Full report coming later. Photos for now. Bing map of Quantocks route.

The Erlestoke 12 was formerly known as Set2rise and was organised by SPAM biking. It offered 6 or 12 hour options for singles, pairs or teams of four. MBSwindon entered two teams of four in the 12 hour relay category. After the first lap we had one team in 8th place and the other in [...]

Because Ashton Court is not fully open due to trail improvements we’ve decided to do a ride at the Quantocks instead. The Quantocks offer a series of really fun natural descents down the various valleys. We’re meeting at 11am at the car park on top of the hill. Google map of location. This is going [...]

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I was at the Real Ale Wobble (photos and report) and had a flyer put under the windscreen wipers for this. Red Kite Bike Fest 2011 Sat 28th to Mon 30th May 2011 at Llanwrtyd Wells I’ve been told by the organisers that it’s a revamped version of the Red Kite Mountain Bike Bash the [...]

n 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 [...]

by Jodie West What a day! We booked good weather and it delivered for us!!!! Seven MBSwindon ladies all met at the Cwmcarn carpark. This was to be the first time at a trail centre for at least 4 of them. I think there were some initial nerves even though some didn’t like to admit [...]

The Western part of the ridgeway provides 43 miles of tracks and bridleways over rolling hills (Ridgeway website). Originally we were going to ride out and back from Overton but the pub down there let us down so we decided to use our reliable local, the Check Inn at Wroughton. The plan was to go [...]

By Jodie West 10.00 am Ready to ride! Getting there. Cwmcarn is one of the big name trail centres in Wales. It’s located a few miles North of Newport. There’s a 14km cross country route called the Twrch trail. The cross country route is steep and regarded as quite difficult in terms of climbing however [...]

The National Ridgeway is Britain’s oldest road. The Western half is open to cyclists, giving just over 43 miles of waymarked track and a few short bits of road. It’s not technical riding at all. We’re doing it for the hell of it; it’s going to be fun. The Plan We were originally starting from [...]