Hit The Hills offer fully catered mountain biking weekends at various locations around the UK. They have a fully trained chef who works with locally sourced ingredients. They offer club members a 10% discount on bookings – see our full discount list. We’ll be visiting the Peak District for the weekend of Friday 11th – [...]
The Malvern Hills are the big hills clearly visible to the west when travelling up the Severn valley from Gloucester towards Birmingham. Local ride Ross Miller is going to take us on a loop round the hills starting and finishing at the market town of Ledbury. Richard Ashcroft from the Verve is from Ledbury according [...]
This is going to be a combined regular club ride and novice friendly ride at Cwm Carn trails near Newport in South Wales. That means that we’ll split into two groups at the start. Really keen people can do a second lap. The cross country loop has quite a severe climb to get to the [...]
Mudtrek describe themselves as “the ski chalet for mountain bikers”. They are located in Wales near the Brechfa trails. See our ride reports from April 2011 and December 2010 plus our Brechfa trail guide. The plan is: Arrive Friday evening and drink beer. Do an epic ride straight from Mudtrek on Saturday with Jason, their [...]
Robin Steward is leading this ride from the Croft Trail over the downs via Marlborough and Aldbourne. See the ride report from June for an idea of what to expect.
The Ashton Court trails were rebuilt in 2011 and there’s a whole new trail in nearby Leigh Woods that opened in late December (trail plans plus Bristol Trails Group website). We’ll be visiting all of the trails plus maybe some old favourites in 50 Acre wood. See ride reports from Dec 2011, Oct 2011 (inc [...]
Rafe is leading this ride over the Marlborough downs, starting from Barbury castle (google map of start location). Meet at 10am for 10:15am start. Photos from a previous ride on the downs.
W2 is the White’s Level trail plus the Wall (sometimes known as WW2 so bring your camo kit and rifles). That’s two trails for the price of one. See out Afan trail guide including a google map of the trails. We have a club discount at local bike shope Lodge Cycles (shop location). Some previous [...]
Swinley Forest is a great mountain biking area near Bracknell. This is an Alan friendly ride. We’ve got a local guide (Steve Dunn) to show us all of the good stuff. He’s a member of Berks on Bikes (I think). We’re meeting at 10am in the main lookout car park. That’s the right hand car [...]
Our Forest of Dean trips always seem to draw a decent crowd. There is a lot to offer with the Verderer’s trail, the original Freeminer’s (FODCA) trail plus the downhill runs and then loads of off-piste single track. See ride photos from August 2011 for more ideas. See also thefod.co.uk. We met at the Pedalabikeaway [...]
