Sharon is leading this ride over The Ridgeway starting at the Foxhill car park near Swindon. Google map of start location. Meet at 10am for a 10:15am start. See the ladies ride report from June at Ashton Court. Facebook event page.
Ladies ride: Ridgeway from Foxhill Read More »
Six month’s of trail building compressed in a video. This was during a time when a lot of trail was surfaced with limestone chippings in order to make it all weather. Direct link
Trail build video 2010-2011 Read More »
A compilation of stray video and images from 2010.
Video: 2010 round up Read More »
Stats at end of January 2011. Figures in brackets are for the last count in October 2010. In January 2010 we had 4,203 visits and 19,490 page views on this site. That’s around 135 visitors and 630 page views per day. The facebook group has 428 (411) members. After a long time of level pegging
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Afan is a great trail centre near Port Talbot in South Wales – just over 2hrs drive from Swindon… but well worth it. Last time we were there we did White’s Level followed by a shortened version of The Skyline. See the ride report. This time we’re planning on doing the WW2 trail. That’s the
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Afan and Cwm Carn are well known trail centres in south Wales. I called in at both during the Christmas holiday in 2010. The Afan trip was organised by DIRT club (Facebook group, website) Ride reports and information about Afan: White’s Level and Skyline May 2010 Ride report and information about Cwm Carn: July 2010,
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This is another ride that I did over the Christmas holidays that I thought was worth adding as a route suggestion. This loop in the Black Mountains (near Abergavenney) starts and finishes next to a pub and takes in two really good descents. There was a lot of snow and ice on the day that
Ride report: Black mountains loop 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
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The snow had finally melted and the ground was no longer frozen solid. In the morning Phil, Tony, Mike and myself (Tom) dug out the new line in the section before the triangle. Blue arrow 1 in the diagram below. The new route avoids a boggy area. The boggy area had been fixed back in
Trail build report: Tues 28th Dec 2010 Read More »
The original plan was to meet at the Woolstone hill car park. Ice on the road meant that cars were struggling to make it up the hill though. So we decided to start from the Royal Oak pub car park at Bishopstone instead. Rafe concocted a route up the ridgeway to Uffington castle and then
Ride report: Boxing day belly buster 2010 Read More »
