We really enjoyed the Erlestoke 12 race in 2013 (and 2012 and 2011). It’s back for 2014 and at the same great venue; a wooded hill on land owned by the MOD near Salisbury plain. There’s a choice of 12 hour and 6 hour races plus categories for solo, pairs, teams of 4 including male, female, […]
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Although this is not an MB Swindon event, there are usually quite a few of our members who take part. This is a well organised cross country event held at Erlestoke, Wiltshire. SPAM biking organise various events throughout the year including the Erlestoke 12.This one, the SPAM Winter Challenge, has three distances to chose from,
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We really enjoyed the Erlestoke 12 race in 2012 and 2011 (see the 2011 photos and video). It’s back for 2013 and at the same great venue; a wooded hill on land owned by the MOD near Salisbury plain. There’s a choice of 12 hour and 6 hour races plus categories for solo, pairs, teams of
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The Spambiking Erlestoke12 event takes place on MOD land near the Erlestoke prison. It’s one of our favourite locations. It provides a lot of interesting singletrack. The 2012 route followed a similar layout to previous years albeit with some minor modifications. The bomb holes at the top of the hill were still probably the best
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The SPAM winter challenge is a mountain bike enduro that’s held on MOD land near Erlestoke (google map). There’s a choice of 25,35 and 60km routes. According to SPAM the route isn’t overly technical and you can take it as fast or as slowly as you like. See the SPAM Winter Challenge website for more
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The Spam Blast 2012 route offers 110 and 60km options on double track and roads and takes in all three main training areas on Salisbury Plain: Eastern, Central and Western. Based at West Lavington, the start venue will have toilets, showers, free parking, bike shop service, food and drink and signing on. More info on
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We really enjoyed the Erlestoke 12 race in 2011 (see the photos and video). It’s back for 2012 and at the same great venue; a wooded hill on land owned by the MOD near Salisbury plain. There’s a choice of 12 hour and 6 hour races plus categories for solo, pairs, teams of 4 including
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By Chris Hopkinson I’d been looking forward to this event since it was announced back in February. Actually I’d been looking forward to it since last year’s race but as it’s held on MOD land and the MOD weren’t too keen on mountain bikers tearing around there had been a strong rumour that this year’s
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The SPAM winter challenge is an annual mountain bike enduro that’s held on MOD land near Erlestoke. There’s a choice of 25,35 and 50km routes (16,22 and 31 miles respectively). We had around 10 riders at the event in the 50 and 35km routes. Our fastest, Jerome, did the 30 miles in 2h 27m, with
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The SPAM winter challenge is a mountain bike enduro that’s held on MOD land near Erlestoke. There’s a choice of 25,35 and 50km routes (16,22 and 31 miles respectively). According to SPAM the route isn’t overly technical and you can take it as fast or as slowly as you like. Bertie Maffoons bike shop will
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