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Ride Report: Round the Ridgeway

Ride Report: Round the Ridgeway

  • Post author:Kat
  • Post published:February 4, 2017
  • Post category:Ride Report
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Trying to come up with a route that is winter proof is quite tricky, especially considering it’s predominately clay and chalk around these parts. It was billed as a winter…

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The ride with one hill

The ride with one hill

  • Post author:Kat
  • Post published:June 12, 2016
  • Post category:Events / Local Event / MBSwindon Event / Novice Friendly
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Phil Allum will be leading this novice friendly ride from Coate water out onto the Malborough downs. The route has been drawn up to be non-technical, fairly flat and well…

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Ride Report: Ladies’ ‘Escape After Christmas Ride’

Ride Report: Ladies’ ‘Escape After Christmas Ride’

  • Post author:Steffan James
  • Post published:January 10, 2016
  • Post category:Ladies Ride Report / Ride Report
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Words and Photos by Debbie Davies By 10am, beside the lake at Coate Water, we had amassed 9 ladies ready to set off and tackle a rather wet, muddy Ridgeway…

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Tom’s Novice Friendly Ride

  • Post author:Steffan James
  • Post published:July 26, 2014
  • Post category:Events / Local Event / MBSwindon Event / Novice Friendly
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Tom Scott will be leading this Novice Friendly ride around the Chiseldon area including a ride up Smeathe's Ridge to Barbury Castle. Riders of all abilities are welcome to this…

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Ride Report: Back to Barbury

  • Post author:Steffan James
  • Post published:December 8, 2013
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Words and photos by Richard Ford Surprisingly, this was the first MB Swindon ride since February to start from Barbury Castle.  I rode from there a lot in the summer…

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Ride Report: Yeates’ Yomp

  • Post author:Steffan James
  • Post published:November 23, 2013
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Words and photos by Gary Yeates I set off from home to the arranged start point at the Ellendune Centre in Wroughton with a mixture of anticipation and slight apprehension,…

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Ride Report: Bring a Coate

  • Post author:Steffan James
  • Post published:November 2, 2013
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Words by Tom Scott   Photos by Fluffy Stockings Twelve brave souls gathered for a 'Novice Friendly' ride of some 20 miles along the Ridgeway. I planned this ride for…

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