Open to Offas Ride

[Crackle]

I'm a definite no as well. Next time. I look forward to the pics and ride report. Don't let LD eat too much cake, he can't handle it. And remind him he's driving!

 

[Matthew_T]

Pubs, are you happy for me to bring my camera and I will post a post-ride vid up on here later? On the day, if someone doesnt want me to do it, then I wont (please the crowd).

 

[Cheshire Celt]

I'm ok with some pics

 

[theclaud]

Yes, you do that; I'm all for you tiring yourself out, before we start. That we, I might be able to keep up.

Ha. I'm going to be slow on this one, because a) I've got the SLOW bike - mudguards n everything - and b) I've got no legs left after living in mid-Wales for nearly a week. These hills are taking the piss. Yesterday I made the mistake of taking a Sustrans route out of Knighton. It's so inaccessible up there that a Bond villain has clearly set up shop, confident that no-one will ever get near enough to check it out - the front is an asteroid research observatory. Yeah right.

 

[theclaud]

Good grief - TC has had enough of hills alert! So, it's so high where you are, you have SNOW??

Let's just say I don't go anywhere without the dog...

 

[Doseone]

It's so inaccessible up there that a Bond villain has clearly set up shop, confident that no-one will ever get near enough to check it out - the front is an asteroid research observatory. Yeah right.

I love that place. Its our country's first line of defence if a near earth object decides to try and obliterate us and its like an extension on the back of a bungalow Fab views from up there though.

Have a great ride.

 

[pubrunner]

Pubs, are you happy for me to bring my camera and I will post a post-ride vid up on here later? On the day, if someone doesnt want me to do it, then I wont (please the crowd).

It is 1.30 am, I've just got in from the pub . . .

Feel free to bring a camera - I'll be taking two.

Post-ride vid - of what ? Or do you mean that you are taking a video whilst enroute ?

 

[lukesdad]

Unfortunately Ive not been well overnight, so will not be attending today. have a good ride and save me a bit of cake till next time.

 

[Cheshire Celt]

God there dropping like files get well soon

 

[pubrunner]

Unfortunately Ive not been well overnight, so will not be attending today. have a good ride and save me a bit of cake till next time.

Sorry to hear that, LD . Never mind, I'll see you on the next one . . . . . . .

Oh ! I almost forgot Rich has had a cracking idea for a ' monument' in mid wales in october. More of this when I see yers all.

I'd like details of this . . .

 

[pubrunner]

God there dropping like files get well soon

Down to 7 riders now . . . . . . . but there are still two hours to go before we start .

 

[pubrunner]

Pubs, are you happy for me to bring my camera and I will post a post-ride vid up on here later? On the day, if someone doesnt want me to do it, then I wont (please the crowd).

Pics are fine !

 

[Cheshire Celt]

Just leaving now

 

[Cheshire Celt]

Thanks to ever one today for making me feel very welcome I had my eyes opened today but I stuck with it longest and hardest ride for me so far 46 miles

 

[theclaud]

Thanks to ever one today for making me feel very welcome I had my eyes opened today but I stuck with it longest and hardest ride for me so far 46 miles

Nice to meet you, Shaun. Likewise Matthew, Mick the Quick (worra legend - he's beaten Tommy Simpson and Beryl Burton has stayed at his house!), Rob and Dennis. And thanks Pubbers for a nice route. If a trifle hilly and with lots of lying about hills! TMN would have killed you. The descent from the pub was a winner, but I was feeling the uphills in the heat, what with the tired mid-Welsh legs this week and the sub-optimal bike. Great cafe and nice boozer - but if I'd started on the beers it would have all gone tits up. Literally. The ride back to Shrewsbury was fine but there was a bit of a headwind, and by the time I was near the end of the last leg home from Knighton - 2 x 2-mile climbs with a 2-mile descent in the middle - I was counting down the tenths-of-a-mile in my granniest gear. So a ton for the day for me, and only 30 of it on the flat. Actually it was about 99.7, but there was no way I was fannying around to round it up. All the animals in my care seem to have coped for the day without me, although the dogs did guilt-trip me for some extra treats. I've just remembered I am cycling to Brecon in the morning, and then on to either Swansea or Abergavenny. And I call this a holiday??? Sorry that LD, Banjo, Crax and co couldn't make it.