Please note: This course is free and you do not need to be a member of the mbswindon MTB club in order to participate, however places are limited to six riders per course date and must be reserved in advance. Whilst it might lack actual mountains, our local area still provides some great places to [...]
We made a massive amount of progress on the new section last weekend. We’re keen to keep up the momentum with a big push. We’ll be using the power barrow to shift gravel to surface the new section and finishing off any digging and adding features. We’ll be meeting in the car park at 10am. [...]
MBSwindon have had a few mentions recently. I found these Youtube videos last night. MBR Magazine August 2010 There’s a small article referring to the trail with, plus a picture of Rafe’s truncated thumb (circular saw incident). Swindon Advertiser We had a two page article in the local paper earlier in July. Website traffic is [...]
A evening/night ride at Croft Trails. All welcome of any ability level – no one gets left behind on our group rides. This is a great chance to be given a guided tour of the trails if you’ve never been before, and a chance to see the improvements if you have. Lights may be needed [...]
Wednesday 28th July 2010 We were so pleased with our progress on the previous weekend that we set ourselves the ambitious target of digging out and surfacing the first half by the end of the coming weekend. We spent Wednesday night digging out the second half of the undug first half. Whilst Anthony, Jenny, Lee [...]
We made a massive amount of progress on the new section last weekend. We’re keen to keep up the momentum with a big push. The plan for Wednesday and Thursday is to cut and dig out the start of the section ready for some serious surfacing on the weekend. Plan of section. We’ll meet at [...]
We made a massive amount of progress on the new section last weekend. We’re keen to keep up the momentum with a big push. The plan for Wednesday and Thursday is to cut and dig out the start of the section ready for some serious surfacing on the weekend. Plan of section. We’ll meet at [...]
Red Planet bikes are the nearest shop to the Croft Trail. They hold a ride every Tuesday night, starting from the shop. Google map of shop location. From their site: All you have to do is pitch up at your favorite bike shop between 6pm and 6.30pm every Tuesday night with your dancing shoes on [...]
After a bit of a rest during June and doing odd jobs in early July the time had finally come to get on with the next big job. This was rebuilding the section that follows on from the new start. This is the area that had the “rock garden” straight down the hill and then [...]
After a bit of a rest in June we’re now ready to get started on the new Red section. This is the area with the biggest hill on the trail and it should be really swoopy when finished. See here for the proposed layout. So far we’ve marked it out with wooden poles and cleared [...]
