10am meeting outside the visitor centre The ride will be led by Swinley master Ania, who will take us through the forest to forage for food and cut up the trails for cake! We will start at the visitor centre and the ride will be around 4-6hrs depending on how tired we are. We will …
Words & Photos by Gary Palmer The weather Gods were going to be good to me again – brilliant! I turned up at the Swinley car park to see flashes of green & pink MB Swindon shirts all over the place. At 10.00 am, 15 of us met at the wooden shelter. A couple of the …
Whilst a lot of the club will be racing at Erlestoke, this will be the exact opposite. A nice, comfortable, novice friendly loop from Barbury Castle, intended to be taken at a very relaxed pace. Taking in some great views across the downs of North Wiltshire, we’ll gently head down to Ogbourne Maisey, before taking …
This was only my third sportive, and the second time that I had done this one. Registration was done in a few minutes and I went through a few stretches as I listened to the safety briefing before heading off on the short route – 50 miles. It didn’t take long for the range of …
This promises to be a great race, with a twist on the usual gravity enduro. Practise in the day, and race in the night! They promise “4 stages of long technical singletrack with the odd feature chucked in”. The MB Swindon Gravity Team will be there, why not come and join in the racing, or …
This is a bit of an epic. It’s just under 60km and 1000m of ascent in the south Cotswolds. It takes in some great trails around Ozleworth, Wotton, North Nibley, Dursley, Kingscote and Nailsworth. A few parts are common to the Nailsworth It ride. See the write up from the recce that Tom and …
