MBSwindon have been shortlisted for the “Most Innovative Club” category in the 2010 Wiltshire and Swindon Sports Awards! Since starting up in February 2010 we now have 60 signed up members and 379 on the Facebook group. It’s quickly become a fun club with a good social scene. Our motto of “get on with it” [...]
An 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. The first lap will [...]
The original plan was to go and cut a new line in area 4 on the map below. We’d discussed this a few months ago. Well, we spent half an hour looking at the route options and a decision was made to leave it as it was for now. We would then fix it by [...]
The nights will start drawing in soon, so we want to fit in a few more evening build sessions. This time we want to mark out and start digging out the improved line on the section before the pond. Area no4 in the map below. We’ll meet at 6:30pm in the car park. It stays [...]
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 [...]
Wyre Forest is located West of Kidderminster. It has a lot of really good natural bike trails on the steep sides of the valley. We first visited the area a month or so earlier on a Wyre Forest MTB Club ride. We liked it so much that we asked local rider Sarah Peters if she [...]
Wyre Forest is located West of Kidderminster. It has a lot of really good natural bike trails on the steep sides of the valley. Local knowledge is really useful in an area like this, so Sarah Peters from the Wyre Forest MTB Group is going to lead us on a ride taking in the best [...]
An 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. The first lap will [...]
We’ve done a lot of trail building in 2010. Most of this has been rebuilding work, with a significant redesign of the layout. This has been done to remove confusing junctions, make better use of any gradient and to make the trail flow better. Pretty much the first third of the trail is now less [...]
Some statistics from our recent trail building sessions. 340m built. 90m of old trail filled back in. 41 hours build time. 10 days from start to finish. 14 volunteers involved. 150 person hours. 8m of new trail per hour and just over 2m per person hour. Approx 25 tonnes of material dropped using a 250Kg [...]
