After the success of the 2011 Hargroves demo day they are back with more bikes for you to try in 2012. “We are delighted that this is the second year that we will be holding the Hargroves Cycles MBSwindon Demo day on the 6th May 2012 at the Croft Trail. Last year a great day […]
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This was a short build session. The entrance to the alley section was resurfaced after being hammered by the recent Prospect Hospice ride. Jon Proudman was cycling past and stopped to help. The alley was surfaced in Oct 2010, exit mods on 5th Dec 2010 surfaced Jan 2011 and the final link in Dec 2011. A fence was built on Piper’s hill next
Trail build report…alley surfacing and some fence work 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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Ride on Sunday 15th April 2012 So, another glorious day for the MBSwindon ladies (well, until it snowed!) It was lovely to be joined by Jen (+1) +the hubby supervising), Jo, Natasha, Sarah, Bridget, new recruit Ann, Lorna, and honorary girl for the day, Richard (recovering from knee surgery). As planned, we congregated in the
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There’s less than a week to go now until the mountain bike test day on Sunday 6th May 2012 at the Croft Trail in Swindon. There will be over 45 new bike models to try out. Just turn up on the day with a passport and credit card in order to take a bike out.
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These are photos from the team marking out the route and from the event itself on Sunday 22nd April 2012. Route maps here. Photobucket photos of riders on the long route here. Full size photos also on Flickr. A group of 9 volunteers spent several hours on Saturday marking out the routes. Our luck was
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This is the list of demo bikes that will be available at the bike demo day with Hargroves Cycles in May 2012 (event info). Scott Scale 20 M/L Scale 29er M Spark 20 S/M/L/XL Genius M/L Spark 29er Pro L Stevens Glide SX S/M/L Fluent ES S/M/L Ridge M/L Colorado M/L Cube 18″ Fritzz 18″
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Club ride in the Quantocks. Bing map of Quantocks route.
Photos: The Quantocks May 2011 Read More »
The Erlestoke 12 was formerly known as Set2rise and was organised by SPAM biking. It offered 6 or 12 hour options for singles, pairs or teams of four. MBSwindon entered two teams of four in the 12 hour relay category. After the first lap we had one team in 8th place and the other in
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I was at the Real Ale Wobble (photos and report) and had a flyer put under the windscreen wipers for this. Red Kite Bike Fest 2011 Sat 28th to Mon 30th May 2011 at Llanwrtyd Wells I’ve been told by the organisers that it’s a revamped version of the Red Kite Mountain Bike Bash the
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