Greenham Common Long Ride Cancelled
Sorry, but we’ve had to cancel this ride. The Novice Friendly ride round Greenham Common is still going ahead.
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June 2013
Greenham Common, a bunker & the MB Swindon Web Server
This is a route that was published in one of the mountain bike magazines and takes in some cheeky little single track in the woods around Greenham Common. Really good fun in quite a short distance. We also go right past the ex-US Military bunker in which the MB Swindon web server is hosted. Note
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Race report: Thetford Enduro
This was a low key team event – just Aaron from Cotswold Veldrijden and myself, together known as “the odd pair”. Out for a 10 hour pair at the Thetford Enduro in Thetford forest organised by Thetford MTB Racing (this event was near Thetford). Officially called the Reval Outdoor Summer Enduro. Did anyone make it to
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Gary’s Great Descents
Gary Palmer is leading a 40km long ride around Dursley and the Stroud valleys that incorporates some spectacular views, fair climbs and great descents. 40km long, 927m climbing 885m descending The ride is expected to take around 5 hours to complete, with a lunch stop to be taken at the New Inn, Waterly Bottom. Meeting
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Croft Trail evening social/ride
An evening/night ride at The Croft Trail. 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
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Red Kite Elan Valley MTB Challenge
The Red Kite Events Elan Valley Challenge offered several on and off road routes plus a running event. I’d already been to the Devil’s MTB in April 2013. I had intended to the do the monster 130km off-road route (85miles) and had spent a week resting and psyching myself up for it. I reckoned that 10
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Bike week barbecue photos
MBSwindon organised a barbecue and social evening at The Croft Trail. There were a few laps of the trail completed and a lot of eating. The weather was very kind to us.
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Elan Valley MTB Challenge
The event will start from Rhayader (LD6 5HP). There will be 30k, 50k and 75k options. More Elan valley photos here. More information on the Red Kite Events website. See some rides that we did with Red Kite events: Crychan Forest Dec 2011, MIOWEOW 2011.
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Ladies Ride on the local trails
Local Ladies Only ride, starting/ending at The Three Trees Cafe. Map of Three Trees cafe is here. Facebook event page.
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Wyre Forest (possibly Kinver + camping too)
We’ve been to the Wyre forest a few times and it’s one our favourite locations for natural singletrack and steep descents. See the ride reports from July 2011, April 2011 and August 2010. The Sunday ride is definitely happening…a provisional plan is to stay at the Hopleys Camp Site on the edge of Bewdley on Friday night, ride
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