinley Forest (near Bracknell) Sun 29th April
See the photos from our visit to Swinley in November 2011 plus the gpx route maps. Full map: OS | Bing | Map my ride | GPX Simplified map: OS | GPX It had rained for two weeks and the forecast was for heavy rain. So we had high hopes that the sunny weather would
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Ride report: Forest of Dean women’s ride
Ride on Sunday 15th April 2012 So, another glorious day for the MBSwindon ladies (well, until it snowed!) It was lovely to be joined by Jen (+1) +the hubby supervising), Jo, Natasha, Sarah, Bridget, new recruit Ann, Lorna, and honorary girl for the day, Richard (recovering from knee surgery). As planned, we congregated in the
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Prospect Hospice Big Ride 2012 photos
These are photos from the team marking out the route and from the event itself on Sunday 22nd April 2012. Route maps here. Photobucket photos of riders on the long route here. Full size photos also on Flickr. A group of 9 volunteers spent several hours on Saturday marking out the routes. Our luck was
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Ride report: Hopton Woods
This was a sneaky recce ride that Phil and myself did at the newly opened red grade trail at Hopton Woods in Shropshire. The trail had a mixture of surfaced parts, muddy sections, a really interesting section round the quarry and also linked into some of the easier downhill tracks. A really interesting trail and
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Ride report: Ledbury and the Malverns
Ride report By Tony Holmes The Malvern Hills was another new venue for MB Swindon and this particular outing was led by Ross Miller of Ledbury Mountain Bikers. We set off at 10:30 from the centre of Ledbury in clear weather and we followed a short stretch of road out of town beofre turning onto
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Croft Trail open day April 2012
Photos from our Croft Trail open day held on Sunday 1st April 2012. We had The Fetish Bike Company on site plus The Big Adventure Store and a social visit from Hargroves. MBSwindon provided cakes and a BBQ. The Swindon Coffee gang provided coffee and tea. The weather was as good as it gets with
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Ride report: ride with Witney Mountain Bike Club
This was an MBSwindon club visit to Witney to join the Witney Mountain Bike Club for a local ride (also on facebook). We met up at with the club at 10am in a car park outside the local shops for local people on the edge of town. Iain Simms was our guide for the day.
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Ride report: Ladies ride to Cotswold Water park
Ride report and photos by Sharon Bassingdale Yet again the luck of the MBSwindon ladies was with us, with another absolute scorcher! Thankyou once again weather gods! As planned, we started bang on 10:15am from Mouldon Hill car park. We set off out around the lake and over to the railway. Then a “boring” bit
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Ride report: Cwm Carn (with big crash)
This was a joint club ride, novice friendly ride and women’s ride. Info about Cwm Carn trails. Photos from previous ride there. We had 15 riders in the Cwm Carn car park ready for the 10:15 start. We set off as a single group with the plan to split if there was a major difference
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