Going back to the routes of the club we will be hosting an event at the trail from 10:00 until 14:00, you can pop over whenever suits you and join us for a lap or two followed by cup of something hot and a bit of something sweet. It’s a chance to chat bikes, components […]
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The hard Tom Scott will be leading this hard ride. There will be at least three hard climbs up to Barbury Castle and another two major climbs elsewhere. This will be a real test of endurance and not for the faint hearted, but if you’re hard enough then this is for you. There will be
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Well, believe it or not I heard “Fairytale of New York” the other day which must mean it’s almost time for the MB Swindon Christmas do. This year we’ll be dining at Mackenzies in Old Town, £26.95 per person for a 3 course meal. Email chris@mbswindon.co.uk for menu and payment details. As always payment confirms your
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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 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
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This was the belly buster recovery ride, an annual institution for the club. I can’t find any photographs from 2012. There are some from 2011 and the snow of 2010 though. We had a sizeable group in the rain at Babury castle. I can’t remember exactly how many, but around fifteen. Phil Allum took
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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 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
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This build day is not happening. The Saturday build day is still going ahead. We are going to choose a day in Jan or Feb 2014 for a big push. Fill in our poll. Facebook event page. See the build diary for previous trail build activity.
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This was our last build day of the year. The plan was to fix and resurface a few muddy patches in the triangle using material that we’d moved on the previous build day. Phil Mayger, Kristian Price, Chris Macnamara and myself (Tom) were there from the start. On the walk down to the triangle we
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After a long gap over the summer we will be back working on the trail. It’s in great shape now. We’ll mainly be fixing up a patches of trail ready for the winter. We’ll have a load of material on site and the power barrow. As with all of our build days you are free
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 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
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