Barbury Bun Run
Tom Scott will be leading this local ride from Barbury Castle down to Avebury and back. The ride is not technical, so may be suitable for novice riders, but a reasonable level of fitness will be required (especially on the way back!)
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St David’s Day Dash
March gets underway with a ride led by Gary Yeates. Although not technically difficult, the distance of this ride will require riders to have a reasonable level of fitness. The details of the route are yet to be confirmed, but will include a stop at the cafe at Avebury. This event is also open to
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Ride Report: Magical Mystery Monument Tour
Words and pictures by Tim Noris “I am sorry.” Said an increasingly worried ride leader as they rode through another stretch of muddy bridleway. “It was nothing like this when I rode it last July!” The weary riders carefully tried to avoid murky puddles of unknown depths. The day had begun with bright blue skies
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Magical Mystery Monument Tour
Tim Norris will be leading a novice friendly ride in the Calne area, taking in Yatesbury, Avebury and the Cherhill Monument. The route will be between 15 and 20 miles, depending on conditions on the day, and won’t contain anything too technical. There will be some steady climbs, but nothing too big, and probably quite a
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Ride Report – Western Ridgeway Ride
Words and pictures by Tom Scott On Thursday the weather forecast was shocking. Overnight rain, followed by heavy rain, 8 degrees and a 15 mph south-westerly wind. The forecast improved a bit on Friday but still looked a bit iffy. Anyway, four of us (me, Graham B, Debbie D and Mark H, decided to brave it
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Ride Report: West Woods 18th August 2013
Words by Neal Middlemore, pictures by Phil Loebl & Andrew Weaver The date: 18th August 2013 The time: 09:00 The route: Croft Trail > Marlborough > West Woods > Avebury > Croft Trail We left Croft at about 09:15, so just a minimum of faffing; we may well have broken Tim’s formula! We had twelve
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Ride report: Robin’s ridgeway epic (46 miles)
This was billed as a long and epic ride so we knew what to expect. There were 7 keen riders raring to go when I arrived at Coate Water at 9:30am. We started off by following route 45 to Chiseldon and then onto the well known bridleway to the bottom of the ridgeway. After declaring
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Ride report: Check Inn to Wansdyke (FFS) Sun 11th Sept 2011
This was the FFS ride (Family friendly social). A group of 8 riders set off from the Check Inn at 10am ish. The original plan was to ride around the Ridgeway for a bit and then make it back to the pub to eat at 2pm. Chris introduced some spec creep, so once we’d made
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Epic ridgeway + Wansdyke ride
Chris has invented a long ride that takes in the White Horse trail, the Wansdyke, Morgans Hill, The Cherhill monument, the Marlborough downs and the ridgeway. It should come to around 35-40 miles. The event will start and finish* at the Check Inn in Wroughton near Swindon (Google map location). * this isn’t an out
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Wansdyke evening ride photos (1st June 2011)
This was an evening ride that we did round the Wansdyke loop on 1st June 2011. OS Map, GPX. See previous Wansdyke ride report.
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