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Fred the Lazy Slaphead splashes in Puddles!


Sir Fallsalot

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Good Friday i had a day out on the trails, took a few photos but just don't have it in me to do a ride report it takes so long, this is the first trail called Strata Florida a notorious trail for being wet, these are photos of every crossing of the river and some of the unavoidable puddles on the route and the remains of strata Florida abbey at the end. a good day to have my first real ride in over a year out for 11½ hours and covered just under 260 miles  the old dog ran perfect even through the water 

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  On 03/04/2021 at 19:32, boboneleg said:

Nice one Fred, wow the water looks very low for this time of the year............

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Did you see many others out ?

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I saw nobody all day @boboneleg just cyclists around Nant y Moch area the trails were mine alone it was great, but a few from the TRF rode Strata as well. Funny you should choose that photo that's the one i had a dab in and it was over my knee on the far side and yesterday one of the guys was riding with his wife and she fell off in this crossing he said she and the bike went right under with only her head out the water.

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Here's some of the roads from the ride 

Why don't the pano work tidy here
This really is a great road it goes onto that line on the right in the distance and back onto the line on the left.

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That's Nant Y Moch dam, the road i'm on goes over it and around the res

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Cardigan bay in the distance

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  On 03/04/2021 at 20:28, skyrider said:

if he had it would have all come back to him later

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One of the other guys that was there just messaged me, he said after he waded in to help he was walking back to get bike slipped on the bank and fell in backwards as well he also fell off in a river crossing earlier last week  :classic_laugh:

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  On 03/04/2021 at 20:34, Sir Fallsalot said:

One of the other guys that was there just messaged me, he said after he waded in to help he was walking back to get bike slipped on the bank and fell in backwards as well he also fell off in a river crossing earlier last week  :classic_laugh:

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a damp few days for those two then and not quite the weather for it yet

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  On 03/04/2021 at 20:34, Sir Fallsalot said:

One of the other guys that was there just messaged me, he said after he waded in to help he was walking back to get bike slipped on the bank and fell in backwards as well he also fell off in a river crossing earlier last week  :classic_laugh:

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Going out with those two sounds a laugh a minute Fred! :classic_wacko:

I'd be terrified of ruining the bike by dropping it in water like that.

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  On 03/04/2021 at 20:40, XTreme said:

Going out with those two sounds a laugh a minute Fred! :classic_wacko:

I'd be terrified of ruining the bike by dropping it in water like that.

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I would have laughed my ass off  :classic_laugh: as for drowning the bike i also fear that but its fear that makes you feel alive at times :littleguy:

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Absolutely superb Fred, the Nant y Moch trails are probly me favourite of all along with Bomber Lane and the others around Barmouth.

 

This one here looks like a bit of a ' test '

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  On 03/04/2021 at 21:16, Pedro said:

Pictures always look deceiving when you look at surfaces, but some of that look simply perfect to me.

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You could do a lot of those trail on your GS Pedro, but this one has what I call ' leafy surprise '  :classic_laugh:

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  On 03/04/2021 at 21:14, boboneleg said:

Absolutely superb Fred, the Nant y Moch trails are probly me favourite of all along with Bomber Lane and the others around Barmouth.

 

This one here looks like a bit of a ' test '

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I came down that went up it years ago so new this was the right way to go i was passing and decided to check it out. I did get a bit worried i'd have to go back up it when i came to this though

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But managed to get around it by going down the farmers field. I did think it was done on purpose at first but looks like they are having a tidy up when i got to the end

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  On 03/04/2021 at 21:16, Pedro said:

Pictures always look deceiving when you look at surfaces, but some of that look simply perfect to me.

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Just about all of it is @Pedro i could do most of it it on my Africa Twin with road tyres on there were some steep rocky bits that would have tested me on it. i was after was an easy day trail riding with great views and that's what i got

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