This was a bonus build session on the Saturday after Christmas. When I arrived at the special festive late start time of 11am then I found Phil Mayger, Phil Allum, Jez, Gary Palmer and Shaun Carolin standing in the rain raring to go. After the heavy rain then we found plenty of OCD (obsessive compulsive […]
Trail build report: Sat 29th Dec 2012 – OCD work (start, mway, east side,triangle) Read More »
We made massive progress at the December build weekend (Saturday). We want to meet up for a few hours and shift a load of material to fix a section of trail that’s sunk. We’ve got rocks and chippings nearby so the job should only take a few hours. We’ll be meeting in the car park
Bonus trail build session (half day). Read More »
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
Croft Trail evening ride Read More »
The 2012 Christmas party has weld at the Goddard Arms in Swindon old town. See photos from the 2010 party. The 2011 party was held at the Check Inn but no photos available.
Christmas party 2012 Photos Read More »
UPDATE2: We’re doing the regular loop. Ground conditions are not good. UPDATE – We’re going to go on an alternative xc route with some technical options, lead by local ride John Purchase. Still meeting in the Cwm Carn car park. Special late start of 11am. Pre-Christmas club ride at Cwm Carn, just over the
Club ride: Cwm Carn Read More »
Just as Christmas comes around every year so does our party and the opportunity to use the special photograph (on the right). The 2012 MBSwindon Christmas party is being held at 8pm on Saturday the 22nd December at the Goddard Arms in Old Town. Priced £25.95 for a 5 course menu (see menu options below).
MBSwindon Christmas party 2012 Read More »
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
Croft Trail evening ride Read More »
We’d made good progress on the previous day – more than half the 20 tonne pile of material had been shifted. Our plans for this day were to patch up more trail on the north side of the pitch and to move material to the triangle area using Rafe and his Land Rover. Things started at
Trail build report: Sun 16th Dec 2012 – trail patching Piper’s and North side Read More »
The date of this event has been changed from the 9th to the 16th of Dec. This will be the last build weekend of 2012. We’ll be having a rest in early 2013 whilst we wait for tree felling work to be completed. So please make every effort to come along on one of the
Final trail build day 2012 (date changed) Read More »
After a week of frosty mornings then we expected to turn up to find the ground frozen solid. As luck would have it the weather turned warmer on Friday and we were promised a bit of rain. Saturday morning dawned with no rain in sight, so we were feeling lucky again. Our plans for the
Trail build report: Sat 15th Dec 2012 – trail patching South side Read More »
