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  1. time to come out of hiding for a while...

    been doing a lot of riding of late but last w/e was an easy trip, a stag w/e in Brecon based around
    a ride on the Saturday.

    Weather was stunning, clear autumn day with the wind having dropped. An early start meant about 1030
    due to the usual issues with groups and mechanicals.

    The lanes above Brecon were just cut so thorns in the road meant a quick stop for seven punctures on
    eight bikes. After Tal-y-Bont the climb sorted them out with a few struggling I got a chance to grab
    a few pics. The descent off the other side didn't excite me, looked long and fat on the map but
    nothing really to get you going.

    The return through the gap was delyaed by one of the group lending his pump to moto-crosser
    (f**king what?!) but the roman road had its moments and the rubbly descent off the other side
    caused some spills.

    The most risky element, a saturday night out in a welsh market town when England had just
    beaten Turkey...

  2. John Atkinson said:

    time to come out of hiding for a while...

    Good to see you back.

    Quoted message said:

    been doing a lot of riding of late but last w/e was an easy trip, a stag w/e in Brecon based
    around a ride on the Saturday.

    Sounds fun except for all the flats. Pisses me off that its drier in Wales than where *I* am!

    --
    -BB- To reply to me, drop the attitude (from my e-mail address, at least)

  3. Brecon was very pretty on Saturday. Glad you had fun.

    Did you happen to see a bunch of people in Land Rovers and Suzuki SJ's? Me and Huw were in the very
    area (did the Gap late afternoon) on Saturday. Saw some MTBers at various points. Having spent
    hours fannying around with these big unnecessary lumps of metal, the sight of an MTB made me feel
    rather jealous.

    Still, nice to see how the other half live.

    Andy Chequer

  4. "John Atkinson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    time to come out of hiding for a while...

    Who are you?

    JD

  5. "Andy Chequer" <andy@(removethisbittosend)thisisasparagus.com> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Brecon was very pretty on Saturday. Glad you had fun.

    Did you happen to see a bunch of people in Land Rovers and Suzuki SJ's? Me and Huw were in the
    very area (did the Gap late afternoon) on Saturday.


    Saw

    Quoted message said:

    some MTBers at various points. Having spent hours fannying around with


    these

    Quoted message said:

    big unnecessary lumps of metal, the sight of an MTB made me feel rather jealous.

    Still, nice to see how the other half live.

    Andy Chequer

    yes we did, two groups coming down towards the forest at Tal-y-Bont at about 1pm while we were
    coming up (8 of us).

    saw two big groups of 'crossers' on at the bottom of the road up to the gap but nobody on the gap.
    Went over there at about 5pm.

    stop fannying around with big unnecessary lumps of metal!

  6. Quoted message said:

    A sad, sad little puppet with a balloon for a head drawled....

    Quoted message said:

    Who are you?

    JD

    you been fishing recently?

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