2012 | Mountain Biking Swindon

Club ride: Cwmcarn off piste

Post author:Rafe
Post published:July 14, 2013
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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…

Annual General AGM Meeting (yearly)

Post author:Rafe
Post published:February 17, 2013
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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…

Bonus trail build session (half day).

Post author:Rafe
Post published:January 19, 2013
Post category:Events / Local Event / MBSwindon Event / Novice Friendly / Trail Building
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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…

Ride report: French Alps 2012 Morzine + Passportes pt1

Post author:Rafe
Post published:January 10, 2013
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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…

Trail build report: Fri 4th Jan 2013 – east side drainage

Post author:Rafe
Post published:January 4, 2013
Post category:Croft Diary
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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…

Croft Trail evening social/ride

Post author:Rafe
Post published:January 4, 2013
Post category:Events / Local Event / MBSwindon Event / Novice Friendly
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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…

SPAM winter challenge 2012

Post author:Rafe
Post published:December 30, 2012
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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…

Trail build report: Sat 29th Dec 2012 – OCD work (start, mway, east side,triangle)

Post author:Rafe
Post published:December 29, 2012
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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,…

Bonus trail build session (half day).

Post author:Rafe
Post published:December 29, 2012
Post category:Events / Local Event / MBSwindon Event / Novice Friendly / Trail Building
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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…

Croft Trail evening ride

Post author:Rafe
Post published:December 28, 2012
Post category:Events / Local Event / MBSwindon Event / Novice Friendly
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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…