Archive

 Here are all of our news articles from the past few years, now archived as the homepage was starting to look too busy! Happy browsing...
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2007 Archive:

  • Summer is here...
    With the sun out and the trails dry and dusty, we had to get out and ride to welcome the summer in for 2007. Check out a few of our pics from our days riding in the Chilterns...
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  • Cycle Show 2007 :: Event REVIEW
    Review of Earls court Cycle Show 2007. Some of the hot gossip and news from some of the top MTB companies stables...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Woodcote Evans Trail Ride Sat 4th August :: PREVIEW
     Trailbreak Evans Cycles Trail ride comes to Woodcote (nr Reading) on Saturday 4th August
     [Read more...]
     
  • Cycle Show 2007 :: Event Preview
    This years Cycle Show at Earls Court in London is looming ever closer. Catch a quick preview and low down of the event here...
     [Read more...]
     
  • West Drayton MTB Black Park XC Race Report
    The 25th March saw West Drayton MTB Club holding their first XC race of the season at Black Country Park. With over 100 riders turning out it was a superb success, and of course we were there to race as well...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Evans Cycles Woodcote Trail Ride ::  Event Review
     March 10th 2007 saw the TrailBreak guys and gals organising another Evans Cycles Trail Ride at the village of Woodcote, nr Reading. We attended the trail ride and what a day it was... (Updated 13-03-07...)
     [Read more...]
     
  • Buckingham Bikes takes over Aston Hill :: TOP NEWS
    The worries of losing Aston Hill are now gone as Buckingham Bikes has taken the plunge and renewed the lease on the hill!!! Bucks bikes will be carrying on running Aston Hill for 2007 and beyond... Look out for Aston Hill reopening very soon!
     [Read more...]
     
  • Aston Hill Buy Out Update (see above ^^)
     Many of you will know Aston Hill MTB Area has been going through a change of ownership. Sadly things haven't worked out as planned, so Aston Hill will be SHUT from Friday 6th April for the foreseeable future until future plans and ownership are confirmed....
     [Read more...]
     
  • Milton Keynes Evans Trail Ride Sat 16th June
     Trailbreak Evans Cycles Trail ride comes to MK this weekend, on Saturday 16th June...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Mix 96 Tour de Vale Bike Ride - June 10th 2007
     The Tour de Vale sponsored Charity bike ride returns to Aylesbury Vale for 2007 in aid of WheelPower, British Wheelchair Sport. Three different length rides are available....
     [Read more...]
     
  • Mountain Mania/Balfa UK now an INTENSE DEALER
    Mountain Mania Cycles/Balfa UK in Tring are now an official INTENSE bike dealer...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Evans Cycles Trail Rides Summer 2007
    New dates and locations released for TrailBreak Evans Trail rides over summer 2007
     [Read more...]
     
  • Buckingham Bikes Summer Demo Days
     Buckingham Bikes will be offering the chance for you to ride the new range of Scott and Giant Bikes on Saturday the 28th and Sunday 29th of July...
     [Read article...]
     
  • NPS XC Margam Park Rd3 Event Report
    Event report and photos from the latest round of the NPS XC from Margam Park, Wales.
    [Read more...]
     [View photo gallery...]
     
  • The National Bike Show EVENT REVIEW 2007
    The Bike show came back to the NEC for 2007. Read our event review, and read about our views on new kit and bikes on display at the show.
     [Read more & see photos...]
     
  • Sherwood Pines NPS XC/Trek Enduro Event Review
    Read our event write up for round 2 of the NPS XC at Sherwood Pines and an event report for the 100k and 50k Trek Marathons on 12/13th May 2007
     [Read more...]
     [View photo gallery...]
     
  • Evans Trail Ride Princes Risborough EVENT REVIEW
     Saturday the 21st of April saw the TrailBreak team bring an Evans Trail Ride to the Chilerns once more. Read our review by clicking read more below...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Evans Cycles Princes Risborough Trail Ride April 2007
     This year the TrailBreak Navigator Race normally seen run around Princes Risborough each year has been taken off the calendar for 2007 to be replaced instead by an Evans Trail ride, to take place on April 21st 2007...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Trailbreak 2007 Events
         TrailBreak     has announted the dates for their Dual Event Weekends Winter 2006-07. The events are held on the same weekend and include Evans Cycles Rides one day and one of the Navigator Races on the other....
         [Read more...]
     
