St David's day ride

[Sir Fallsalot]

The day started with a friend (Adam) picking me up in his van, no promise of sweets but a ride was going to happen for sure LOL. He was arriving at an ungodly hour for a weekend 07.30, so i was up at at 06.00 to make sure i would curl one out before we left. 
Stopped for a bacon and egg rolls on route and arrived at the meeting place just after 9 full and ready to go. The two other lads we were meeting turned up a few minutes later. They were harder than us as they rode the hour and half up to meet us but they arrived freezing cold as it was -2c, the van was definitely the best choice today.
Adam was leading the ride following a route i plotted the other two lads i had not met before one was from Swansea and the other i think Newport way but originally from Spain. Both on KTM 690's and Adam was on his GASGAS 701(KTM690) and me on my old XR. 

I ended up leading everyone to the first lane as Adam was having issues with the overly complicated way he was trying to navigate the route.
After whipping through the first lane I hung around here as i noticed nobody was behind me, the ground was rather muddy and slippery and the two lads when they caught up were no longer complaining they were cold 

We stopped for mike to sort his handguard out which had worked loose and Adam took the opportunity to work out the bugs with his shat nav and then took the lead

Done a few really mucky lanes and stopped in Erwood cafe for a coffee. We had been riding for about 2 hours but only covered 14 miles due to the sloppy ground conditions 

Erwood Cafe was an old railway station, the track has been taken up but the platforms are still there not much to see.

After the Cafe we headed up onto the Llanbedr Hills where the trails opened out and were far less muddy, but the grass was deceivingly slippery so had to take it easy with the throttle.

Look at the chemtrails, where's @zzzak when you need him LOL

Further on Mike found out just how slippery the grass was when his bike flamed out and he tried to bump it on the fly ended up binning it and had to remove the loose hand guard as it was now hanging off.

Look at that beauty best bike there LOL

Adams Shat Nav went AWOL again and we missed this lane, he seemed a bit miffed when i said lets go back and do it especially because he got stuck there LOL

Then mike decided to swap ruts and dropped the bike again. i couldn't put the stand down to help him so took a photo instead

Halfway along the route we stopped at the service station at Crossgates for dinner bikes were a little dirtier than the other bikes there.

After our bellies were full it was an 8 mile road ride to the next lane and our furthers point from the van. A lane called water breaks it's neck named after the waterfall on its southern end. It's a great lane with fantastic views but a hell of a lot of gates to open and close.

Jose showing off again i don't think he's worn a front tyre out

Adam decided he didn't want to do the next few lanes around  new Radnor which i was a bit disappointed about and if i had rode the bike up instead of going in his van i would have split from the group and done them on my own. Travelling all the way up there to miss those seemed a bit stupid to me, anyhow we skipped them and moved onto Black Yatt which is pretty much the same as water breaks it's neck but with a lot of large puddles to go through.

That's it for the photo's, the ride back to the van was a constant cock up of navigating with Adams overcomplicated shat Nav, he passed lane after lane and we ended up getting back to the van all on the road but it was still a good day.

Now i have to go and ride the route on my own to do the lanes around New Radnor and everything else that was missed to fix my OCD issues. LOL

[Buckster]

No sheep frottering?

[Sir Fallsalot]

Just now, Buckster said:

No sheep frottering?

No they were all with lamb or pregnant, Believe it or not we do have some morals 

[Buckster]

2 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

No they were all with lamb or pregnant, Believe it or not we do have some morals 

Not in front of the children? Very respectful.

[boboneleg]

Nice one Fred, the weather looks perfect but as you know it's always going to be a bit of a mudfest at this time of the year .................

 

 

Wot say you  @Six30  ?

[Sir Fallsalot]

When i was talking to the guy from Spain i asked why he moved here, he said for work as he could earn so much more here then at home and the work conditions were better. He also said he's lived a in few places over the years but he found Wales the best place to live so far and really enjoys living here said its a beautiful place to live, I really wish Pete was here to read this 
He works in a Lab making Enzymes for use in medical research for things like possible cancer cures. I think that's what he said lol

[Buckster]

4 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

When i was talking to the guy from Spain i asked why he moved here, he said for work as he could earn so much more here then at home and the work conditions were better. He also said he's lived a in few places over the years but he found Wales the best place to live so far and really enjoys living here said its a beautiful place to live, I really wish Pete was here to read this 
He works in a Lab making Enzymes for use in medical research for things like possible cancer cures. I think that's what he said lol

I bet he is one of those idiots that believes in the evolution myth.

[Pedro]

Very nice looking trails when it’s in open terrain!

[KAYZ1]

Great pictures: not been the Crossgates for 5 years now with looking after Pat:: not been out even: shit happens.

[YamaHead]

Way to go Fred.... looks like a blast...makes me miss the fun I had on my XR's. Maybe a possible BOTM entry?...  

[Six30]

9 hours ago, boboneleg said:

Nice one Fred, the weather looks perfect but as you know it's always going to be a bit of a mudfest at this time of the year .................

 

 

Wot say you  @Six30  ?

not bad.. i go out in worse mud

[Buckster]

6 hours ago, Six30 said:

not bad.. i go out in worse mud