We’re looking for a few volunteers for a short time to help give the trail a bit of a tidy before the Hargroves demo day. Things like: lopping branches reseating a few rocks tidying the car park a quick litter sweep Meet at 10am in the car park.
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MBSwindon are once again planning the route, marking, marshalling and sweeping for this charity event. If you would like to help then please visit the Facebook page for volunteers. The event is organised by the Prospect Hospice – entry is available via their website. See the 2013 photos and preview video. The event will start and finish at
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This was a low key trail tidy session. We started out by blocking a potential short cut on Piper’s hill with branches. The step jump then received a tune up. After that we removed some neck level wire from an old fence that was a bit close to the trail down near the triangle. We
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Writeup by Phil Allum The Forest of Dean is always one of our most attended rides. This is because there really is something for everyone there, see http://www.fodmtb.com/ for details of what’s there. See also our previous ride reports. So on a nice dry, mild Good Friday, a massive gaggle of MB Swindonites had gathered,
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On the Friday afternoon I rode the trail and the noted the location of any remaining potholes. After two years of pot hole filling I knew that our helpers were really looking forwards to a nice change and spending the day filling holes. Jez was particularly excited about this and kept texting me to ask
We’re going to use a stockpile of material from the February build day to fix a section of trail and we’re also going to remodel a section to give us a new jump. Facebook event page. There’s been great progress at the trail over the last few years. See the build diary for details.
We’re looking for a few volunteers for a short time to help give the trail a bit of a tidy before the demo day. Things like: lopping branches reseating a few rocks moving some wood tidying the car park a quick litter sweep (it was all done recently) See photos from last year. Meet at
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Sunday 28th April 2013. Long/Medium: Registration from 10am for 10:30am start. Short: Registration from 11am for 11:30am start. The event will start and finish at the Nationwide Building Society pavilion at the Croft Park in Swindon. Telephone entry available until 3pm on Fri 26th April via 01793 816154 ( Online Entry now closed). The Prospect Hospice Big
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An evening/night ride at The Croft Trail. 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
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We checked the Prospect Hospice Big Ride 2013 long route out on Saturday and found that it was rock hard and dry! Event info. Route maps.
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