A fun ride on the downs lead by one of our qualified mountain bike instructors, Rafe, and intended specifically for novice riders or those who want to build their confidence. Any other riders are welcome to come too, but the pace will be set for the new riders – no-one will get left behind. Meet […]
Despite heavy rain there were 16 riders present in the National Trust car park at Avebury for the 10am start. Chris took the group on a 15 mile route that took in the Wansdyke, Morgan’s hill and the Cherhill monument. The ride finished with a trip to the Red Lion pub in Avebury. Bing map
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A fun ride on the downs lead by one of our qualified mountain bike instructors, Rafe, and intended specifically for novice riders or those who want to build their confidence. Any other riders are welcome to come too, but the pace will be set for the new riders – no-one will get left behind. Meet
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
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This will be a ride over the ridgeway to the East of Swindon. We’ll be leaving the Woolstone hill car park at 10:30am, covering 15-20 miles over the ridgeway and reaching the Royal Oak pub at Bishopstone for 2:30pm where we’ve booked lunch. If you want lunch then please confirm via email to tom at
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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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This will be lead by one of our qualified mountain bike instructors, Rafe, and is intended specifically for novice riders or those who want to build their confidence. Any other riders are welcome to come too, but the pace will be set for the new riders. Meet at the Barbury Castle car park for a
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
Ride report: Ridgeway to Wantage (cold) 28th Nov 2010 Read More »
A ride over The Ridgeway to near Wantage being led by Rafe. There are two distances/start locations: 25 mile route from Foxhill (Google map marker – look for a car showing the MBSwindon banner), 10am start. Cycling over to meet… 15 mile route from White Horse Hill (Google map marker), starting when the long route
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An event organised by the DiRT cycling club (Facebook group). All things biking day out. Will base ourselves around the main biking centre but will include multiple group rides. Options will include a road loop, leisure loop, xc loop, short trail loop, and some DH runs. May even book some slots at Go Ape if
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