Words by Phil Allum Bike Park Wales opened in August 2013 providing plenty of downhill trails for people who prefer letting gravity do the hard work. They have trails to suit all riders, from the ‘wheels firmly on the ground’ to the ‘f*%@ it, let’s huck it’ brigade. Starting with the flowing blue runs like […]
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Words by Gary Lee Photos by Gary Lee and Hilda May Latham Quantocks Revisited is quite an apt title; we came here as a club about two years ago and had not been back since – it’s been far too long. Not as far to drive as Afan and only a little further than Cwmcarn
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Words by Chris Hopkinson Late October 2014. I’ve just come back from my first properly wet and muddy ride of the autumn/winter. Although still rideable, my favourite local trails won’t be ridden with any ‘type-1 fun’ for some time and I’m daydreaming about blasting my way down dry and dusty singletrack with the sun on
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Words and photos by Phil Allum We meet up at Lydiard Park cafe for a little jolly around the cycleways of west & north Swindon. Eleven dedicated souls decided that the Easter eggs could wait and that a bike ride was the first event of the day; good on them. The ride started at the earlier
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Reposted with the kind permission of MB Swindon Member and Ride Leader Tim Norris – https://timfromwales.wordpress.com/ There is nothing more satisfying for me as a mountain biker than riding somewhere new. Riding in a new location, twisting along singletrack and dropping into bomb holes that I have never seen before brings back the thrill of
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Words and photos by Gary Palmer After doing this event in 2014 from Llanwrtyd Wells I was quite looking forward to it; time is a great healer! I don’t know whether I had my own personal cloud last year but it rained on me from start to finish, took me just over eight hours
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Ride Report by Debbie Davies: Ladies rides are famed for their good weather, warm breezes, sunlight, everything that creates that feel good factor as you pedal away from the meeting point. So as I left my house on the first day of Summer destined for the meeting place at Lydiard Park Cafe, I was a
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Words: Tom Scott I knew it would be wet. I knew it would be windy. Why? because I spent all last week sat at work whilst the sun shone, and with a generous helping of sod’s law it was bound to be bad. Anyhow, up I got, off I set, and halfway down Shaftesbury Avenue
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Words: Phil Allum Pics: Tom Stickland I’ve just got back from an incredible weekend’s racing at the first round of the Mondraker Enduro Series, formerly known as the Redkite events / Empire Cycles Enduro series. Fancy a read of my ramblings on this Welsh cracker? Want to know more about this Enduro malarkey? Well, get
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Words: Gary Palmer Pics: Kaye Mortimer Ryan Ten brave souls gathered outside the scout hut on the old London Road just outside Wooten under edge, I get a text from Paul & Richard saying he’s stuck on the M5, after much thought I decide to say sod em they can catch us up (Paul’s idea
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