Cancelled: Trail build evening
Sorry, organisers can’t make it.
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2011
Photos: Bontrager Twentyfour12 (24 12) 2011
Maps | Photo gallery The Bontrager twentyfour12 (24 12) is a relay race using an 8 mile route round Newnham park near Plymouth. It’s sponsored by the component manufacturer Bontrager. The course is open from midday Saturday to midday Sunday, allowing a 24 hour race and two 12 hour races. We put in two teams
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Novice friendly ride – Ridgeway
Rafe (one of our qualified instructor/leaders) is leading this novice friendly ride over the downs from Barbury Castle. Meet at 10am in the car park on top of the hill. Google map of start location. Non-members are most welcome to come and join the fun before deciding to join the club, you don’t need to
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Croft Trail evening ride
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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Build evening report: Tue 19th July 2011
This was a bit of a last minute and low key build evening, but we still got loads done. Phil Mayger, Phil not Mayger and myself spent a few hours digging out mud from the main loop in the triangle. We’re all pretty pleased with how the new line looks. It’s a lot less twisty
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Trail build evening
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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Special offers July 2011
All the links below already offer discounts to MBSwindon club members. See our discounts list. Hargroves cycles in Swindon are offering a BOGOF (buy one get one free) on Specialized inner tubes. This is a special offer for MBSwindon club members. They’ve told us that they are going to be stocking Maxxis tyres which is
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Ride report: marshalling Prospect ride 2011
MBSwindon club organised the marshalls and sweepers for the 2011 Prospect Hospice ride (The Big Ride). This involved working with the route designers and the Prospect Hospice to ensure that the event went to plan. Earlier in the year we swept the 2011 MacMillan Castles Bike Ride. It was slightly brighter and warmer than the
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Build report: Sat 16th July 2011
The weather forecast had been correct: heavy rain was falling from a dark sky when we arrived at 9am on Saturday morning. Tony La Porte was there ready with his rotorvator plus Kristian, Phil and myself (Tom). The target for the day was to dig out more trail in the triangle area. Tony quickly got
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