This is another ride that I did over the Christmas holidays that I thought was worth adding as a route suggestion. This loop in the Black Mountains (near Abergavenney) starts and finishes next to a pub and takes in two really good descents. There was a lot of snow and ice on the day that […]
Ride report: Black mountains loop Read More »
The snow had finally melted and the ground was no longer frozen solid. In the morning Phil, Tony, Mike and myself (Tom) dug out the new line in the section before the triangle. Blue arrow 1 in the diagram below. The new route avoids a boggy area. The boggy area had been fixed back in
Trail build report: Tues 28th Dec 2010 Read More »
The original plan was to meet at the Woolstone hill car park. Ice on the road meant that cars were struggling to make it up the hill though. So we decided to start from the Royal Oak pub car park at Bishopstone instead. Rafe concocted a route up the ridgeway to Uffington castle and then
Ride report: Boxing day belly buster 2010 Read More »
By this time you’ll definitely be bored with Christmas and over eating, so this will be an ideal opportunity to go out and do something. By this time we hope to have almost all of the trail surfaced. We’ll probably be making a start on our new triangle loop (6). We meet in the car
Build day December 2010 #6 Read More »
By this time you’ll definitely be bored with Christmas and over eating, so this will be an ideal opportunity to go out and do something. By this time we hope to have almost all of the trail surfaced. We’ll probably be making a start on our new triangle loop (6). We meet in the car
Build day December 2010 #5 Read More »
Cancelled! The ride organiser and most people who were coming on the ride have man-flu.
Cancelled – Winter solstice Ridgeway night ride Read More »
We were at the trail on Saturday. The ground was frozen solid so there’s very little we can do. It was also cold and snowing. So we’ve cancelled this event.
Cancelled: Build day December 2010 #4 Read More »
We had originally planned to spend the day moving material so that we could surface some muddy sections. A lot of snow fell on Friday night and when we arrived on Saturday the ground was frozen solid. We decided to opt out of material moving and instead spent time doing a few odd jobs. We
Trail build report: Sat 18th Dec 2010 (snow) Read More »
We’ve got a campaign to surface and reinforce some existing sections to ensure that they survive the winter. We’ll be working on various sections that need filling in, plus maybe doing some work on our new triangle loop (6). We’ll have the power barrow so we won’t be wasting time pushing wheel barrows around. We
Build day December 2010 #3 Read More »
The unsurfaced sections of the trail were so bad last week that we’re probably going to do a virtual ride this week. i.e: skip the riding and go straight to the pub. If by any chance it has snowed on then we’ll probably be riding it. Meet in the car park for 7:30pm as normal
Friday night ride + trail build Read More »
