Archive for January, 2011

Ride report: Forest of Dean 30th Jan 2011

Jan 30th 2011 Ride Report & Uncategorized

Ride reports from Forest of Dean (include other trails and rides): September 2010 (novice friendly), November 2010. We met at 10am (+/-15 minutes) in the Pedalabikeway car park. Despite the cold day we had 17 riders. We did the first half of the FODCA trail and then branched out onto the 10 mile enduro route. [...]

Club ride: Forest of Dean

Jan 30th 2011 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event

Forest of Dean The Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire provides a really large area with a choice of mountain biking routes.  Tom will concoct a route that takes in some of the downhill sections, the FODCA trail, the 10 mile enduro route, natural features and some scenic cross country. Map of route from the last [...]

Croft Trail Evening Ride

Jan 28th 2011 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 [...]

Prize Draw – Win a £50 Post Office Gift Card

Jan 26th 2011 Announcement

MB Swindon and Post Office® have teamed up to give you the chance to win a £50 gift card - redeemable at loads of different stores, including Halfords, and you can spend it all at once, or over time, its completely up to you. To be in with a chance to win this fantastic prize, all you [...]

Weekend trips – book now

Jan 25th 2011 Announcement

We’ve got several weekend trips planned this year. Please take a look and help us by booking early. The first event in particular needs a few more confirmations to make booking the bunk barn viable. All of our weekend trips are sociable and new riders will be made very welcome. We’ll have a range of [...]

Trail build report: Sat 22nd and Sun 23rd Jan 2011

Jan 23rd 2011 Croft Diary

Saturday 22nd Jan 2011 Phil, Jez, Lee Morgan and Andy Matthews spent the day moving chippings from the car park the long distance to a section that we call the alley. This was a really muddy area in urgent need of surfacing. Sunday 23rd Jan 2011 Phil, Jez and myself (Tom) got started on moving [...]

Build day January 2011 #4

Jan 23rd 2011 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Trail Building

By this time we’ll be working on our new triangle section (no 6 in map above). We’ll have the power barrow on site, so we won’t be wasting effort pushing barrows around (unless you want to). We meet in the car park at 10am. If you arrive after that then take a walk round the [...]

Build day January 2011 #3

Jan 22nd 2011 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Trail Building

By this time we’ll be working on our new triangle section (no 6 in map above). We’ll have the power barrow on site, so we won’t be wasting effort pushing barrows around (unless you want to). We meet in the car park at 10am. If you arrive after that then take a walk round the [...]

Croft Trail Evening Ride

Jan 21st 2011 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 – till 3rd Feb 2011

Jan 20th 2011 Special Offer

Yeti Hardcore Lock-On BONUS Kit or ODI Troy Lee Lock on Grips Both RRP: £21.99 MBSwindon member’s price: £17.59 Available in the Swindon branch of Hargroves cycles for MBSwindon club members until the end of 3rd Feb 2011. List of previous special offers.

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