Meeting at 6:30pm in the car park. We’re keen to carry on with the progress in the new triangle section. Trail build evenings allow for an hour or two of work and a lot usually gets done in that time. We’ve got tools, but it would be useful if you can bring any more spades, […]
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Sleepless in the Saddle is another of the big MTB race events. Others include Mountain Mayhem, 2412 and Bristol Bikefest. MBSwindon had an official team in the twenty four hour team race. There were also several other teams with club members in them. The route was just over 8 miles of mainly singletrack round the
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This is a bit of a last minute addition to the calendar but I fancy riding one of my favourite routes from Barbury Castle this Saturday. Route will be approx 25km at a novice friendly pace but enough interesting bits to keep non-novices interested as well. Meet at Barbury Castle car park to start riding
Ridgeway ride (novice & non-novice friendly) Read More »
Sleepless in the saddle is a 24 hour team relay race held at Catton Park in Staffordshire. MBSwindon will entering teams for this event. If you would like to take part then email phil at mbswindon dot co dot uk. You can discuss race events in our forum here.
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An evening/night ride at Croft Trails. All welcome of any ability level – no one gets left behind on our group rides. Novice Friendly group starts a few minutes after the main group. This is a great chance to be given a guided tour of the trails if you’ve never been before, and a chance
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Buy one get one half price offer on Specialized tyres! This offer is available in the Swindon branch of Hargroves for MBSwindon club members until the end of August 2011. List of previous special offers. The Hargroves sale starts on 20th August, plus there’s a club evening on 20th October.
Hargroves Cycles deal of the month for August 2011 Read More »
This was another last minute build evening. Phil and myself (Tom) were joined by Chris and Steve. We made some more progress digging out the new line in the triangle section. I had ridden the whole section on the previous Friday evening ride. I’d found three corners that were too tight, so we adjusted the
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We met at the Craven Arms pub in Brockhampton at 10am. (They don’t have a website. Contact is GL54 5XQ 01242 820410 see the good pub guide too). The sun was shining and temperatures were already high. James Scott was taking us on a tour of the best bits of Cleeve Hill. We’ve seen James
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Cheltenham local James Scott is leading us on a Cotswold tour that takes in some great parts of the Cotswold scarp near Cheltenham including Cleeve hill. Using a mixture of bridleways, singletrack and some short sections of road this will be a proper classic cross country ride. There’s some great pubs in the area too.
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An evening/night ride at Croft Trails. All welcome of any ability level – no one gets left behind on our group rides. Novice Friendly group starts a few minutes after the main group. This is a great chance to be given a guided tour of the trails if you’ve never been before, and a chance
Croft Trail evening ride Read More »
