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2012 Trip to S. Wales
In July 2012 the clubwent on a trip to South Wales staying at The White Horse Inn in Llandeilo. This was quite a long way from the main riding area but was one of the few places with the required number of rooms available.
On the Friday 2 of us rode in fine weather at Cwm Carn on the way down and 3 of us rode in Brechfa in wet weather. Very wet weather! The 3 quickly became 2 as one of the bikes needed a quick fix.
On the Saturday the weather started out much better and it only rained for about an hour in the afternoon. The ride was a classic old style mountain bike route around the stunning scenery of the Gower just outside Swansea. It was a mixture of moorland tracks, moorland grass and bog,roads, farm tracks and single track, including a fine sinuous single track just above the beach near Worms Head. The ride finished with the same route in reverse as the start of the day along the classic Cefn Bryn with tremendous views of the coast and the Bristol Channel across to Somerset and Devon. The last downhill to the cars was a good ending to the ride. The only thing lacking was an ice cream van.
Sunday was a much better day. It didn't rain!! However it didn't make a lot of difference as some of the puddles were very deep and long.30 - 40 metres long and up to a metre deep!
This made the outward leg of the journey along the old Roman road of Sarn Helen much slower than anticipated. After a short break to watch some motocross riders trying to ride up an impossibly steep slope we went to find lunch as we were many miles short of the intended lunch stop. Needless to say we didn't find anywhere. So after a chocolate, sweat and energy bar halt we decided to cut the ride short and return back along Sarn Helen to the cars.
Now that we were all wet it was brilliant fun trying to ride back through the puddles(they were really lakes!!)without falling off.
After an excellent short downhill single track and a walk down an impossible single track and a few more lakes it was back to the cars, a quick cafe stop and then home.
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