By Anthony La Porte Bright sunshine made for a pleasant start to the morning for thirteen of us as we set out on NCR 45 through the Park towards the Downs. I had been a bit worried that the curly wurly bridge across the M4 would be closed meaning we’d have to head out through [...]

The Ashton Court trails were rebuilt in 2011 and there’s a whole new trail in nearby Leigh Woods that opened in late December (trail plans plus Bristol Trails Group website). We’ll be visiting all of the trails plus maybe some old favourites in 50 Acre wood. See ride reports from Dec 2011, Oct 2011 (inc [...]

Anthony La Porte is leading this novice friendly ride from Coate Water park. The route is going to start by using the Sustrans national cycle route (NCR) 45 to go South towards the Malborough downs. Several length options will be possible with about 10 miles being the shortest option.

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 [...]

The MBSwindon club are planning, marking and marshalling the route for this year’s Prospect Hospice big ride event. It’s happening on Sunday 22nd April 2012 starting from the Croft Trail (opposite the Nationwide Building society in Swindon). We’re looking for volunteers to help mark the route, marshal the event and sweep the route at the [...]

For yet another ladies day, the weather proved glorious for us (Whoop whoop! and thankyou weather gods!). See these great photos from the November ride. Nice turn out at the Croft Trail for the first one of the year (Sarah, Sarah, Natasha, Kat, Hana, Lorna  plus Jen and Jodie who were not riding for obvious [...]

These photos of the MBSwindon ladies only ride were taken by Jo Page. The event was on 20th November and used the Verderer’s trail in the Forest of Dean. Fair play to Jo: these were taken with a Fuji J10, a super-compact. I owned one myself before moving over the Canon S90. The majority of [...]

Don’t miss the Prospect Big Ride 2012 with MBSwindon –> Read a more detailed race report at Cyclist No1. The Brechfa Frostbite 2012 was organised by Bike Brechfa to support the Welsh Air Ambulance. The event took the format of three timed special stages joined by untimed linking routes. This was a good concept – [...]

  Sharon Bassindale will be leading the first MB Swindon Ladies ride of the new year at Croft Trail, which will take place from 13:30 onwards. As usual the meeting place is in the right hand car park. Our ladies days at Croft are very relaxed and fun, and are suitable for all ages and [...]

This is a 40km enduro that uses parts of the Brechfa trails plus some proper cross country. For more information about Brechfa then see our ride reports from April 2011 and December 2010 plus our Brechfa trail guide. We’re also doing a trip with Mudtrek in February 2012. Facebook event page.