Fetish Pronunciation: /ˈfɛtɪʃ/ an excessive and irrational devotion or commitment to a particular thing Seems a pretty appropriate name for a bike shop that hopes to cater for your two-wheeled obsession in any flavour: Offroad, Road and everything inbetween. Fetish Bike Company offers a new approach to cycling retail with premium clothing, nutrition and […]
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We’ve got a new club discount for MBSwindon club members (you can join online using Google Checkout. Epic Bleed Solutions provide cost-effective alternatives to manufacturers’ own hydraulic brake bleeding kits. They have a wide range of kits to suit the plethora of different hydraulic brake systems that are available. To get the discount on your
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The SPAM winter challenge is a mountain bike enduro that’s held on MOD land near Erlestoke. There’s a choice of 25,35 and 50km routes (16,22 and 31 miles respectively). According to SPAM the route isn’t overly technical and you can take it as fast or as slowly as you like. Bertie Maffoons bike shop will
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The 2011 MBSwindon Christmas party is being held on the Saturday before Christmas eve at the Check Inn in Wroughton. This is a great opportunity to use the special party photo again (look to the right). Price will be £25 per person for 3 courses plus coffee/tea/mince pies and menu is as follows: Starters Honey roast parsnip
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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
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A quick review of what we got up to last year: 15th Oct 2010: 60 tonnes delivered Dec 2010 trail build plans. 28th Dec 2010: new line before triangle. Sat 8th Jan 2011: motorway 2 berms and surfacing. Sun 9th Jan: largest turnout (16 people!) motorway 2 surfacing. Sat 22nd / Sun 23rd Jan: Surfacing
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This was a netball match against local team The Delta Reds. We arrived at the Dorcan Netball Dome fully expecting to be given a good thrashing (ooer). The Delta’s didn’t know about our best kept secret weapon though: he’s tall, he’s a bit bald, he lounges around near the net and once he has the
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After finishing off the East side on the previous day we decided to fix the section of trail on the South side of the pitch. This had originally been built in December 2008 and modified in September 2009. It had turned really muddy this year – a combination of the original surfaced line being too
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By this time we should have pretty much finished our new triangle section (bottom right in the map below). Build report from Sept 2011, build diary. We’re meeting at 10am in the car park. If you arrive after that then take a walk round the trail. Otherwise you can call us on 07010036444. Useful tools
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On the previous build day we’d surfaced about half of the trail section on the East side of the pitch (build report). Our plans for the day were to surface the remaining 120m. We’d had 20 tonnes of type 1 limestone chippings delivered on Friday morning. Things began at 9am when I arrived and Brandon
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