A new cafe is opening at Chiseldon. This will be ideal for our local rides (see our events calendar). Opening hours are 10am-6pm Thursday to Saturday and 10am-4pm on Sunday. http://www.threetreesfarm.co.uk/.
New cafe at Chiseldon – ideal for local rides. Read More »
We spent several months over the winter of 2010 surfacing and reinforcing existing sections of trail. Since the warmer weather the trail has dried out and is in great shape for riding. The hard work has paid off – the trail is really fun to ride at the moment. We’re in such a good mood
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This is a very interesting project. Some keen bikers have bought 106 acres of woodland near Llangynog in North Wales and are planning a permanent downhill and freeride course with full time uplift. They hope to have the first phase open by the summer of 2011. Revolution Bike Park website. Revolution Bike Park Facebook group.
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Hargroves cycles are officially opening their Swindon shop on Wednesday 22nd September 2010. The doors actually opened a few days ago, but Wednesday is official. Craig Surgy from Hargroves said “We plan to hold 155 bikes at any one time. This includes Brands such as Specialized, Cube, Scott, Felt, Ridley, Bianchi and more.” “We have
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Hargroves cycles will soon be opening a showcase cycle store in Swindon. They promise many leading brands including Specialized, Cube, Bianchi, Felt and Scott. They plan to “give Swindon the ultimate cycle shopping experience”. Founder Peter Hargroves said “we are very excited to bring the Hargroves Cycles brand to Swindon. This new venture is our
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We’ve done a lot of trail building in 2010. Most of this has been rebuilding work, with a significant redesign of the layout. This has been done to remove confusing junctions, make better use of any gradient and to make the trail flow better. Pretty much the first third of the trail is now less
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Thursday 10th June We spent a few hours doing an important job that had nothing to show for itself. On the back straight of the new start we dug out the yellow gravel, filled the hole with Limestone chippings and then put the yellow gravel back on the top. We hope that this will fix
Trail build report: Thur 10th & Sun 13th June 2010 Read More »
It’s the general election night 2010 and we’re going to spend 2 hours doing some trail building. The plan is to shape and reinforce one of the berms and to build a special “one way valve” rock feature to discourage people from cycling down the return loop for the new section. It is not necessary
Erection night 2010, evening build session. Read More »
Thursday On Thursday evening we spent a few hours working on the trail. Present were Alan, new recruit army Mike and myself. We dug out the straights between the berms on the new Red section and filled them with rubble. It rained for a while. Saturday On Saturday I arrived at 10am and spent a
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