Sir Fallsalot

Back to the ride this is a photo of the tunnel entrance where i had to turn around its the group of trees to the left of the pylon Down to a place called Pontygwaith from there to the humpiest hump back bridge i know of Looking into the Taf again Just off the tram road is this, i'm not sure what its purpose was i think a WW2 pill box Looks like some poor bastard spent a night or two in here Good view from the window Back on the tram road its now the Taf trail only those pedal powered heathens allowed on here so only rode in for a couple of photos and then left. I used to ride it all the time before everyone went green On the parish road to methyr now i cant think I've ever seen anyone walking up here but past 3 families on the way everyone's invading my peace since corvid used to be just me the horses and the sheep The black shapes above the brown horse in the distance are solar panels lots of them appearing here now Aberdare in the valley below here This is looking towards Sennybridge one of my many favourite roads This is one of the reasons i came out today I've had a few people ask me about a few lanes on the TET https://transeurotrail.org/ Lots think it's a route suitable for the larger bikes i've been telling people not all of it in the UK is so decided to take a few photos of two i know would be a challenge The start on this one looks ok But soon becomes a flat twins nightmare Bike for scale Quite nice once you get past all that though But soon goes down hill literally LOL Ends in someones garden And the next one isn't much better looks rough from the start This photo and the next show how in my opinion these easily accessible routes on line affect the lanes the second photo i took in 2012 same lane and location On the way home i decided to check out a lane i thought i haven't ridden before The road there was good starts off ok But doesn't last long surprisingly that was all OK to get through Photo to prove i didn't go around When i got here i realised i had ridden this before many years ago and vowed i'd never come back bloody poor memory, getting old sucks LOL Stuck here for a short while but pulling it back a few few feet slipping it into second with lots of gas sorted that. After that it was a bit more hard work before getting stuck again I wasn't far from the main track which goes around this shit but the red dots are supposed to be the vehicle right of way. You will notice by my route i had trouble finding the entrance to this i should have left it lost, i'll be sticking to the gravel next time. Almost there It was home from here along some uninspiring lanes after that And this is why we cut out or remove the front sprocket cover

He was in there yesterday riding a bike LOL When i was about 10 year old me and my sister were walking through there with the neighbours dog, around the middle one of us stepped on what we now think must have been the dogs foot, the yelp he let out meant we would have left Usain Bolt struggling to keep up with us as we exited the tunnel the fact everyone locally called it the ghost tunnel didn't help either

When walking though the wet end all you hear is water running but about halfway through it goes completely silent all you hear is your foot steps and whatever your mind thinks it hears

My mind can conjure up some pretty scary stuff when left in the dark alone

As the fuhrer of this forum instructed me to go out and ride i did, and as he likes anything to do with choo choo trains i thought i would revisit the old tunnel and viaduct where i grew up The viaduct is called Goitre Coed Viaduct the only one of three left and still in use today, originally it was a single track but was widened it to make it into a twin track i think it was designed by some bloke called brunel I think I've posted this before this is it being widened they just built another viaduct against the original one To get to the viaduct i had to ride the old tram road which passes under it, which was the place the worlds first powered rail journey took place. powered by Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive The trees are huge compared to what i remember walking along here as a lad Avon Taf in English river Taff I tried to do a now and then photo of this But all you can see now are trees So onto the tunnel the route in has had various types of blockades over the years but luckily for me the locals always find a way through, the old line ran over this little bridge This is what the line is like now hard to imagine trains travelling along here And another futile attempt to stop me getting into the tunnel, looks like some recent drainage works has been going on Tunnel is this way There it is Not the best I've seen it And we're in, only about a quarter of a mile long this one That LED light i got on the bike is not much good on the road i can see why now most of it goes up lol with the light off didn't do that for long it was a bit scary Out at the other end, they built the A470 and blocked off the exit from the cutting so you have to turn around This is the tunnel in use and this is now, the same end of the tunnel This end of the tunnel is quite wet and has drainage ditches in the centre so you have to stay to the left or right to avoid them, this end also suffers from the most deterioration You can still see all the soot on the walls here, this opening used to be a little room for the track workers to rest in, i remember it having wooden benches in there as a lad but in the miners strike back in the 80's my cousins boyfriend dug through here into the old pit workings and started digging out coal, it was filled in but this looks like someone has been in there again, i was too freaked out to take a closer look and made for the exit The exit A shaky hand held video my phone couldn't handle the bumps so its a bit blurry I then took the old parish road to get back up over the mountain, my father said he used to drive his bubble car over here 50 years ago, well there's no chance of that now. And on the top, the tunnel is beneath the bike here another now and then, the old photo showing the three viaducts, the one on the far right is the only remaining one And the same view now, you can just make out the viaduct below the smoke That's it for now i'm off to bed

For some reason whenever i read any of Moons posts i read it with the accent of inspector clouseau in my head lol

Tomorrow will be my first day off work in 11 days and since i have been leaving home at 6.20am and getting home at 6.00pm i'm going to make the most of tomorrow by having a fucking lay in

@bobonelegdo you want his address so you can go round and sort him out

Problem i have with safety gear is they charge a bloody fortune for it. anything that helps to save lives should be cheap or free so its available to everyone

Oi i resemble that remark LOL

Its OK Moon is back i seen him post on the other thread

I'm not a tattoo lover but i know stuff that's cool and that is cool ?

Holding a driving licence opens up so many job opportunities in the world today its a no brainer, unless you don't want a job that is ?

It would have still had my neck with a full face and visor on

That's why we ride the bike we ride for the love of it, logic never comes into it unless your Pete of course

For such a small bike it's bloody heavy Pete, 199kg before you start bolting stuff on as a comparison the DR650 is 166kg

I think you'll find it was pretty hot ? but yeah cool stuff ?

My wife would love that but not me cant even look at those oysters

That was in 2013 i was a lot harder then

Brambles are not good on the trail

working all weekend my weekend starts a week today ?

This is a video i took of my mate crossing a ford using the iPhone XR quality is really ruined by uploading to youtube

This is a my new phone's better than your phone query isn't it

If i get a chance i'll be watching it. Travelling on a bike whats not to like, you can keep your track racing on or off road it does nothing for me. We only have the motorbike show here i'll watch it even though Henry Cole does my head in A sample

You didn't read his post then Pete to quote Pedro "all I thought was that the phone would get run over "