First set of photos from the summer trip to the French Alps. We stayed with Ski and Summer Morzine who offer a club discount. Videos. We’re going back in 2013 – keep an eye on Facebook for more info. 2011 photos. The photos show some riding near Les Gets including a tour of the mountain, […]
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The 2013 Prospect Hospice Big Bike Ride is being held on Sunday 28th April 2013. This event took place in 2011 and 2012, with a choice of off road routes over the Marlborough downs from Swindon. The 2012 ride had 186 riders, more than double the 82 who took part in 2011. You can keep up to date with this event and
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This was a last minute trip to Afan to check out the modified Wall trail and to visit the new skills park. See the photos from our last trip there when we did W2 (the Wall plus White’s level). The May 2010 report includes an Afan trail guide. We’re going back in February. Event link.
Ride report: Afan Whites Level – 6th Jan 2013 Read More »
This was a follow on from our initial drainage work and the nocturnal digging session the previous evening. At 1:30pm we had Phil Mayger, Jerome Crametz and myself (Tom) ready to dig a canal. We found Chris Hopkinson wandering around the trail and he joined us. We linked the ditch that I’d dug the previous evening with
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On the fifth of Jan, Nigel Gregson led a Novice Friendly ride from Barbury castle. Here’s his ride report: “This was my first outing on the bike of 2013 and was billed as a novice friendly ride, if it wasn’t before it was certainly going to be now after the over indulging at
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Nigel Gregson will be leading this 20 mile ride starting from Barbury Castle Car park. http://www.facebook.com/events/460227267357766/ Map of Start Point
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We’d made a start on draining a large puddle on the OCD (obsessive compulsive drainage) session a week earlier. This was a 2 hour digging session on my own where I drained the remaining water out of the last remaining puddle. I started at 4pm and it was dark by 5pm so I used my
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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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A new club discount courtesy of Mike Buss PT gym! Boardman Sports Therapy offer injury consultation as well as sports massage List price is £30 for injury consultation and £20 per sports massage (half hour) session. So you will save £7.50 and £5 respectively per session. See our full list of club discounts.
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The SPAM winter challenge is a mountain bike enduro that’s held on MOD land near Erlestoke (google map). There’s a choice of 25,35 and 60km routes. According to SPAM the route isn’t overly technical and you can take it as fast or as slowly as you like. See the SPAM Winter Challenge website for more
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