Note that the start time has been moved to 1pm. We’ve been working on the new Red section for a few weeks now. It’s starting to come together: The berms are taking shape. We’ve moved a fair bit of the woodwork into position. The bridges are coming on too. Our aims this weekend are to [...]

I was up early and it was a bright and sunny early spring morning, which is always a bonus. Rafe and myself spent 2 hours moving rocks from an address in  Wootton Bassett. This was another Freecycle (or Freegle) find. We now have about 80 decent rocks on the site that cost us nothing except [...]

Free Training MBSwindon club are running a series of FREE beginner training courses this summer. Provided in conjunction with the CTC and led by a qualified mountain bike instructor, the course will teach you how to discover, ride and enjoy off-road routes that’ll take you through some stunning local countryside. Whether you’re a total novice [...]

UPDATE ON TIME: It originally said 11am, but we’re aiming for a 10am meet. We’re going to take a look at this local trail. It’s been built by a farmer and uses the fields and some bits of woodland. Trail Map: We’re going to meet at 11am at the trail start. Google map. Spirthill facebook [...]

The new start loop will be complete by the end of March. This means that we can turn our attention to the far more interesting new Red section in April. There’s loads of things planned for this area: big bermed switchbacks down the hill boardwalk sections moved from the old route rock features big bridge [...]

I spent 4 hours on Friday afternoon moving material for the new berms. The sun was shining and spring had clearly begun. It was light until 7:30pm. Saturday was also a warm and sunny day. We noticed that some of the trees had just started to turn green and there was new grass growing. We [...]

Here’s the current maps. RED ROUTE BLUE ROUTE Link to Flickr images.

See our photos, videos and maps from 2011! Six of us met up at 10am. Swinley Forest is near Bracknell which is about an hour away from Swindon. Alan took us on a guided tour of the various man made trails in the area. Conditions were a bit boggy. The surfaced sections were fine, and [...]

This is a MBSwindon club ride. Alan is going to lead a guided tour round Swinley Forest. He knows where all the good stuff is. In his words “lots of trails, mini DH’s jumps and stuff”. We’re going to meet at the Swinley car park for 10am – we normally aim to meet in the [...]

We’ve been busy down at the trail recently. The new start route was opened a few weeks ago, but there were still a few jobs left to do. We bypassed the pointless loop on the old Blue route. The gravel has been dug out of this part and it’s been filled back in with mud. [...]