Wye not the hard way round

Chris Barrable · Post by **Chris Barrable** » Sun Apr 18, 2021 7:25 pm

To kick start those who've not been out & those who've been only doing the easy lanes, I led a group of 5 (Dave Vaughan, Pete Thomas, Denzil Lowndes and a guest from Nico's lot (hopefully new member) Hugo Clifford) around the Wye valley anti clockwise which means all those fkkg hard lanes are downhill

. That's not to say there were no sweaty gnarly sections.

My bike blew its excess gearbox oil all over my engine at the beginmimg, Hugo's bike boiled over at mid day & he boiled over not long after deciding to head off home at 2/3 route.
Denzil hit a tree & broke his headlight shroud taking out the fuse & some wiring so starting & kill switch were intermittent. He chose to go home at 3/4 route.
Dave, Pete & I took in some more including Pant Glas (downhill

)
Ice cream in Tintern

then Limekiln again uphill.

Limekiln has had some of the stone steps bashed to make smaller steps and a whole load of apple sized stones strewn about to make the steps area less formidable. I doubt they will stay long

all in all a bloody good days hard trail riding without killing us or the bikes...well not the 4 bangers anyway !!

several walkers some ok-ish some quite sour .

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Pete Thomas · Post by **Pete Thomas** » Sun Apr 18, 2021 7:41 pm

An excellent day, thanks very much Christoph!

A lot of "hard, but not too hard" type lanes - perfect!! (Suspect could have been a been a very different story on the wet...

Really enjoyed myself.

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