Peak district trip with Hit The Hills

May 11th 2012 Events & MBSwindon Event

Hit The Hills offer fully catered mountain biking weekends at various locations around the UK. They have a fully trained chef who works with locally sourced ingredients. They offer club members a 10% discount on bookings – see our full discount list. We’ll be visiting the Peak District for the weekend of Friday 11th – [...]

Weekend trip to Mudtrek (near Brechfa)

Feb 24th 2012 Events & MBSwindon Event

Mudtrek describe themselves as “the ski chalet for mountain bikers”. They are located in Wales near the Brechfa trails. See our ride reports from April 2011 and December 2010 plus our Brechfa trail guide. The plan is: Arrive Friday evening and drink beer. Do an epic ride straight from Mudtrek on Saturday with Jason, their [...]

Club weekend: Corfe Castle & The Purbecks (Dorset)

Oct 28th 2011 Events & MBSwindon Event

Club irregular Nikala has come up with two classic rides for us in Dorset. On Saturday we’ll be taking the Sandbanks ferry from Bournemouth across to the Isle of Purbeck. See this Bikely map for a typical route. After some compulsary beer or cider drinking then we’ll probably have hurty heads on the Sunday so [...]

Build weekend right now!

Sep 17th 2011 Announcement

We’re going for a big push at the Croft Trail (Wiltshire) this weekend. We’ll be on site from 9am until dark both days. We’re holding a BBQ on Saturday afternoon. If you can spare some time then turn up when you like and come to help. Saturday info, Sunday info. We’ll be in the triangle [...]

Bank holiday weekend trip to North Wales.

Aug 26th 2011 Events & MBSwindon Event & Novice Friendly

The 2010 North Wales trip was voted as one of the top three events of the year. See theride report and google map of North Wales MTB routes. We’re going back this year for another three and a half days of riding. We’re staying at the Tyddyn Bychan rural bunkhouse. This is ideally situated somewhere [...]

Ride report: Wyre Forest + Clee Hill weekend

Jul 12th 2011 Ride Report

Report coming later. Photos for now!

Riding this weekend (9th & 10th July 2011).

Jul 8th 2011 Announcement

Friday camping in Bewdley here. Saturday Wyre Forest ride, meet for 10am at camp site here. Sunday Clee Hill, meet for 9:30am start here.

Club ride: Ridgeway out and back weekend

May 21st 2011 Events & Local Event & MBSwindon Event

The National Ridgeway is Britain’s oldest road. The Western half is open to cyclists, giving just over 43 miles of waymarked track and a few short bits of road. It’s not technical riding at all. We’re doing it for the hell of it; it’s going to be fun. The Plan We were originally starting from [...]

Build report: Sat 9th & Sun 10th April 2011

Apr 11th 2011 Croft Diary

Saturday 9th April 2011 The plan for the weekend was to dig out a new climb and descent on Piper’s hill. This was the result of three years of discussion and around 15 drawings concerning what to do with the hill. The plan was quite simple – a diagonal climb up the hill roughly parallel [...]

Weekend trips – book now

Jan 25th 2011 Announcement

We’ve got several weekend trips planned this year. Please take a look and help us by booking early. The first event in particular needs a few more confirmations to make booking the bunk barn viable. All of our weekend trips are sociable and new riders will be made very welcome. We’ll have a range of [...]

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