Broken limbs and water crossings

[Sir Fallsalot]

Saturdays ride was going to be just a reccy ride for me on my own to check out a few dirt tracks i hadn't ridden before just outside the Llandovery area, i advertised the ride on the TRF forum to see if one or two fancied a day out and before i new it there was seven of us so ended up having to plot a route i already new. Start time was an early one for me 08:30 and we were meeting the seventh member on route. Plan was a road ride to Sennybridge area which was about 30 miles or an hour away on the roads we were taking. Two of the lads that turned up were on two strokes i didn't fancy the road work on those i had explained before hand how much there was they said they were ok with it so after introductions and a few rules of the ride explained off we went.

Headed up the Cynon valley to Penderyn and then Ystradfellte and onto the devils elbow to meet up with the seventh member of our group
Here's a stock  a photo of the devils elbow

A couple of miles after this we were onto the first of the trails and the road work was soon forgotten

This is a bit of a tough one plenty of fails here i was lucky enough to see it all 

Jason here having a breather very new to this stuff he went home early on the last ride with me but he was i'll LOL

Steve concentrating hard

But not happy with just riding the bike he throws it to the ground and decides to do some weight training as well 

Even the two stroke boys found it a challenge

Steve gets going again for the whole of 5 yards and he's down but still smiling 

Andrew on the mighty DRZ400 

And Paul bringing up the rear finding it much easier on his CRF250L than his CRF450L

Stopped for fuel in Sennybridge as the KTM two stroke needed fuel every 40 to 50 miles, done a few easy lanes after but no photos on those . The next eventful lane i know as Lampkin lane named after Dougie Lampkin an ex world trials champion due to how difficult it is but we were going down it so no problem.

At the bottom is a small river crossing with a very slippery base

 

Steve finds out just how slippery it is and Unfortunately Steve breaks his leg in the fall 

 

 

Luckily there was a mechanic there with a set of Allan keys to fix it  

So after the laughter stopped and with Steve rebuilt we took on the exit from the lane 

Almost got run over trying to video fucking two stroke riders don't give a shit LOL

Next up was a steep climb, last time i done it it was wet today was easy compared to then everyone made it ok which was disappointing LOL

 

 

 

From here there were a few more lanes with no photos taken, then into Llandovery for the two strokes to fuel up and a sandwich for ourselves

Heading out west of Llandovery and done a few lanes I've not done before  and onto another little stream which i forgot to mention was a little deeper than it looked LOL

Stopped for a breather here

Jason thoroughly enjoying himself testing the water resistance of his new boots

There was a few more uneventful lanes  with no photos before we were on the route home 

Stopped here on the roman road waiting for the others to catch up Steve still full of energy, when they did catch up the lad on the KTM two stroke had binned it twice behind us luckily only had some sore ribs 

After the roman road a few of us decided to check out the famous motel hill by going down it  isn't any better than i remember this was taken just after Andrew had picked his bike up just doesn't show how steep it is

 

No more photos from here, stopped to fill the two strokes up again in Sennybridge before the road ride home. I think everyone enjoyed themselves they were all still smiling and alive when i left them so that's a good sign 

[XTreme]

Brilliant Fred! The quality of some of those pics is amazing!

And that one legged guy seems really happy about breaking his leg! 

[Pedro]

I liked that. Your XR must be on quite a respectable mileage by now

[Tym]

Leg Wrenching reports will become all the rage you just watch.

[XTreme]

Just now, Tym said:

Leg Wrenching reports will become all the rage you just watch.

We'll take anything that puts bums on seats Tym!

[Buckster]

We should get that guy to join here, he seems to be a better class of gimp.

[XTreme]

31 minutes ago, Buckster said:

We should get that guy to join here, he seems to be a better class of gimp.

I've been saying that as well!

We need a Welsh gimp!

[Sir Fallsalot]

15 hours ago, Pedro said:

I liked that. Your XR must be on quite a respectable mileage by now

I think i have a clocked one, when i bought it it was showing 3500km i converted it to MPH straight away and now its showing 21000 miles i put 10000 miles on it the first year i owned it. After i bought it and the honeymoon period wore off i noticed both front and rear discs were totally worn out, i replaced them with cheep after market discs and there's no sign of wear after almost 20000 miles so now i'm asking myself how the hell were the ones it came with worn out after 3500km the only conclusion is one or more of the previous owners disconnected the speedo. I've owned the bike 12 years but it was parked up for 5 years where it didn't turn a wheel as i was using the 650 everywhere

[boboneleg]

3 hours ago, Buckster said:

We should get that guy to join here, he seems to be a better class of gimp.

