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Welcome...........

Shock!! Horror!!!!
What's happening? No mud, just lycra, dark glasses, suncream, skinny tyres
and no jumps! Have we gone over to the darkside? here's Mark, Paul,
Colin and I all on ROADBIKES at the top of the Storey Arms waiting for
Lynda, Basil and colleagues to come down from the top of Pen-y-fan to join
them on the last day of their mega charity road ride from North to
South Wales. More details here...and
you can give a contribution to their charity to support them if you
like.... Overall it was fun to give the roadbikes a bit of a thrash and
Mark as usual did 50 miles before we started, trying to squeeze more etape
training into each ride he does...so he did 104 miles with Colin and I on
77 with Simon (not in pic as he joined us later ) on 50 odd and Paul doing
at least 60 before having to go back for his family. There was a large
group of 20 odd of us spinning down to the finish in Cardiff and very
pleasant it was in the hot summer weather...long may it continue.
The other pictures
show me doing yoga at the Dyfi last week, much to the amusement of the
rest of the gang...it is worth a try though as it does make you more
flexible, relaxing any tension out of your body. Checkout the videos just
posted on youtube for more fun and japes at the Dyfi.. (for anyone who's
interested, the top pose is reclining hero pose or virasana and the
lower one is wide spread standing pose or prasarita padottanasana or so
the yoga book tells me...) A really good weekend with the photos here
even the weather was kind which was
very unusual for this route.
Rides are organised every
weekend on Saturday. The
rides start at 8:30 am from the car park in
Nelson (follow the link on the left for a
map) and cover most parts of the Valleys, with forays further afield to
the Brecon Beacons, Black Mountains, Forest of Dean and Mid Wales.
The Forest Enterprise tracks at Cwmcarn and Afan Argoed are often
visited, and we organise trips to North Wales to sample the Coed-y-Brenin,
Nant-yr-Arian and Bettws-y-Coed routes during the summer months.
The Club attends various organised events
every year, and provides
support to club members thanks to the help of a Sportlot grant which has
allowed the Club to purchase a set of bike tools and a pop-up gazebo to
allow bike servicing in the dry, whatever the weather. If we've gone
camping to the event, we have a club barbeque the evening before the race
and have a good time.
The Club has also organised longer
trips to the Lake District (Tim Woodcock's Lakeland Loop), the Sierra
Nevadas in Spain (check out the excellent http://www.switch-backs.com
to see where we went), Morzine/Les Gets and last year we went to Les Arcs.
We try to offer a varied mountain biking experience
that means the weekend ride is most definitely the high spot of your
week.....why not come along and give it a go?
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View from High Street, Lake District

Top of the Rhondda

The
Black Mountains
Enjoying a snack,
Coed-y-Brenin

River
crossing, Sarn Helen Roman Road 
The
Sierra Nevadas, Spain |