Calnefornia to Snowdonia

Last weekend 7 of us headed from Wiltshire to North Wales for what promised to be a good weekend on the bikes.

Friday, 2 of the gang went straight to Coed y Brenin while the rest of us headed for Cadair Idris and a grueling climb in temperatures just shy of 30C.

It was hot and hard work but the views were staggering and the descent simply brilliant!

This was the second time for me and I was keen to check out a short bridleway on the return leg and its fair to say it didn’t disappoint!

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Putting myself in the firing line for a few photos… #cadairidris #snowdonia #findyourepic #wales #mtb #gonemountainbiking #calnefornia / taken with @gopro Session / @fry_craig @leigh84fry @ian.harry @shaun.fish.33

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Saturday saw 7 tired campers hit a muggy Penmachno at an agreed later time, that almost back fired on us!  One of the guys had a free hub issue and we didn’t leave any time to get to a bike shop on Saturday evening.

Luckily, we bumped into Tom Hutton (MTB Guiding) at Coed y Brenin who arranged to meet us Sunday morning and loan us a wheel. What a gent!

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Friday afternoon Big Mountain Ride in Snowdonia. #cadairidris #snowdonia #wales #findyourepic #ridemoremtb #mountainbiking #mtb @shaun.fish.33 @leigh84fry @fry_craig @ian.harry

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So Sunday, all of us made our way around the Dyfi Forest, around the Climach-X trail north of Machynlleth where we rode the epic final descent, but not before exploring some of the Welsh Gravity Enduro stages still widely used but not sign posted in the forest.

We had a cracking weekend and I want to get back to the Dyfi Forest ASAP..

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Atop Cadair Idris with the lads from Calnefornia… #mtb #calnefornia #ridemoremtb #snowdonia #gopro @gopro #mountainbiking #selfie #ridemorebikes #bikesarefun #bikesareawesome // with @shaun.fish.33 @ian.harry @fry_craig @leigh84fry

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In and Out of the Saddle

Bridge over the River Wye

Its been a month since I posted on here! That’s not good, but all it means is I’ve been busy. Unfortunately I haven’t been nearly busy enough riding bikes as I’ve been training to run a half marathon.  I know!

A South Wales Adventure

Jay Mud (Mudtrek) testing the water depth

Sometimes things don’t go quite how you planned them – but that’s OK. This is what happened on Sunday when I “planned” a route all from the comfort of my computer chair, and took more than a dozen riders from MB Swindon and one from Mudtrek with me along for an adventure in South Wales.

Return to the Iron Mountain

Guiding duties for MB Swindon at the weekend around the ever amazing (for many reasons) Blaenavon…  So here’s the write up I did for the club website:

Return To The Iron Mountain

For some bizarre reason people started to turn up just after 9am for a 10am ride. Its possible it had something to do with them camping in the Brecon Beacons the night before and being up early but I’d like to think they were equally as eager to get on the ride.

Sometimes very few words are required

Its hard describe a great day out on the bike sometimes so here are some pictures instead of a cracking day out in North Wales doing the Pont Scethin loop.

And a video too..