Ride report from Gary Palmer All those days my neighbours had been wondering what I was doing in the back yard had paid off, the sun dance had worked. Although a bit chilly it was going to be a nice day, it had been dry for over a week so I knew the trails would …
Two days of riding on this weekend trip to Shropshire. We’ll be staying in the Blazing Bikes camping pods at Marshbrook near Church Stretton. There’s a pub right there which is handy. On Saturday we’ll be riding straight from the site onto the Long Mynd. The Long Mynd is a reasonably compact areas with several …
Weekend trip: Long Mynd and Hopton Woods (Shropshire) Read More »
This was billed as a long and epic ride so we knew what to expect. There were 7 keen riders raring to go when I arrived at Coate Water at 9:30am. We started off by following route 45 to Chiseldon and then onto the well known bridleway to the bottom of the ridgeway. After declaring …
Robin Steward has planned this ‘Enduro’ run out to Knap Hill from Swindon. It’s similar to our Epic Ridgeway ride from June 2011 and our FFS ride from Sept 2011 Full option: meet at Coate Water diving platform 9.30 for 9:45am start. Short option: meet at Barbury Castle car park, ready to ride for 10.30am. …
This was a sneaky recce ride that Phil and myself did at the newly opened red grade trail at Hopton Woods in Shropshire. The trail had a mixture of surfaced parts, muddy sections, a really interesting section round the quarry and also linked into some of the easier downhill tracks. A really interesting trail and …
