PTW

I have been told by jugsy to say that 9.30 ride tomorrow is proposed to go up over the rhigos and bwlch at 8.30 because we have not gone up there for a long time and the weather is supposed to be very nice

Cool. Where's the cafe stop? Afan Argoed or Treorchy?

tidy. Was thinking we should do that some time.

btw Alf if we start at 8.30 we normally reach ewenny cafe we a stop.

Ah, right. Thx.

I really can't remember the last time I rode that descent down the Ogmore side.

Sod you all I'm working this weekend.

thanks james for alerting everyone to the offer of a good ride tomorrow. let us know if you are coming if you can. text me on 07747705563. tough luck dave crowley. but i'm sure we will tell you all about it.

Working, thank god.

Never mind the Bwlch and Rhigos there is a 110 km Tour of Carmarthen race on Sunday 10th being run by Bynea Cycling Club (Tudor Thomas) and as at 7.30 pm tonight not 1 Port Talbot Wheeler has entered so i am going to ride the event so if anybody else would like to come along it would be nice to have another few riders at least then we might have a chance of doing something.
Headquarters are Drefach Cricket club you need to be there by 10 am as the race starts at 11

dai abbott wrote

Never mind the Bwlch and Rhigos there is a 110 km Tour of Carmarthen race on Sunday 10th being run by Bynea Cycling Club (Tudor Thomas) and as at 7.30 pm tonight not 1 Port Talbot Wheeler has entered so i am going to ride the event so if anybody else would like to come along it would be nice to have another few riders at least then we might have a chance of doing something.
Headquarters are Drefach Cricket club you need to be there by 10 am as the race starts at 11

Sounds like a good race. But - see above

Good luck with it Dai. Give 'em hell!

Ruddy Hell. The weather forecast looks a bit good doesn't it? Scorchio!

I'm going out at 8.00am so hopefully you boys will sweep me up somewhere along the route...

A bad start, I punctured by the old hospital in Neath (Penrhiwtyn?) but continued on but with only about 60-70psi in my rear tyre so I had a bit of an anxious ride waiting for another puncture. (I've had five punctures in the last four weeks. Conclusion? The all-black Vittoria Open Pave tyres are not a patch on the old green & black ones).

On both the Rhigos and the Bwlch I looked back (you really can see for miles!) but didn't see anyone so at the Bwlch turned for the Afan Valley and had an early lunch at Afan Argoed, which was packed with mountain-bikers, and got home a nice and early. Anyway, a glorious day and nice to be out in short sleeves working up a sweat. Did you boys change you mind?

Anyway Dai, how did you get on in the Tour de Carmarthenshire?

(Holy thread resurrection Batman).

Not directly related to the Bwlch and Rhigos but I had the misfortune to be climbing up The Storey Arms from the Brecon side today. Not a very steep climb I'll admit but it was really hot and the headwind was a bar steward. It's such a long drag up from Libanus to the climb proper as well that I was done in and my fanciful plans of finishing my ride by going over the Rhigos and Bwlch were gently put to bed....

Mind you, I nearly died on The Rock & Fountain. Happy days.

Dai Abbott wrote, never mind the bwlch and rhigos , wasn't that an album by The Sex Pistols ?, or have the past thirty drug fuelled days of the tour clouded my memory ?.

re NMTB...

I am the very proud owner of the picture disc version

(and to think I'm shocked at what Jennifer listens to nowadays).

I'll never forget the look on the old girls face when she read the title on the album cover, I don't think her flabba had ever been so gasted, and when I played The Crass' "banned from the roxy" well!.