Our previous Wyre Forest trip was voted as one of the top three events from our 2010 ride calendar. The reason for this is that the Forest offers a lot of natural single track, several steep descents, rocks, drop offs, rooty sections, narrow paths along steep hill sides and swoopy bits. Once again we were […]
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Ridgeway ride Wednesday 20th April 2011 This was one of our unofficial rides. Everyone is free to post these on the facebook group or forum if they fancy doing a ride. We met for a 6:15pm start from the car park behind John Lewis. Pete took us on a 20 mile route that took back
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This was a club weekend at Brechfa in Wales (Brechfa trail guide). We stayed at the Gilfach Wen bunk barn. See our ride report from December 2010. Friday 1st April Several people took the day off and opted to do the Gorlech red trail (18km 500m climb). The whole group met at the Plough Inn
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Maps: OS, GPX The clocks had just gone forwards which mean that this was the first ride of Spring. We were joined by local rider Mark Acres who lead us on a hilly route round the Cotswold edge near Wotton Under Edge. This was a varied route that included bits of road, woodland tracks, narrow
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We met with our usual strict time keeping at the market car park in Wallingford. Once we got going we had 16 riders and we were eager to see what Mike had in store for us. After an easy start along the road out of town we pulled onto the ridgeway path. After a bit
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Jodie West – MBSwindon Women’s Officer What a fab morning! Once again the sun came out to play and the trail was running really well. At least 10 ladies came to join us – of which 3 of them were new faces. Cakes were a plenty for our little breaks !!! and once again the
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This was a novice friendly ride. Five of us rode to Barbury castle from Swindon. We arrived at 10:15am when the last car had just arrived. We had a good turnout with 21 riders. The morning had started out bitterly cold but as the sun came out then there was a definite feeling of spring
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Previous ride report and information about Cwm Carn: July 2010 We met at 10:00am in the Cwm Carn car park. By 10:25 we had advanced along the car park picking up late arrivals and were ready to go. By this time we had a group of about 14 riders. We picked up a few more
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Despite heavy rain there were 16 riders present in the National Trust car park at Avebury for the 10am start. Chris took the group on a 15 mile route that took in the Wansdyke, Morgan’s hill and the Cherhill monument. The ride finished with a trip to the Red Lion pub in Avebury. Bing map
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Ride reports from Forest of Dean (include other trails and rides): September 2010 (novice friendly), November 2010. We met at 10am (+/-15 minutes) in the Pedalabikeway car park. Despite the cold day we had 17 riders. We did the first half of the FODCA trail and then branched out onto the 10 mile enduro route.
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