Trail Riding Skills (Training Course)
Trail Riding Skills training course. Please visit the training page for more information and to book a place.
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June 2011
Introduction to Mountain Biking (Training Course)
Introduction to Mountain Biking training course, was ladies only but now open to all. Please visit the training page for more information and to book a place.
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Swindon Bike Week: “take a lap” at Croft Trail + BBQ
This is part of the Swindon Bike Week. Turn up at the trail any time between 7pm and 10pm to find out more about the trail the club bikes and riding We’ll have guided laps with trained instructors. There will be a barbeque too. This is novice Friendly! No experience needed. You don’t even need
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Passportes Du Soleil 2011 (Morzine, France)
The Passportes Du Soleil is a great event that takes place in the Portes Du Soleil ski region in the French Alps. Passportes Du Soleil 2011 website. The event is a mountain cross country ride that uses ski lifts to gain height. It is possible to do the whole loop in a day. There are
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Camping weekend: The Lake District
Pete and Kat are organising this trip to the Lake District. There’s great trail centres at Whinlatter and Grizedale plus there’s also a lot of classic cross country routes in the Lake District. Also worth a visit are Gisburn plus Lee Quarry. Fri 24th June – From Hawkshead village, up to Grizedale trails and back
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MB Swindon Cycling Shirts Now Available To Order
Ever since our events team got their club shirts from Hargroves we’ve been asked by lots of you if you can have your very own shirt. Thanks to theCycleJersey you now can! Priced at £35 each regardless of size, colour or style. See below for options and if you’re interested please email phil@mbswindon.co.uk stating style,
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Trail build evening
Meeting at 6:30pm in the car park. We’re keen to carry on with the progress in the new triangle section. Trail build evenings allow for an hour or two of work and a lot usually gets done in that time. We’ve got tools, but it would be useful if you can bring any more spades,
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Summer solstice evening ride
This will be a reasonably long local cross-country ride to make the most of the longest day. The planned route is 25 miles, with pub stop halfway round. Plenty of options if the group feels like making it a bit longer or shorter (depending on how long we spend in the pub!). Decent
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Build report: Sun 19th June 2011. Triangle and Piper’s hill
We had Tony on site with his motorvator ready for an early start. By 9:30am we were digging out the main route in the new triangle section. Whilst Tony and Phil raced off into the distance Sean, myself, Andy and Richard followed on behind digging out the mud. We built up several bumps and bermed
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Build report: Sat 18th June 2011
Rain was forecast and the skies obliged. Luckily our trail builders are a hardy (and some say stupid) bunch. Excitement was high as Jez delivered the first two 5m beams for the bridge into the triangle. This was installed with the help of Phil, Richard and Kristian. The triangle area is going to contain around
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