Words: Gary Palmer Pics: Kaye Mortimer Ryan Ten brave souls gathered outside the scout hut on the old London Road just outside Wooten under edge, I get a text from Paul & Richard saying he’s stuck on the M5, after much thought I decide to say sod em they can catch us up (Paul’s idea […]
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Words: Tom Scott On Sunday 15 March, the crème de la crème of MBS met up at Steven Dunn’s house for a ride in the South Chilterns; Tom Scott, Graham Burgess, Gary Lee, Paul Allum, Martin Lowe, Tim Benge, Stew & Steven Dunn. We were all forewarned; this was going to be a ‘proper’ MTB
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Words and Photos by Gary Palmer The weather in the week previous to this ride had been – to say the least – a tad wet, so i knew the ride’s title was spot on. However, the sun was shining beautifully on the day. The car park was packed. What are those dog walkers like
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Words by Tom Scott It was with trepidation that I approached this ride. For one thing, I had badly sprained my wrist the weekend before on the recce. I was also kind of dreading having too many people turn up, as I had 16 yesses and 29 maybes on the Facebook event. However, as we
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Words by Tom Scott You know those rides that link single track (ST) and roads? Well this was not one of those – it turned into a full-on XC epic. The luxury of a rest on black tarmac was rare, and in its longest section was a 20% climb. Arriving at Steven Dunn’s house it
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Words and photos by Phil Allum After the appalling weather for my last MB Swindon ride, the big chap upstairs must have felt a bit guilty, and served up some classic winter conditions for the day: beautiful blue sky and rock hard frosty ground, with the promise of highs of 6’c for the day. Perfect.
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Chris Hopkinson writes: At 6.15 on Saturday morning I was lying in bed staring at the ceiling. I’d hardly slept a wink due to a trapped nerve in my shoulder giving me some grief and it now seemed like the wife had very kindly shared her cold with me. I’d rebuilt the full suss
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Lovely Richard Ford led the Clatford Clatter ride – here’s what he thought of it: “Lots of rain the week before and the threat of more rain on the day meant that I was not expecting a great turn out. I was still slightly disappointed that only four other riders turned up at West Woods
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Words by Phil Allum: The weather forecast was not great. But one of the greatest things about our sport is the fact that we are not dependant on certain weather conditions. Cricket? You’ll need a dry day. Flying? Then the wind is critical. If you like surfing, then swell is essential. With mountain biking, weather
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Words by Darren Pettit. My first ever MB Swindon ride was the Big Bang Theory Ride on 5th November 2014. I met the MTB crowd at Foxhill which is on The Ridgeway. The ride started uphill, then more uphill as we headed out towards Membury across grassy mud with one interesting sloping bank to negotiate with tree roots
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