Introduction to Mountain Biking (Training Course)
Introduction to Mountain Biking training course. Please visit the training page for more information and to book a place.
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June 2011
Croft Trail evening ride
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
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Novice friendly rides summer 2011
As well as our regular novice-friendly Friday night trail rides at the Croft Trail and the training courses we’ve got a series of novice-friendly rides: Sunday 12th June – Coate Water Sunday 24th July – Ridgeway from Barbury Saturday 13th August – Spirthill trail Sunday 4th September – Castle Combe All events are listed on
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News June 2011
Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. MB Swindon June News Club Events Non-members are very welcome to come along to an event or two before deciding to join the club, “try before you buy” as it were. Come along and find out how friendly and welcoming we are at any one of
Events for next few months….(June 2011)
Quick update on some rides that we’re working on: Malverns, Long Myndd, miow miow (Middle of Wales, Middle of Week), Castle Combe, Purbeck and North Wales (Aug bank holiday). Add those to the upcoming Bisley, Clee Hill, Cleeve Hill, Wyre Forest, Forest of Dean, Lake District, Spirthill, Solstice Downs ride and the Wansdyke Epic. Relay
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Sweeping report: Castles MacMillan ride 2011
MBSwindon were supporting this charity event by sweeping the route (removing signs and making sure that no one was left behind).
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Race report: Bristol Bikefest 2011
See the race report from Oktoberfest 2010. MBSwindon had two teams of four and one pair taking part in the Bristol Bikefest 2011. Both teams got off to a good start with lap times below 32 minutes including the Les Mans start. The fast team did as well as 21st (out of approximately 90 teams)
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Ride report: training session with Malvern Cycle Sport
Malvern Cycle Sport are a club who cover all aspects of on and off road cycling. They are British Cycling affiliated, as are MBSwindon. I went along to find out more about their core mountain biking skills training. The club were running three sessions: one for children, one for adults and one as women-only. The
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Castles Bike Ride 2011 (Macmillan)
Not a mbswindon club event, but a must-do for all local mountain bikers and for a worthy cause, Macmillan Cancer Support. Ride report from 2010 Castles event. See their website for more information: http://www.castlesbikeride.co.uk/ This year MBSwindon have been asked to ride the route after the main event to make sure that there are no
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Bristol Bikefest 2011 (relay race).
In 2010 the Kona / Vito Sport sponsored Bristol Bikefest was a 12 hour relay race on the Saturday and a 6 hour version on the Sunday. The event is held in the Ashton Court estate near the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol and uses a route that’s approximately 6 miles long. We’ll be entering
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