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Bank holiday weekend trip to North Wales.

Aug 26th 2011 Events & MBSwindon Event & Novice Friendly

The 2010 North Wales trip was voted as one of the top three events of the year. See theride report and google map of North Wales MTB routes. We’re going back this year for another three and a half days of riding. We’re staying at the Tyddyn Bychan rural bunkhouse. This is ideally situated somewhere [...]

Trail build news 25th Aug 2011

Aug 25th 2011 Croft Diary

For the last month or so we’ve been digging out the new section in the triangle. See the build reports! Sat 18th June Sun 19th June Sat 16th July Tue 19th July Tue 2nd August Wed 10th August Wed 17th August Wed 24th August Today we had 50 tonnes delivered using the 10 tonne lorry. [...]

Trail build report: 24th Aug 2011

Aug 24th 2011 Croft Diary

This was another of our build evenings. Last week we claimed that we’d had our channel tunnel moment. However we were lying because this week we truly had a channel tunnel moment as we dug out the last remaining section. Once we’d done that we then widened up some sections that had already been dug [...]

August trail build evening #3

Aug 24th 2011 MBSwindon Event & Novice Friendly & Trail Building

Meeting at 6:30pm in the car park. We’re keen to carry on with the progress in the new triangle section. Trail build evenings allow for an hour or two of work and a lot usually gets done in that time. See our recent build reports:June 18th, June 19th, July 16th, July 19th),19th July, 2nd Aug. [...]

Ride report: Forest of Dean 21st Aug 2011

Aug 21st 2011 Ride Report

Ride reports from Forest of Dean (include other trails and rides): September 2010 (novice friendly), November 2010, January 2011. After a bit of wait our group of 18 riders set off from Pedalabikeaway down the brand new Verderer’s Trail (Blue grade). Our guide for the day was Roger, a friend of Pete from cc-cc (Cheltenham [...]

Trail build report: 17th Aug 2011

Aug 21st 2011 Croft Diary

This was another of our Wednesday build evenings. See the events calendar for upcoming build evenings. It was something of a channel tunnel moment as we dug out the soil to connect two sections together.Big thanks to those who came along: Nick, Andy Matthews, Chris Hopkinson, Jez and Phil. We also fixed one of the [...]

Club ride: Forest of Dean

Aug 21st 2011 Events & MBSwindon Event

The Forest of Dean ride is going to be lead by a rider who’s lived in the area for years and knows some really sneaky paths that few people use so it should be interesting. We’re meeting at the pedalabikeaway centre in the Forest. Google map.

Some random news Aug 2011

Aug 19th 2011 Announcement

Octoberfest If you want to ride in a team then let Phil know (phil at mbswindon dot co dot uk). It’s going to be massive! Oktoberfest info (Facebook event). Raffle We’ve got a load of raffle prizes lined up for our curry night (Facebook event). So far The Big Adventure Store, Hargroves, Mudtrek, Ski Morzine [...]

Croft Trail evening ride

Aug 19th 2011 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 [...]

August trail build evening #2

Aug 17th 2011 MBSwindon Event & Novice Friendly & Trail Building

Meeting at 6:30pm in the car park. We’re keen to carry on with the progress in the new triangle section. Trail build evenings allow for an hour or two of work and a lot usually gets done in that time. See our recent build reports: May 14th, May 15th, June 18th, June 19th, July 16th, [...]

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