  • Summit MTB Evening XC Race Series 07
     Summit MTB will be running another evening XC series at Lotts Wood (nr Amersham) this year..... (apologies, link now works correctly)
         [Read more...]
     
  • Midland TrailQuest Chiltern Hills MTB Event (May 2007)
     Midland Trailquests are bringing one of their     Magellan Midlands Summer Race Series Rounds to the Chiltern Hills this May. This 5 hour orienteering type mountain bike event is to start at Lane End (nr High Wycombe) and is set to be a superb success...
     [Read more...]
     
  • EVENT REMINDER: Bucks Off Road Classic Enduro
    This weekend (3rd June) sees the return of the West Drayton MTB Clubs Bucks Off Road Classic Enduros. 100km, 70km and 30km routes available...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Bucksmtb Malvern's Visit #2 - Feb07
    Our second visit to the Malvern's. More riding. More exploring. More photos....
     (Now reinstalled and working...)
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  • Bucksmtb XC Racing Season Preview
     A quick preview to what our XC race team will be up to over the 2007 season and which races and events will be attending....
     [Read article...]
     
  • January Riding Snow Report
     This week we all awoke to find the Chilterns covered in a good layer of snow - certainly not what most people were expecting for a Wednesday morning...
    [Read article & View Photos...]
     
  • Bucksmtb NEW YEAR Ride (XC)
         New Years Day could only mean one thing, to mark the start of another season of mountain biking and to mark another year of the site being open. We decided to head off and ride some local tracks for the morning.... [01-01-2007]
     [Read article & View Photos...]
     
  • Bucksmtb XMAS Forum Ride (DH)
         The 28th of December saw us hold our traditional annual Xmas ride at Aston Hill. This was a group ride organised through users of the forum and our help...
     [Read more & View Photos...]
     
  • 2007 Mountain Bike Race & Event Calendar Online
         We have just finished installing our 2007 Mountain Bike Racing, MTB Event and MTB show calendar. Find listings of most UK shows and XC, DH and 4X races for Southern England, The Midlands, Wales and certain Scottish Events... I hope its useful it took forever to compile...
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  • Bucksmtb Malverns Visit - XC
         A few weeks ago we headed off to the Malverns to sample some cross country tracks of a different nature...
    [Read more & View Photos...]
     [Go to Photo Gallery]
     
  • Local Buckinghamshire Bike Shop Xmas Bargains
     Christmas bargains at various local bike stores... enjoy a bargain this Christmas.... Sales, special Xmas deals and bucksmtb special discounts for this Christmas...
     [Read more...]

 

2006 Archive:

  • The Cycle Show 2006 Review, ExCel London
    T    he Cycle show 2006, eXcel centre London. For us at Bucksmtb this was our first chance to see the latest ranges of bikes and components due to hitting the bike stores for 07...
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  • 24Seven UK Downtown Race
     The first ever UK DH downtown race took to the streets of Bridgnorth in Shropshire on Sunday October 15th 2006...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Evans Cycle Store Trail Ride - Gatwick 14th October
     Gatwick Evans Store Trail Ride. It's time for the Gatwick Trail Ride again, which means a whole load of trade stands and goodies in the Evans store to see and buy, as well as the usual trail rides. There will also be the chance to book a demo bikes. The trail ride is on Saturday 14th October, Evans Cycles nr Gatwick, Crawley Surrey.
     [Read more...]
     
  • Aston Hill DH3 Race 17th September 2006
         The final round of the 2006 Aston Hill DH Series took place this weekend, also marking the final race for Aston Hill under the ownership of Ian Warby. Well over 300 riders turned out to end the race season in style and to say farewell to the Warby family...
     [Report - Read more...]
     [Photo Gallery...]
     
  • Fat Face National MTB Champs - Moelfre
         It’s official. What has to be the ultimate MTB festival took place last weekend, namely the Fat Face National mtb Championships at Moelfre in Wales. A three day event with riders from downhill, 4x, trails, and XC competing for the coveted title of national champion in their respective categories...
     [Report - Read more...]
     [Photo Gallery...]
     
  • Fort William World Cup
    I'm sure many of you keen mountain bikers will have been looking forward to heading up to Fort William last weekend to catch the World Cup DH action - for those of you that didn't make it up to Scotland here's a race report and photos from the event...
     [Report - Read more...]
     [Photo Gallery...]
     