Well I'm going to disagree with you there as judging by the look of his leg the Welsh NHS must be tight as fuck

[boboneleg]

Long day out that Fred, Motel Hill brings me out in a sweat just thinking about it

[XTreme]

3 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Well I'm going to disagree with you there as judging by the look of his leg the Welsh NHS must be tight as fuck

Your leg is more hi-tech then Bob? 

[Sir Fallsalot]

50 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Long day out that Fred, Motel Hill brings me out in a sweat just thinking about it

I haven't been on it for years a couple of the guys wanted to have a look, it hasn't changed much wont need to check it out for another 10 years now 

[Buckster]

21 hours ago, boboneleg said:

Well I'm going to disagree with you there as judging by the look of his leg the Welsh NHS must be tight as fuck

Sounds like gimp envy to me.

[boboneleg]

8 minutes ago, Buckster said:

Sounds like gimp envy to me.

Far superior to Bus envy though  , yours leaves a lot to be desired

 

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

On 20/06/2021 at 21:06, Sir Fallsalot said:

Saturdays ride was going to be just a reccy ride for me on my own to check out a few dirt tracks i hadn't ridden before just outside the Llandovery area, i advertised the ride on the TRF forum to see if one or two fancied a day out and before i new it there was seven of us so ended up having to plot a route i already new. Start time was an early one for me 08:30 and we were meeting the seventh member on route. Plan was a road ride to Sennybridge area which was about 30 miles or an hour away on the roads we were taking. Two of the lads that turned up were on two strokes i didn't fancy the road work on those i had explained before hand how much there was they said they were ok with it so after introductions and a few rules of the ride explained off we went.

Headed up the Cynon valley to Penderyn and then Ystradfellte and onto the devils elbow to meet up with the seventh member of our group
Here's a stock  a photo of the devils elbow

A couple of miles after this we were onto the first of the trails and the road work was soon forgotten

This is a bit of a tough one plenty of fails here i was lucky enough to see it all 

Jason here having a breather very new to this stuff he went home early on the last ride with me but he was i'll LOL

Steve concentrating hard

But not happy with just riding the bike he throws it to the ground and decides to do some weight training as well 

Even the two stroke boys found it a challenge

Steve gets going again for the whole of 5 yards and he's down but still smiling 

Andrew on the mighty DRZ400 

And Paul bringing up the rear finding it much easier on his CRF250L than his CRF450L

Stopped for fuel in Sennybridge as the KTM two stroke needed fuel every 40 to 50 miles, done a few easy lanes after but no photos on those . The next eventful lane i know as Lampkin lane named after Dougie Lampkin an ex world trials champion due to how difficult it is but we were going down it so no problem.

At the bottom is a small river crossing with a very slippery base

 

Steve finds out just how slippery it is and Unfortunately Steve breaks his leg in the fall 

 

 

Luckily there was a mechanic there with a set of Allan keys to fix it  

So after the laughter stopped and with Steve rebuilt we took on the exit from the lane 

Almost got run over trying to video fucking two stroke riders don't give a shit LOL

Next up was a steep climb, last time i done it it was wet today was easy compared to then everyone made it ok which was disappointing LOL

 

 

 

From here there were a few more lanes with no photos taken, then into Llandovery for the two strokes to fuel up and a sandwich for ourselves

Heading out west of Llandovery and done a few lanes I've not done before  and onto another little stream which i forgot to mention was a little deeper than it looked LOL

Stopped for a breather here

Jason thoroughly enjoying himself testing the water resistance of his new boots

There was a few more uneventful lanes  with no photos before we were on the route home 

Stopped here on the roman road waiting for the others to catch up Steve still full of energy, when they did catch up the lad on the KTM two stroke had binned it twice behind us luckily only had some sore ribs 

After the roman road a few of us decided to check out the famous motel hill by going down it  isn't any better than i remember this was taken just after Andrew had picked his bike up just doesn't show how steep it is

 

No more photos from here, stopped to fill the two strokes up again in Sennybridge before the road ride home. I think everyone enjoyed themselves they were all still smiling and alive when i left them so that's a good sign 

Awesome shit. Happy to stumble on this.