Tuesday, February 07, 2006

A Visit to Cwmcarn South Wales.

The Carnival Upped sticks and rolled into Cwmcarn on Sunday.
It was a great day out.
We met up with a couple of mates from Chamonix. Ed and Chris.
Ed has a brand new bike after breaking his last one at Chicksands.
A lovely Red Cotic Soul. Very nice.
Chris still has the same old Specialized in Stealth Black.
Lap one of Cwmcarn reminded us how much we love/hate the first section of technical climbing.
Casualties on the first lap were:
Debbie. Broken freewheel 5 minutes into the ride.
Terry. An off and a bit of a roll around the floor.
Cham Chris. Had a slide off into a bank in one of the wooded sections.
All great fun. No broken bones and everyone was smiling after the last downhill section onto the carpark.
We were all thinking we could have done that FASTER!
Lunch was a nice fry-up (it's gotta be done).
Then lap two.
More of the same fun and the sun came out. :O)
Casualties on the second lap were:
Mini Me. Cut his finger while demonstrating his trials skills. (he didn't need airlifting from the mountain)
Alex. A tricky root gap. She spun off and fell down the hill a bit.
I laughed at her.
Me. I did exactly the same trick and fell off trail side and rolled around a bit.
As we thought, we went faster on the downhill sections this time.
The last hoon down to the carpark saw the Carnival out of control.
Nicky managed to stack it half way down. He got dusted down by dad and was off again in seconds.
Top Day. Top Biking Buddies. Top That!
All pictures remained inside the camera because it gave up working. Doh!

4 comments:

Delbert said...

top banana, what a great day out
gill

Delbert said...

Cannock next my girl.
We'll give them Cannockites a good seeing to.
(Eamonn will be pleased)
:O)

Ponny said...

sounds like the typical Herts day out I usually miss due to reason 2 ("can't be arsed").

Did the Letchworth Greenway instead. 13.6 miles of lovely gravel cycle path. mmm mmmmmmm.

Even found a 6 inch drop on one section. I owned it!

Delbert said...

Mini said you'd bought running shoes.
I said that must be rubbish.
Everyone knows a Stalker would wear slippers!
Well done with the 6" drop.
Next.......try it ON the bike.