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Jul
17
Sun
Summer Bike Park Wales trip 17th July @ Bike Park Wales
Jul 17 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Our next trip to Bike Park Wales will be Sunday 17th July.

Tickets go on sale 3 months before, but you will have to be quick!

BPW group photo

*NB – cake not provided, bring your own! To share 😉

Jul
24
Sun
Family Railway Ride @ Waitrose Swindon
Jul 24 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Family Railway Ride @ Waitrose Swindon | England | United Kingdom
This is SMTBE’s first family ride, with all riders welcome.
We’re starting at the Waitrose in Witchelstowe and use the old railway line round the bottom of Old Town. The route is 3.5 miles, with a playground stop 🙂
The ride is sutiable for trailers as well as younger riders and small bikes.
There is parking, toilets and food at Waitrose, where we will start and finish.
Jul
9
Sun
Cwmcarn if you can @ PS Cycles, Cwmcarn
Jul 9 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Cwmcarn if you can @ PS Cycles, Cwmcarn  | Wales | United Kingdom

Time for another visit to Cwmcarn.

This is a great Welsh trail centre, with 2 XC trails and some downhill tracks, with uplift available.

The main ride is 10am on Sunday, but we’ll be there the whole weekend if you want to join in on Saturday too.

Plan is to camp over Saturday nigh, ready to do the main day ride on the Sunday.

We will meet at 10am at PS Cycles on the Sunday for the main ride.

Apr
29
Sun
Chilterns Spring Excursion @ Watlington
Apr 29 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Chilterns Spring Excursion @ Watlington

Place marker for your diaries for a chiltern away day, led by Robert Wine.

This will be a ride around some of the best of the Chilterns taking in Wormsley Estate (Getty owned), quaint villages like Turville, and nice, wooded singletrack. Nothing technical, but a good mix of up and down (repeat several times), a bit of Tarmac, trees, roots, horses, mud.

It’ll be about 35km/700m and when it’s dry it’s got lots of fast flowing paths; if it’s wet, well, we may just change the plan a bit.

Jun
9
Sun
Cotswolds Pretty Rocky Ride @ The Carpenter's Arms, Miserden
Jun 9 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Although we go south of Swindon lots, but we’ve not yet done a trip to the north, so let’s change that!
Starting in the village of Miserden, just north of Cirencester, we will do a 20km lap of some fantastic scenery and riding. The views are driving the route, but there are some epic downhills as well. It’s graded as Red for technicality (due to the rocky descents and climbs) and Red for fitness, as there is over 500m of climbing involved.

We will start and finish at the Carpenter’s Arms in Miserden. It’s a great pub with excellent post ride sustenance and even a sweet shop inside.

Helmets are compulsory as always and knee pads are advised.
Full suspension bikes recommended – the uphills are just as rocky as the downs!