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 urban round rides.

 Peaks with  Hit the Hills, Long Mynd, Morzine, Mudtrek, North Wales Hit the hills

Trail build

•  A big push in March to be ready for open day in April followed by a rest for the summer!
• 16 build days compared with 28 the previous year (approx 60%).
•  4 x 20 tonnes = 80 tonnes.
• 3 loads used gabion rocks.
•  Estimate resurfaced 4 x 300 = 1200m of trail (20%). Compared with 1850 the previous year (approx 60%).
•  Last year estimated that there was 500m of trail to fix.
•  80 tonnes of material is 20,000 shovel fulls

March

• Resurfacing (tennis courts, start), car park entrance (23 present!)
• Triangle finished and opened
• Signposts
• Blue loop combined

September

• North side 2^nd half fix up (24!)
• Triangle top up
• Fences

October

• North side 1^st half

November

• Raking

December

• South side
• North side Roller coaster pipers
• Drainage

  Club Stats

	2013	2012	2013/2012
Members	269	177	+52%
Facebook	805	534	+51%
Subscribers	612	391	+56%
Club offers	36	28	+28%
Twitter	308	59	X 5!
Web visits*	61,101	56,000	+8%
Web unique	33,857 (92 per day)	27,000	+25%

 

*15^th Feb 2012- 15^th Feb 2013

Plans 2013

 

New ride leaders

• Gary Yeates
• Gary Palmer
• Nigel Gregson
• Kristian Price
• Andrew Weaver
• Philip Allum
• Tim Norris

New Web Coordinators

• Jason Rodger
• Simon Oxlade

To continue with

• Local rides
• Urban rides
• Trail centre and natural rides
• Uplift days
• Weekend trips
• Foreign trips
• Camping trips

Trail plans: continue fixing

XC Race Team. Sponsored.

Lee Morgan.

Gravity Team. Sponsored.

James Scott.

 2012 AGM review.