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 [...]

Afan is a great trail centre near Port Talbot in South Wales – just over 2hrs drive from Swindon… but well worth it. There are four trails at Afan, we will be riding the excellent White’s Level as well as a shortened version of the monster Skyline. We’ll meet at 10am in the car park [...]

Five of us met up in Cwm Carn car park for a 10am start. Gary, Pete, Phil, Tom and Tony. It was dry but the ground was a bit wet in places so some of the steep sections were a bit tricky. I’ve ridden a lot of trails and still think that the climb at [...]

Cwmcarn is one of the big name trail centres in Wales. It’s also the closest, being just North of Newport. There’s a cross country loop as well as a downhill track. It is possible to join the two together. We’ll probably do the whole XC route this time though. Meet at 10am at the Cwmcarn [...]