We will be starting at Shortwood car park, (this is not Shortwood football club Nailsworth) The route will be about 15 miles, lets see how we feel, we might want to do some bits twice. There will be single track, bomb holes, drop offs, road links and of course a nice bit of climbing. If its not […]
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Gary Palmer will lead this ride which will revisit a route the club rode in March 2013… and it’s a cracker! The distance and amount of climbing involved means that this ride is not suitable for novice riders, but it features some of the best single track in the Birdlip area. Read a report on the original Painful Painswick
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We’ve had a dry week and the forecast for the weekend looks good. While it’s not quite summer it does offer a good chance to get out on your bike before we get hit by more wet weather. The club are heading Stroud way to sample the delights of the local singletrack. Capably led by our
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Gary Palmer is leading this challenging ride which will include some nice single track, bombholes, slippy roots and some tasty climbing. The distance will be about 17 miles and should take about 3.5 hours. Although this is a relatively short ride, Gary stresses that the distance does not reflect the effort required to complete it! If conditions are good,
Gary Palmer will be leading this 21 mile ride across the badlands of Stroud. The ride is 21 miles long has 2400 ft of climbing. There are some rocky descents and some testing climbs (great scenery though!) As a guide, Gary’s recce ride took 3 hours With technically difficult parts, as well as the
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After several weeks of rain and with storms forecast then things were looking promising for this ride. The route promised several fun descents and few sets of steps – see the recce write up. Despite the weather the ride went ahead as advertised. On the day only Tom and Gary turned up so they
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By Tim Norris – copied from his blog. After 6 hours of riding and around 1200m climbing (occasionally on foot) we finished what turned into an epic ride at around 4.30pm. We gathered back at the cars in the now pouring rain and agreed it had been a tough ride with something for everyone. The
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By Gary Palmer. Photos by Tom Stickland, Gary Palmer, Gary Yeates and Pete Toop. I got to the leisure centre car park in Stroud at 9.30 ish and there were already some guys there. Keen me thinks. The weather definitely looked like it was going to be kind to us. What a relief because this
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Some long exposure photographs that I took on a random ride near Stroud one evening in August. Taken with my trusty Canon S90. Short video of some steps
