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Build day December 2010 #5

Dec 27th 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Trail Building

By this time you’ll definitely be bored with Christmas and over eating, so this will be an ideal opportunity to go out and do something. By this time we hope to have almost all of the trail surfaced. We’ll probably be making a start on our new triangle loop (6). We meet in the car [...]

Boxing day belly buster ride

Dec 26th 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event

This will be a ride over the ridgeway to the East of Swindon. We’ll be leaving the Woolstone hill car park at 10:30am, covering 15-20 miles over the ridgeway and reaching the Royal Oak pub at Bishopstone for 2:30pm where we’ve booked lunch. If you want lunch then please confirm via email to tom at [...]

Croft Trail Xmas Eve Mashup

Dec 24th 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Novice Friendly

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 [...]

Hargroves Cycles deal of the fortnight 22nd Dec 2010

Dec 22nd 2010 Special Offer

Hope Pro3 SP-XC6 wheelset RRP: £385 MBSwindon member’s price: £308 Available in the Swindon branch of Hargroves cycles for MBSwindon club members until the end of 5th Jan 2011. List of previous special offers.

Cancelled – Winter solstice Ridgeway night ride

Dec 21st 2010 Local Event & MBSwindon Event

Cancelled! The ride organiser and most people who were coming on the ride have man-flu.

Cancelled: Build day December 2010 #4

Dec 19th 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Trail Building

We were at the trail on Saturday. The ground was frozen solid so there’s very little we can do. It was also cold and snowing. So we’ve cancelled this event.

Trail build report: Sat 18th Dec 2010 (snow)

Dec 18th 2010 Croft Diary

We had originally planned to spend the day moving material so that we could surface some muddy sections. A lot of snow fell on Friday night and when we arrived on Saturday the ground was frozen solid. We decided to opt out of material moving and instead spent time doing a few odd jobs. We [...]

Build day December 2010 #3

Dec 18th 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Trail Building

We’ve got a campaign to surface and reinforce some existing sections to ensure that they survive the winter. We’ll be working on various sections  that need filling in, plus maybe doing some work on our new triangle loop (6). We’ll have the power barrow so we won’t be wasting time pushing wheel barrows around. We [...]

Croft Trail Evening Ride

Dec 17th 2010 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event & Novice Friendly

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 [...]

Friday night ride + trail build

Dec 16th 2010 Announcement

The unsurfaced sections of the trail were so bad last week that we’re probably going to do a virtual ride this week. i.e: skip the riding and go straight to the pub. If by any chance it has snowed on then we’ll probably be riding it. Meet in the car park for 7:30pm as normal [...]

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