2014 Monster Trip to Wales

[J.P]

So last Bank holiday weekend Bex & I took a trip to Wales with the bikes.
Bex had been a number of times but I'd never been and wanted to sample the fantastic roads. We had a great weekend, apart from the return on Monday in the rain.
The roads were really good and really quiet.
Plenty of choice of fast flowing A roads like the A44 from Aberystwyth, and plenty of tight smaller roads like the Elan Valley or into the Snowdonia National Park.

Definitely going to go again.

[J.P]

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[J.P]

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[J.P]

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[J.P]

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[steeevvvooo]

looks awesome (apart from the rain) :thumbsup:

[J.P]

It's very difficult to snap pictures of the beautiful roads when you're travelling at the speed limit and looking out for sheep on the roads.

[bex]

It's very difficult to snap pictures of the beautiful roads when you're travelling at the speed limit and looking out for sheep on the roads.

I don't recall doing either of these things :rolleyes:

[Akita Boy]

Snowdonia and the Breacon Beacons are basically two race tracks

[J.P]

And when they've build Ebbw Vale, Circuit of Wales, there'll be a proper one there too. :)

[Akita Boy]

Yes indeedy!

[wezrvf]

looks great. love taking my monster over to Wales. Takes about an hour and half to get there but once there you can kill hours goings absolutely nowhere ! :)

[alan c]

Looks like you had a great trip, and no silly photos :mand:

[MrsC_772]

Funnily enough Andy and I are as we speak in the process of planning a biking trip to Wales for the near future. Andy picks up a new bike next week and fancies running it in on roads rather more interesting than the A31! Just weighing up between Snowdonia and Brecon Beacons.

[bex]

Don't you mean which one to do first? :-)

[AndyC_772]

600 miles and I have to be back for the post run-in service, so there has to be a limit - this time!

[Black Bob]

Just weighing up between Snowdonia and Brecon Beacons.

FFS, you can do the whole place in a day! :D

[bex]

Ah yes, you and Dani where my august bank holiday victims this time last year :biggrin:

[bigredduke]

I particularly liked the elegant regency facade of the lock-up garages. Are they classed as listed buildings in Wales or are they where Dylan Thomas drank himself to death?

[J.P]

That's Lewisham Paul. Oppulant Lewisham.

[Nev]

Jealous !! Roads are awesome. Went camping shell island (Snowdonia way) bank holiday weekend just gone. Went with family and a bunch of friends but all I wanted to do was go home and get my bike... is that wrong ?

[bigredduke]

That's Lewisham Paul. Oppulant Lewisham.

Sorry, areas in London mean very little to me other than the obvious. I do know Muswell Hill a little as my sister-in law lived there & her husband is an architect & still has a practice there.

[Dirty]

Sorry, areas in London mean very little to me other than the obvious. I do know Muswell Hill a little as my sister-in law lived there & her husband is an architect & still has a practice there.

Opposite end, geographically and in pretty much every other spectrum :)

[Pezz]

Jealous !! Roads are awesome. Went camping shell island (Snowdonia way) bank holiday weekend just gone. Went with family and a bunch of friends but all I wanted to do was go home and get my bike... is that wrong ?

Not wrong at all Nev - I was also near Snowdon bank holiday weekend camping at Llyn Gwynant Campsite with the family. On the way there all I kept saying to my wife was - 'oh my god these roads'. They are simply awesome. Best ones were the A4086 and the A498 between Capel Curig and Begellert. I was in Wales yesterday didn't quite get as far in as those but did manage a quick blast round the Evo Triangle ;)