The Twrch trail at Cwmcarn is well known. We’re not riding that though. We’re going to go on an alternative xc route with some technical options, lead by local ride John Purchase. We’ll also be joined by local club Halfway Up MTB. John is promising to cover 3 peaks, Machen, Sirhowy and Cwmcarn.This is not for the unfit! …
The MBSwindon club annual general meeting and review. It’s being held a the Sun Inn near Coate Water in Swindon. There’s an optional chicken curry with rice/chips deal for £6. We’ll be eating once the AGM is finished. To book food then please contact chris @ mbswindon co uk. In 2011 the meeting took just under …
We made massive progress at the recent build days (trail patching Sat and Sun plus some drainage work 2 3). We want to meet up for a few hours and shift some material that’s ready to go in the triangle area…right where it says “stockpile” in the photo below. (This session is in place of the postponed …
First set of photos from the summer trip to the French Alps. We stayed with Ski and Summer Morzine who offer a club discount. Videos. We’re going back in 2013 – keep an eye on Facebook for more info. 2011 photos. The photos show some riding near Les Gets including a tour of the mountain, …
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We’d made a start on draining a large puddle on the OCD (obsessive compulsive drainage) session a week earlier. This was a 2 hour digging session on my own where I drained the remaining water out of the last remaining puddle. I started at 4pm and it was dark by 5pm so I used my …
Trail build report: Fri 4th Jan 2013 – east side drainage Read More »
An evening/night ride at The Croft Trail. 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 …
The SPAM winter challenge is a mountain bike enduro that’s held on MOD land near Erlestoke (google map). There’s a choice of 25,35 and 60km routes. According to SPAM the route isn’t overly technical and you can take it as fast or as slowly as you like. See the SPAM Winter Challenge website for more …
This was a bonus build session on the Saturday after Christmas. When I arrived at the special festive late start time of 11am then I found Phil Mayger, Phil Allum, Jez, Gary Palmer and Shaun Carolin standing in the rain raring to go. After the heavy rain then we found plenty of OCD (obsessive compulsive …
Trail build report: Sat 29th Dec 2012 – OCD work (start, mway, east side,triangle) Read More »
We made massive progress at the December build weekend (Saturday). We want to meet up for a few hours and shift a load of material to fix a section of trail that’s sunk. We’ve got rocks and chippings nearby so the job should only take a few hours. We’ll be meeting in the car park …
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 …
