Read Chris’s article about bike packing. We’ll start at The Croft Trail and do a lap as per the usual Friday night ride. Then we’ll peel off and head out to our bivvy spot for the night and set up camp. After a night under the stars and an early morning brew we’ll head back to […]
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By Phil Allum One of the many great benefits of being a member of MBSwindon is the sharing of knowledge, especially local route knowledge. This is the route I do if I’m short on time and have been round the Croft trail too many times already that week. Riding to Lydiard Park on the morning of
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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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By MBTom. The Trans Cambrian Way is a well known walking and cycling route that goes East-West from the English border at Knighton to the coast near Machynlleth. The total distance of around 110 miles has been done in 11 hours 44 minutes! There’s more info on the IMBA website including their 3 day outline maps.
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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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Nigel Gregson will be leading this Good Friday ride from Foxhill car park along the ridgeway and across the Lambourn Downs. In total the ride will be some 22 miles. The ride will be at a fairly relaxed pace and an ideal “next step” for people that have done some of our Novice Friendly rides, but
Good Friday Ridgeway Ride (Relaxed Pace) Read More »
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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Steve from Hargroves Cycles is taking us on this interesting route in uncharted territory on Walbury hill near Hungergford. He’s promising around 21 miles and 790m of ascent. Steve says: “entirely off road, the descents are generally very fast, there is one technical one with loose off camber chalky corners. The climbs are quite stiff
Club ride: Walbury hill (near Hungerford) Read More »
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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Kristian lead a ride from Barbury Castle, and here’s what he had to say about it: As we turned into the Barbury Castle car park we were met with a real pea-souper of a fog, just being able to see everyone setting up their bikes, and carrying out the usual faffing associated with our rides. It
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