Summer Solstice(ish) Run to the sun.

[Scattamah]

[1. Bearbonesnorm (Stuart)] <-- needs, vits, mins and a few nuclear curries to burn out that poor show
2. benp1 (Ben)
3. Artie Fufkin (Adam)
4 burty
5 Paramart
6 windjammer (matt)
7. jay
8. scattamah


Greetz

S.

[ctznsmith]

[1. Bearbonesnorm (Stuart)] <-- needs, vits, mins and a few nuclear curries to burn out that poor show
2. benp1 (Ben)
3. Artie Fufkin (Adam)
4 burty
5 Paramart
6 windjammer (matt)
7. jay
8. scattamah
9. Ctznsmith (Ben)

Stuart, that's a shame. I was looking forward to meeting you.

[Bearbonesnorm]

Stuart, that's a shame. I was looking forward to meeting you.

Trust me, yer missing nowt.

[Artie Fufkin]

Hope you are feeling better sooner rather than later.
You'd better send me the GPX route then.
You never know what might happen now.
Cheers.

[benp1]

That's a shame Stuart, hope you recover quick

Weather is looking a bit ropey for Friday night, but OK for Sat and Sun. I've updated the list

1. benp1 (Ben)
2. Artie Fufkin (Adam)
3. burty
4. Paramart
5. windjammer (matt)
6. jay
7. scattamah
8. Ctznsmith (Ben)

[Artie Fufkin]

Im afraid im not going to be able to make it either. Just had a notification of family friends stopping over and will be all hands to deck...... so my missus says.
Gutted boys!!!!!
Do have fun, don't eat too much ice cream and make yourselves sick.
Will catch up with you all soon.
Have a good un.
Adam.

[burty]

1. benp1 (Ben)
2. burty
3 Paramart
4 windjammer (matt)
5 jay
6. scattamah
7 Ctznsmith (Ben)

[Scattamah]

...don't eat too much ice cream...

One can never have too much icecream. Just ask "Maxibon" MBNut. :)

Greetz

S.

[Roobell7]

1. benp1 (Ben)
2. burty
3 Paramart
4 windjammer (matt)
5 jay
6. scattamah
7 Ctznsmith (Ben)
8 Roobell7 (Andy)

[windjammer]

got my lights sorted,i wish i had bought another six pack

[jay91]

[quote="windjammer"]got my lights sorted,i wish i had bought another six pack [/quote



Are we all still okay for 10pm ? Just checking

[burty]

10 is fine by me ,
looks like a bit of rain tonight but the sun is out tomorrow

[ctznsmith]

10 is fine with me although I'll probably end up in Llangurig earlier than that.

[jay91]

Think me&mart will be there about 9

[psling]

I'm hoping to bump into you guys at Aberaeron on the Saturday. I'll be riding in from the south east Friday night. Similar schedule to you Llangurig lot - ride overnight Friday night; breakfast, ice cream, fish & chips at the seaside; ride out to bivi and home Sunday. Waterproof jacket may be required Friday night but hopefully sunglasses, sun hat and sun screen on Saturday

[benp1]

I haven't left the damn house, still packing, can't find my GPS or my Exposure Diablo. bloody things

Also realised I don't have a spare 29er tube. I gave it to a mate on our last ride. If anyone has a spare they can bring for the ride I'll be most truly grateful. I can only find a narrow tyre tube which I'm hoping will work OK in an emergency

[jay91]

I'm sure someone will have one most people on 29r

[ctznsmith]

Made it to Caersws. Going to have some food and then a slow ride down to Llangurig.

I appear to have a cold all of a sudden. Oh well too late to worry about that now.

[paramart]

10 is fine by me ,
looks like a bit of rain tonight but the sun is out tomorrow

A BIT OF RAIN
THE WHAT IS OUT TOMORROW
great ride though thanks andy,burty and jay, really enjoyed it

[psling]

How did you guys get on? Missed you all in Aberaeron but I got there pretty early at just gone 07.00 after a mizzly drizzly ride. Managed to find an insomniac lady who's baguette and coffee shop was already open for bacon baguette and coffee - I found this place when I saw the full-sus e-bike parked outside; the 70-something lady rider was just getting a coffee! Managed an hour or so shut eye out of the wind in a sea-front shelter to be woken for a chat by a motorbiker from Manchester. Time for a proper breakfast and catch the end of the Lions match then decided because of the dull and not particularly warm weather to start the journey back around about 11.00. Lazy riding stopping for a couple of coffees along the way, one at Llanerchaeron where I bumped into an interesting chap named Gordon who runs a bike-hire business there and one at Llangeitho where I had to stop to overcome the shock of seeing a roundabout in the middle of a tiny Welsh village! Then pushed on all the way back to my van near Llandovery rather than bivi out. Thoroughly enjoyable ride along some new-to-me lanes, great idea, must do it again.

[paramart]

psling we didn't get there till 12oclock because of burty's incompetent bike mech, we had torrential rain and holed up at claerdu bothy where we split up some wanting to get there heads down, and we carried on, was hard going but we made it, we did look for you but obviously you had left sorry we missed you,

[burty]

at least we know not to stop at that bike shop again unless you have a couple of hours to spare .
the tyre had a split in the side wall and it only took him nearly a hour to fit a new one ,
next time I will do it myself

[jay91]

at least we know not to stop at that bike shop again unless you have a couple of hours to spare .
the tyre had a split in the side wall and it only took him nearly a hour to fit a new one ,
next time I will do it myself

At least i got a rest for a hour

[Roobell7]

at least we know not to stop at that bike shop again unless you have a couple of hours to spare .
the tyre had a split in the side wall and it only took him nearly a hour to fit a new one ,
next time I will do it myself

At least i got a rest for a hour

And the wheel was nice an clean after the old boy had spent 10 mins polishing it

[Roobell7]

The plan is still to ride through the night and arrive at the coast on Saturday morning. A leisurely day by the seaside on Sat, then turn tail and head back with a night out somewhere nice.

According to the time stamp we achieved all objectives. Although there could be some debate

20170624_115642 by Andy Wright, on Flickr

Grown men seen loitering by the public toilets

20170623_235428 by Andy Wright, on Flickr

Jay runs Strata Florida climb for the team

20170624_065616 by Andy Wright, on Flickr

We now know that there is propose to the twin top tube design

20170624_084234 by Andy Wright, on Flickr

Shades on

20170624_114542 by Andy Wright, on Flickr

Enjoying a day by the seaside

20170624_131636 by Andy Wright, on Flickr

Who said 'Just one more hill'

20170624_162421 by Andy Wright, on Flickr

A night out somewhere nice??

20170625_060645 by Andy Wright, on Flickr

All done. Now let's scarper before we are eaten alive

20170625_063923 by Andy Wright, on Flickr

Thanks to burty, paramart and jay91 for 100 miles of fun and banter. Not so sure it it should be thanks also to benp1 (Ben), windjammer (matt), scattamah and Ctznsmith (Ben) for short-cutting to Nant Rhys to roll out their sleep mats in the best bunks

In all a great weekend away, with all types of 'FUN" but next year Stu, can you plan for the week earlier in the sunshine??

More pictures to delight and ridicule here: https://www.flickr.com/gp/150583371@N02/3Njya0