Today's Bike Ride

[dominion]

Well Dom I just googled Pompino The bike that gives everything ?

Snigger! Snigger! Snigger!

[Toffer]

115 miles, 8,557 feet of climb (max 15%). 7 hours 43 mins= 14.9 mph ave
Thanks for the company Hanneke
Took Tumble at 60 mile point. Although its long, its not the worst hill. That came later with 3 long 15%ers near Llansoy and Parkend...eeeuurrggghhhh!

All in all a real test for TdG. Its OK but could I do it all again tomorrow...and the next day...and the day after that??

Good ride Wheeze and the answer is yes

[Boy Wonder]

"All in all a real test for TdG. Its OK but could I do it all again tomorrow...and the next day...and the day after that??"


I'm sure that's what you were thinking before the Dragons Back (of blessed memory) and look how that worked out....

[Stagger]

A steady 15m with Mrs Stagger
First time she has been on a road bike, comments were " I enjoy the cycling, its just the traffic and junctions I don't care for"

She did well for 1st attempt. I might have a new cycling buddy

[stevefoster]

She did well for 1st attempt. I might have a new cycling buddy

Bloody ell, redundant before i even start the job

[Stagger]

Bloody ell, redundant before i even start the job

Not really mate. I,m not quick, but if it had not have been so warm today I would not have got a sweat on.

She has a few mates who cycle and she is just learning. Everyone starts at the bottom and she did very well.

[Toffer]

Bit of a Mid Wales hill-fest today. Out for 5hrs 15, 77 miles of hills. Big loop from Brecon over Upper Chapel, managed to avoid getting shot by the military, then over to.......Abergwesyn and you know what comes after that.....Devils Staircase, Gammalt and all the climbing round Llyn Briane to bring you back down to Moley's vomit Lane to Llandovery. Then a chug back to to Brecon.
I need a beer!

[Hanneke]

Bit of a Mid Wales hill-fest today. Out for 5hrs 15, 77 miles of hills. Big loop from Brecon over Upper Chapel, managed to avoid getting shot by the military, then over to.......Abergwesyn and you know what comes after that.....Devils Staircase, Gammalt and all the climbing round Llyn Briane to bring you back down to Moley's vomit Lane to Llandovery. Then a chug back to to Brecon.
I need a beer!

< bows down to the King of the Mountains >

Wow, brilliant ride Toff... Must have been hard work in the heat?

I only rode to Abergavenny to discuss my chainset option for the TdG with the guys at M&D.... Then I TT-ed it up the A465 to the doctor's in Ewyas Harold, where I needed to get a medical certificate for the Everest Marathon, so I thought I'd impress the doc my arriving in my cycling gear... It worked, he thought I was fit, rather than mad, and I have my piece of paper

Then cycled home over the Col du Bryn... and promptly dunked myself into the river Monnow after that... Lovely it was too, having a little swim in the early evening sunlight overlooking Hatterall Ridge... Beats any swimming pool hands down AND it is in my back garden as well... Pitty it is not often that it is warm enough to swim in the river...

Life is just prefect on days like these!

Now sat in my garden, overlooking the same hills, with a beer, waiting for my food to be ready

[Toffer]

Very hot, especially on the climbs, reckon I need two beers !!

Wow, I could have done with a dunk in the river like that when we got back to Brecon!

[Hanneke]

The dunk in the river was MARVELLOUS! I will be in it every day if the weather stays this hot... as well as having a beer, but as I got cooled down by the water, I am now on the red wine