Archive for October, 2011

New club discount – Red Driving School

Oct 31st 2011 Announcement

MBSwindon club members receive a 10% discount on driving lessons with David Fletcher, the local Red Driving School instructor. Contact him on 07806 321841 for more information. Full list of club discounts.

Croft Trail evening ride

Oct 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 [...]

Club weekend: Corfe Castle & The Purbecks (Dorset)

Oct 28th 2011 Events & MBSwindon Event

Club irregular Nikala has come up with two classic rides for us in Dorset. On Saturday we’ll be taking the Sandbanks ferry from Bournemouth across to the Isle of Purbeck. See this Bikely map for a typical route. After some compulsary beer or cider drinking then we’ll probably have hurty heads on the Sunday so [...]

2 hour Karting race (DIRT CC grudge match)

Oct 27th 2011 Events & Novice Friendly

This event has been organised by DIRT CC mountain bike club. After being beaten by them at Oktoberfest 2010 then we’ve got a score to settle! See our facebook event to let us know that you’re coming and their facebook event for information. You can also book a place by emailing “tom” followed by “@ [...]

Trail build report: Sun 23rd Oct 2011

Oct 23rd 2011 Croft Diary

We’d already shifted 20 Tonnes of limestone chippings on the previous day (photos and info). We had another 10 Tonnes of chippings and a lot of trail waiting to be dumped on. Things got off to a bit of quiet start after Chris had delivered the power barrow. It was like the old days with [...]

October trail build day #2

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

We’ve been making really good progress in the triangle and we’ll be continuing with the new trail in there on this build day. See our recent build reports: May 14th May 15th June 18th June 19th July 16th July 19th We’re meeting at 10am in the car park. If you arrive after that then take [...]

Trail build report: Sat 22nd Oct 2011

Oct 22nd 2011 Croft Diary

On our previous build day we’d surfaced about 1/3rd of the new trail in the triangle area. We wanted to repeat that achievement so that we were over half way to completing the triangle. The power barrow and compactor were delivered by Brandon Hire at 9am. I was shortly joined by Jason, Richard,Phil (not Mayger) [...]

October trail build day #1

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

We’ve been making really good progress in the triangle and we’ll be continuing with the new trail in there on this build day. See our recent build reports: May 14th May 15th June 18th June 19th July 16th July 19th We’re meeting at 10am in the car park. If you arrive after that then take [...]

Croft Trail evening ride

Oct 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 [...]

Club night at Hargroves Cycles

Oct 20th 2011 Ride Report

This was an evening event at Hargroves Cycles in Swindon with a 15% discount on all items, a prize raffle plus free beer and food. Industry experts from Cube and Specialized, Bianchi, Lezyne, Scott and Fishers were on hand too. Various Wiltshire cycling clubs including Swindon Road Club, The Swindon Wheelers and Swindon Tri Club [...]

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