We had originally planned to spend the day moving material so that we could surface some muddy sections. A lot of snow fell on Friday night and when we arrived on Saturday the ground was frozen solid. We decided to opt out of material moving and instead spent time doing a few odd jobs. We …
It was another cold day with snow and ice on the ground. The sun was shining though. After Chris dropped the power barrow off then Phil and myself used the last of our remote gravel pile to do a small modification to the trail. This was on the straight section just before the start of …
The sun was out but the temperature was still hovering around zero when six of us met up at Barbury Castle having completed our first challenge of getting up there in the cars (except Andrew who parked in Old Town and cycled up). After allowing plenty of time for anyone else struggling with leaving their …
There was still snow and ice on the ground when we started at 9:30am. It did feel a bit warmer though and it wasn’t raining. Chris dropped the power barrow off and I (Tom) was on my own for a few hours. I decided to move some rubble on the top of Piper’s hill but …
Codename: Urbane ride. We met at the Sun Inn car park (Google map of start location) for 7:15pm start. After fixing a puncture and fitting the rear light to my bike we finally started. We followed the Urban Round route. This is a 16 mile (25km) off road route around Swindon mainly on tarmac paths. …
Ride report: Swindon urban loop (cold) 1st Dec 2010 Read More »
Five of us started from Old Town in Swindon at 9am.This added 15km each way to the route. We met up with the rest of the group at Foxhill car park by 10:30am. It was a frosty day but we were prepared for the cold. We soon got going on the ride. It was a …
Ride report: Ridgeway to Wantage (cold) 28th Nov 2010 Read More »
