This was a weekend trip with Mudtrek – the bunkbarn ski chalet for mountain bikers (club discount). Some of the party arrived at Friday lunch time and did a lap of the Gorlech Trail at Brechfa (see our trail guide). By Friday evening we had ten people present. Nicky was still out on a night [...]
By Sarah Selwood “Waiting for Sarah ….” The sun was shining, the trails were dry and Phil Mayger, Club Chairman was joining us as an honorary lady! The ride was led by myself, Sarah Selwood, with Sharon Bassindale, newly appointed Ladies Officer, helping me along on my maiden voyage; and help I certainly needed! We [...]
By Kristian Price 17 riders met at the Mouldon Hills Country Park car park just off Thamesdown Drive on a cold but clear Sunday morning to ride out along Sustrans National Cycle Network Route 45 from Swindon to the Cotswold Water Park via Cricklade. (google map of start location.) This ride uses some quiet rural [...]
By Robin Steward. Since planning this ride I’d had concerns that it would be nothing but a mud bath with driving wind and rain making it a difficult slog. Well, I needn’t have worried: the best kind of winter had finally arrived with crisp snow and a sunny blue sky. Despite the mercury being entrenched [...]
Useful map of of the Bristol trails (Ashton Court Nova trail and Leigh Woods “Yer Tiz” trail). See previous ride reports: Jan 2012, Oct 2011 (with video), Oct 2010 plus race reports Oktoberfest 2011, Bikefest 2011, Oktoberfest 2010. Route map: OS | Google| Mapmyride | GPX. By Chris Hopkinson Ever since the trails around Ashton [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
Our first proper ride of 2012 and what a great turnout! There were over 20 of us, some very regular attendees, some less so. There were also a good number of new faces seeing what we’re about. Great to see all of them. After the usual banter and getting ready (including waiting for Andrew W [...]