  • Ian leaves the hill...
    Those of you that ride at Aston Hill are more than likely aware who Ian Warby is - the man behind the hill, from both behind the desk and the one wielding the pick axe... Along with the trail building and membership club commitments his coaching courses running like clockwork have been essential to the success of so many of the young riders on the hill that have progressed through into pro racing or just progressed to a better level.
    After 8 years on the hill Ian has decided its time to hang up his shovel, click read more to find out why he's leaving and what his next exciting venture is...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Wycombe Summit MTB Local XC Racing
         Some of you may have raced a Wycombe Summit MTB event at the old ski slope in High Wycombe. Due to a fire at the old ski slope and
    the building being destroyed the Summit MTB series has relocated to the Chiltern1XV club wood, Lotts Wood, which is near Great Missenden. A whole series of XC races is on the cards for 2006....
     [Read more...]
     
  • Trek 6-4-2 Enduro - Sherwood Pines Race Report
         Whilst Kris and I were racing the local Navigator Race our fellow bmtb XC rider Mark strayed further afield to race the Trek 6-4-2 Enduro at Sherwood Pines (7th May 2006)
     [Read more...]
     [Photo Gallery...] Added 5-6-06
     
  • TrailBreak Fat Tyre Navigator P.Risborough Race Report
    The 7th of May 2006 saw Princes Risborough as the location for the final race of the 06 Navigator Series. Having raced last year and found it such a challenging event we had to dust the XC bikes off once more and head for the hills...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Abercarn Dragon Downhill Race Report & Photos
     Abercarn was the venue for the 3rd and 4th Rounds of the Dragon Downhill Series. With a great array of local buckinghamshire riders attending the event read more to find out how they got on and see photos of the action...
     [Read more...]
     [Photo Gallery...]
     
  • Local 2 day XC Endurance Weekend
     The 1-2nd July 2006 sees the 80mile/5000ft climbing endurance event come to the Ridgeway - from Princes Risborough to Avebury. This event is a two day fully supported mountain bike endurance weekend...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Buckinghamshire Off-Road Classic
    If you've followed us and the site over the past few years then you'll know were a great fan of the     Buckinghamshire Off-Road Classic event. Organised by The West Drayton MBC/Beyond Mountain Bikes, this year sees the 8th run of this 100km endurance event. Its not a race but a very tough challenging mainly off-road route with country lanes linking up the off-road sections...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Buckingham Bikes Iron Horse Demo Days
         The dates confirmed for you to jump aboard one of the new Iron Horse 2006 bikes are announced.
    Iron Horse demo days at Aston Hill are now booked for...
         [Read more...]
     
  • Group rides
     Seeing the weather is starting to change for the best and were getting nearer to the better weather it really is time for us to hold some group rides...
     [Read more...]
     
  • New bucksmtb Photographer
     We've been after a helping hand with the website for as long as i can remember. Luck may have it we now have a new volunteer... A very keen photographer and journalist he is too, along with being a keen mountain biker - so hopefully now we'll be able to cover more races and events than ever before....
    Read more to see James' new online photo collection.
     [Read more & See His work...]
     
  • Action Camera Helmet Cams via Aston Hill
         A week ago we were lucky enough to meet a guy called Sab from a small company called ActionCameras. He was up at Aston Hill demonstrating a new range of affordable helmet cameras....we liked them and the footage so much we thought we would share it with you too...
     [Read more...]
     
  • Local Bike Shop Listings
         Find your local bike shop in and around Buckinghamshire in our new local bike shop finder - find full listings and contact details for all local bike shops...
     [Read more...]
     
  • New Cafe in Wendover Woods
         We had heard rumours over the past week or so that a new cafe had been built up in the main car park of Wendover Woods - so we had to go and investigate...
         [Read More]
     
  • Aston Hill Black Run Race 2006 Photos
     The 19th of March  saw the Aston Hill DH series kick off for 2006. A fantastic days racing with a new record numbers of competitors for the past 2 years saw an excellent turn out and superbly competitive racing. To see the photos from the days racing...
     [See photos....]
     
  • Martin Ogden Interview
    An up close and personal interview with Oggy
     [Read More...]

 

2005 Archive:
2004+ Archive:

None listed. Archived on back up disc only. Available upon request only

 

 
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