Archive for December, 2010

Croft Trail New Years Eve Boogie

Dec 31st 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Novice Friendly

An evening/night ride at Croft Trails. All welcome of any ability level – no one gets left behind on our group rides. Novice Friendly group starts a few minutes after the main group. This is a great chance to be given a guided tour of the trails if you’ve never been before, and a chance [...]

Trail build report: Tues 28th Dec 2010

Dec 28th 2010 Croft Diary

The snow had finally melted and the ground was no longer frozen solid. In the morning Phil, Tony, Mike and myself (Tom) dug out the new line in the section before the triangle. Blue arrow 1 in the diagram below. The new route avoids a boggy area. We were joined by Mr Anon and Andy [...]

Ride report: Boxing day belly buster 2010

Dec 28th 2010 Ride Report

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 [...]

Build day December 2010 #6

Dec 28th 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Trail Building

By this time you’ll definitely be bored with Christmas and over eating, so this will be an ideal opportunity to go out and do something. By this time we hope to have almost all of the trail surfaced. We’ll probably be making a start on our new triangle loop (6). We meet in the car [...]

Build day December 2010 #5

Dec 27th 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Trail Building

By this time you’ll definitely be bored with Christmas and over eating, so this will be an ideal opportunity to go out and do something. By this time we hope to have almost all of the trail surfaced. We’ll probably be making a start on our new triangle loop (6). We meet in the car [...]

Boxing day belly buster ride

Dec 26th 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event

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 [...]

Croft Trail Xmas Eve Mashup

Dec 24th 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Novice Friendly

An evening/night ride at Croft Trails. All welcome of any ability level – no one gets left behind on our group rides. Novice Friendly group starts a few minutes after the main group. This is a great chance to be given a guided tour of the trails if you’ve never been before, and a chance [...]

Hargroves Cycles deal of the fortnight 22nd Dec 2010

Dec 22nd 2010 Special Offer

Hope Pro3 SP-XC6 wheelset RRP: £385 MBSwindon member’s price: £308 Available in the Swindon branch of Hargroves cycles for MBSwindon club members until the end of 5th Jan 2011. List of previous special offers.

Cancelled – Winter solstice Ridgeway night ride

Dec 21st 2010 Local Event & MBSwindon Event

Cancelled! The ride organiser and most people who were coming on the ride have man-flu.

Cancelled: Build day December 2010 #4

Dec 19th 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Trail Building

We were at the trail on Saturday. The ground was frozen solid so there’s very little we can do. It was also cold and snowing. So we’ve cancelled this event.

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