Forest of Dean MTB Enduro 2010
This is a cross country race in the Forest of Dean. Riders can select 1, 2 or 4 laps. More information on the Royal Dean Forest Riding Club website.
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This is a cross country race in the Forest of Dean. Riders can select 1, 2 or 4 laps. More information on the Royal Dean Forest Riding Club website.
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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
Hargroves Cycles Swindon shop opening. Read More »
Friday 17th September Another 20 tonnes of crushed limestone was delivered at 3pm. I then had a few hours spare before the weekly evening ride round the trail (see events page for details of next ride). I decided to make further progress on my litter sweep. I filled 5 sacks in about 2 hours. Most
Trail build report: Fri 17th – Sun 19th September 2010 Read More »
We’ve built a lot of new trail this year. Before winter sets in we need to surface some existing sections to ensure that they survive the winter. The aim will be to reinforce several bits of Piper’s hill (1 on the map) with rubble before the probation service move a load of chippings in for
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We’ve built a lot of new trail this year. Before winter sets in we need to surface some existing sections to ensure that they survive the winter. The aim will be to reinforce several bits of Piper’s hill (1 on the map) with rubble before the probation service move a load of chippings in for
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We’re having a big push down at the trail this weekend. It’d be great to see you. Just turn up anytime and say hello. No special skills required. Tools provided. Stay as long as you want. You’ll find us by the number 3 in the map below. Otherwise just walk round the trail until you
Build weekend – see you down there yeah? Read More »
We’ve been doing a lot of riding. Wyre Forest Ridgeway North Wales bank holiday weekend Forest of Dean novice friendly ride We’ve attracted some more media attention. Some web site additions: UK trail centre map Article on bike lights Mountain biking in Les Deux Alpes Croft trail videos We’re putting in 5 teams for the
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We tidied up the trail on the South side of the pitch. This was originally build in December 2008. The line was straightened out a bit and a new berm was built in place of a tight corner round a tree. Meanwhile, on the North side of the pitch another pointless corner was removed. Finally
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This was our second trail build day (Phil and Tom). At that time we had no idea where this project was going to go. We just saw a trail with potential and wanted to start making some changes to it. For this day we built berms on two flat corners that we felt needed them.
Second trail build day – berm shaping Read More »
This was the very first build day for what was to become the MBSwindon club 18 months later. Phil had heard about the trail in the woods behind Nationwide and taken a look. He asked me (Tom) if I was up for a spot of trail building and I said yes. We spotted a nice
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