Ashton Court, 50 Acre woods and Leigh woods are great riding areas near the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol. We did a club ride there in 2010 and the Bristol Oktoberfest was also held at Ashton Court. The trails in Ashton Court and Leigh woods are to be rebuilt by contractors using a lot of […]
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We’re running 12 training courses from April through to August including 2 women only sessions. These are open to anyone. More information here. This year we’re charging a small fee to discourage time wasters – this isn’t a commercial rate and the funds are going directly towards building the Croft Trail. All of our instructers
Training courses 2011 Read More »
The first club AGM* was held at the Check Inn on Sunday 27th February 2011. * annual general AGM meeting. At 7pm the committee table was ready but there was only one guest present. With the typical MBSwindon approach to start times it was 7:20 before we had all 20 people present. We had the
AGM and annual review Feb 2011 Read More »
The Good Mountain Biking Guide is being published on the 15th March 2011 and the Croft Trail is included along with several MBSwindon photographs. The book contains 640 pages and has 1000 route suggestions covering 400 natural areas and 100 trail centres in England and Wales. This gives around 20,000 km of riding! There are
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Previous ride report and information about Cwm Carn: July 2010 We met at 10:00am in the Cwm Carn car park. By 10:25 we had advanced along the car park picking up late arrivals and were ready to go. By this time we had a group of about 14 riders. We picked up a few more
Ride report (+video): Cwm Carn 27th Feb 2011 Read More »
We’re going to ride Cwm Carn cross country trail. This is one of the closest trail centres. It’s quite heavy going too. Ride reports and information about Cwm Carn: July 2010, April 2010, January 2011. We’re meeting at 10am at the Cwmcarn car park. The trail is free to use. Warning: the cafe is certified
Club ride: Cwmcarn XC (Twrch trail) Read More »
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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Saturday 19th Feb 2011 After a week of heavy rain and with many key members away on the Saturday the viability of the weekend had been questioned. In the end Phil booked the power barrow and compactor from Brandon hire and decided that the section had to be finished by the end of the weekend.
Trail build report: Sat 19th & Sun 20th Feb 2011 Read More »
We’ll be surfacing remaining muddy sections of trail (yellow and blue lines in map above). We might also being doing some work cutting out new trail. We’ll have the power barrow on site so we won’t be wasting effort pushing barrows around (unless you want to). We meet in the car park at 10am. If
Build day February #4 Read More »
We’ll be surfacing remaining muddy sections of trail (yellow and blue lines in map above). We might also being doing some work cutting out new trail. We’ll have the power barrow on site so we won’t be wasting effort pushing barrows around (unless you want to). We meet in the car park at 10am. If
Build day February #3 Read More »
