This was a Christmas ride at Crychan Forest organised by Red Kite Events (10% discount on guided rides and coaching for club members). The route started from Llanwrtyd Wells, home of the Ale Wobble. We did some other routes in the area on our MIOWEOW ride earlier in the year. We started out by riding [...]

We’ve booked a weekend trip with guided and catered MTB accomodation Mudtrek. The first cottage is now full (8 people have paid deposits). If we can find another 3 or 4 people then we can fill the second cottage. If you want to join us then please reply on the facebook event or by contacting [...]

I was at the Real Ale Wobble (photos and report) and had a flyer put under the windscreen wipers for this. Red Kite Bike Fest 2011 Sat 28th to Mon 30th May 2011 at Llanwrtyd Wells I’ve been told by the organisers that it’s a revamped version of the Red Kite Mountain Bike Bash the [...]

This trail centre is located a few miles East of Aberystwth in mid Wales. There are three waymarked trails that all start from the visitor centre café. The routes share the start and finish sections, plus others on the way round, so they can easily be linked together to create a bespoke ride depending on [...]

Afan is a great trail centre near Port Talbot in South Wales – just over 2hrs drive from Swindon… but well worth it. Last time we were there we did White’s Level followed by a shortened version of The Skyline. See the ride report. This time we’re planning on doing the WW2 trail. That’s the [...]

Report and photos from 2010 Ale Wobble. This is a really fun ride event in mid Wales. It’s probably my favourite annual ride, and I’ve been on every one since 2001. The long route is about 30 miles of cross country with 3 beer stops along the way. It always ends with a big drinking [...]

Alan says: This is great for people who like riding trail centres and have never been a non trail centre destination in Wales. The ride itself is 35km with about 1200m of climbing so its not an easy ride, it would be comparable to Skyline…, W2 at Afan or The Beast at Coedybrenin. Here is [...]

This looks like a great event. Afan has some of our favourite trails, including White’s Level, Skyline, The Wall and the original Penhydd (9ft.com) routes. More information. Start location on Google Maps. More information on the Tynaen Theatre (Theatr). GPS map of Afan Monster route.

MBSwindon North Wales Trip August 2010 This was a four day trip to North Wales. Route maps Google Map|OS Map|GPX file. Friday 27th Aug 2010 Most people arrived at the Llyn Gwynan camp site near Beddgelert on Friday. An evening trip was made to Coed-y-Brenin for a ride. We had 12 happy campers by midnight. [...]

We’re planning a camping trip to North Wales. Possible rides include Snowdon, a trip over to the next valley, plus the trail centres at Coed-y-Brenin Original North Wales trail centre. Penmachno All mountain route near Betws-y-Coed. Betws-y-coed Marin trail LLandegla A bit further away, near Wrexham. Cli MachX Further South, near Machynlleth. Nant-yr-arian Even further [...]