The Club is targeting a few commercial events during the year, and would like to get as big a group of riders as possible to attend. We’ll take along the Club gazebos and make each event a big ‘Club day out’. There are two parts to this event, a demo day similar to our own Hargroves […]
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Phil Allum from the MB Swindon Race Team was up at Baskerville Hall in Clyro for the final round of the Mondraker Enduro Series 2015. So stop what you are doing for 5 minutes, go make a brew and read what he has to say. We headed off to the 5th and final round of
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Phil Allum’s report. With the weather forecast predicting torrential rain for most of the weekend, for the first time ever, my preparations included packing the wellies. There didn’t appear to be any hope of dry riding this weekend, so thought my feet might as well stay dry when I’m wondering around the race village instead. That and swapping
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Note: This event, originally scheduled for May, has now been moved to September. Erlestoke remains an MBSwindon firm favourite and we have teams enter every year. Maybe it’s the chance to ride on a super course only open for this event or maybe it’s the great atmosphere. Whatever it is, it comes highly recommended by
So round 3 took us back to Crychan Forest. We stopped here for a round in the 2014 series, when the stages contained lots of rocky tracks and some bits of freshly cut trails. Would the balance still be heavily in favour of the existing rocky tracks? Or have the Redkite Team been slaving away
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Waking up to my alarm at stupid o’clock on a Saturday morning, a grin spreads across my face. It’s Redkite Enduro round 2 time! A quick check over that the essentials were packed the night before (how organised am I?) –then porridge for breakfast and a gallon of coffee for the journey, KISS FM being
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Redkite events/Empire cycles enduro round 2 on the weekend of July 26th & 27th promises to be an absolute corker of an event. Round 1 was an awesome weekend of laid back racing on amazing trails in a brilliant location. Round 2 promises to be even bigger and better! The Gravity Team will be there,
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This was a low key team event – just Aaron from Cotswold Veldrijden and myself, together known as “the odd pair”. Out for a 10 hour pair at the Thetford Enduro in Thetford forest organised by Thetford MTB Racing (this event was near Thetford). Officially called the Reval Outdoor Summer Enduro. Did anyone make it to
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Hargroves Cycles bring you the 2013 QECycleFest. Named after the venue of Queen Elizabeth park, home to the QECP trail collective. There’s a 4 hour enduro race on the Saturday evening followed by a demo day on Sunday. There’s also a road sportive on the Saturday if you’re that way inclined. See the 2012 photos for an
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The SPAM winter challenge is a mountain bike enduro that’s held on MOD land near Erlestoke (google map). There’s a choice of 25,35 and 60km routes. According to SPAM the route isn’t overly technical and you can take it as fast or as slowly as you like. See the SPAM Winter Challenge website for more
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