Maps Photo gallery This was a weekend trip to Dorset. We stayed with local rider Nikala. Saturday 29th Oct – Isle of Purbeck We met up at the Sandbanks Ferry for 10am. This chain ferry crosses the entrance of Poole harbour straight onto the Isle of Purbeck. It isn’t a real island, it’s part of […]
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This was the FFS ride (Family friendly social). A group of 8 riders set off from the Check Inn at 10am ish. The original plan was to ride around the Ridgeway for a bit and then make it back to the pub to eat at 2pm. Chris introduced some spec creep, so once we’d made
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We met at the Craven Arms pub in Brockhampton at 10am. (They don’t have a website. Contact is GL54 5XQ 01242 820410 see the good pub guide too). The sun was shining and temperatures were already high. James Scott was taking us on a tour of the best bits of Cleeve Hill. We’ve seen James
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This wasn’t really an MBSwindon event. I spent two days riding in one of my favourite areas with some friends. The terrain, views and beer were so good that I thought it would be worth sharing the routes and photos. I’ve done the Real Ale Wobble event since 2000 so I know where a lot
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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
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The sun was out but the temperature was still hovering around zero when six of us met up at Barbury Castle having completed our first challenge of getting up there in the cars (except Andrew who parked in Old Town and cycled up). After allowing plenty of time for anyone else struggling with leaving their
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Five of us started from Old Town in Swindon at 9am.This added 15km each way to the route. We met up with the rest of the group at Foxhill car park by 10:30am. It was a frosty day but we were prepared for the cold. We soon got going on the ride. It was a
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Return to three trails article Sunday 26th Sept 2010 – Gisburn I’d known about the volunteer built trails at Gisburn for a long time, via their facebook page. “The 8” is an 18km Red and Black grade trail in the Forest of Bowland. Google map of Gisburn Trails. Trail info. Another trail map. When I
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Return to three trails article Saturday 25th Sept 2010 – Hamsterley Hamsterley trail maps. Google map of routes. I started out by following the Red trail. This follows a wide path from the car park and not much happens for the first mile or so. After crossing the road it was a big climb up
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Return to three trails article. Friday 24th Sept 2010 – Kielder Kielder is heavily promoted on the Visit Northumberland Website as a premium mountain bike location. When I arrived at the castle car park I was a bit confused to find no reference to the Lonesome Pine trail. There was plenty of information about the skills
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