This is a bit of a last minute addition to the calendar but I fancy riding one of my favourite routes from Barbury Castle this Saturday. Route will be approx 25km at a novice friendly pace but enough interesting bits to keep non-novices interested as well. Meet at Barbury Castle car park to start riding […]
Ridgeway ride (novice & non-novice friendly) Read More »
Chris has invented a long ride that takes in the White Horse trail, the Wansdyke, Morgans Hill, The Cherhill monument, the Marlborough downs and the ridgeway. It should come to around 35-40 miles. The event will start and finish* at the Check Inn in Wroughton near Swindon (Google map location). * this isn’t an out
Epic ridgeway + Wansdyke ride Read More »
MBSwindon were supporting this charity event by sweeping the route (removing signs and making sure that no one was left behind).
Sweeping report: Castles MacMillan ride 2011 Read More »
Not a mbswindon club event, but a must-do for all local mountain bikers and for a worthy cause, Macmillan Cancer Support. Ride report from 2010 Castles event. See their website for more information: http://www.castlesbikeride.co.uk/ This year MBSwindon have been asked to ride the route after the main event to make sure that there are no
Castles Bike Ride 2011 (Macmillan) Read More »
The Western part of the ridgeway provides 43 miles of tracks and bridleways over rolling hills (Ridgeway website). Originally we were going to ride out and back from Overton but the pub down there let us down so we decided to use our reliable local, the Check Inn at Wroughton. The plan was to go
Ride report: Ridgeway out and back weekend Read More »
Photos from one of our unofficial Wednesday evening rides.
Unofficial Wed night ride 11th May 2011 Read More »
This was another of our unofficial evening rides. We advertise these on our Facebook group or forum. Bing map of route.
Ride report: unoffical Wed night ride 27th April 2011 Read More »
Ridgeway ride Wednesday 20th April 2011 This was one of our unofficial rides. Everyone is free to post these on the facebook group or forum if they fancy doing a ride. We met for a 6:15pm start from the car park behind John Lewis. Pete took us on a 20 mile route that took back
Ride report: last minute Wed night ridgeway ride Read More »
A fun ride on the downs lead by one of our qualified mountain bike instructors, Rafe, and intended specifically for novice riders, those who want to build their confidence or anyone that wants to ride at a more moderate pace. Any other riders are welcome to come too, but the pace will be set for
This was a novice friendly ride. Five of us rode to Barbury castle from Swindon. We arrived at 10:15am when the last car had just arrived. We had a good turnout with 21 riders. The morning had started out bitterly cold but as the sun came out then there was a definite feeling of spring
Ride report: Ridgeway novice friendly 6th March 2011 Read More »
