See the photos from our visit to Swinley in November 2011 plus the gpx route maps. Full map: OS | Bing | Map my ride | GPX Simplified map: OS | GPX It had rained for two weeks and the forecast was for heavy rain. So we had high hopes that the sunny weather would […]
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Ride on Sunday 15th April 2012 So, another glorious day for the MBSwindon ladies (well, until it snowed!) It was lovely to be joined by Jen (+1) +the hubby supervising), Jo, Natasha, Sarah, Bridget, new recruit Ann, Lorna, and honorary girl for the day, Richard (recovering from knee surgery). As planned, we congregated in the
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There’s less than a week to go now until the mountain bike test day on Sunday 6th May 2012 at the Croft Trail in Swindon. There will be over 45 new bike models to try out. Just turn up on the day with a passport and credit card in order to take a bike out.
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Due to popular demand after a stonking ride in November then we’re going back to Swinley Forest. This is a great mountain biking area near Bracknell. Once again we’ve got local rider Steve Dunn to show us all of the good stuff. He’s a member of Muddy Moles. We’re meeting at 10am in the main
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Kristian is leading this short ride round the countryside to the south of Marlborough. It starts at Pewsey, includes Pewsey hill and overlooks the Pewsey vale. Hence the ride name. Meet at the Bouverie Hall car park in Pewsey at 10am for a 10:15am start. Car park info. Planned route OS Map | GPX. Image
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Hargroves Cycles will be holding a clearance event on the 28th and 29th of April at the Swindon shop. Opening times are Saturday 9 am – 5.30pm and Sunday 10am – 4pm. This event will have a good selection of non perfect bikes and old models at fantastic prices. There will be a buy two
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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 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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These are photos from the team marking out the route and from the event itself on Sunday 22nd April 2012. Route maps here. Photobucket photos of riders on the long route here. Full size photos also on Flickr. A group of 9 volunteers spent several hours on Saturday marking out the routes. Our luck was
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This is the list of demo bikes that will be available at the bike demo day with Hargroves Cycles in May 2012 (event info). Scott Scale 20 M/L Scale 29er M Spark 20 S/M/L/XL Genius M/L Spark 29er Pro L Stevens Glide SX S/M/L Fluent ES S/M/L Ridge M/L Colorado M/L Cube 18″ Fritzz 18″
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Photo courtesy of Siobhan Boyle from the Swindon Advertiser. This is a fund raising cycling event organised by The Prospect Hospice. Last year we helped by marshalling and sweeping the event. This year MBSwindon Club are planning the routes. There will be a fairly easy 24km (15 mile) option suitable for most bikes and a
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