Sunday's South Wales Run

Fantastic day for it - scorching sun all day, light traffic and very
little plod presence.

Did the usual boring run from Ystrad Mynach to Hirwaun, taking the A4059
from there. I love that road. Undulating, twisty, with good visibility.
Pretty uneventful - despite the best efforts of the sheep and some
fuckwit in a Renault Clio with his mates who decided to try and take the
same wide line through a sweeping left-hander as I was, but 20-odd mph
slower. Still, a blast on the horn woke him up.

Had a steady run down the A40, taking care not to take the piss, and
kept speeds under 90mph - it's a real plod-magnet on Sunday afternoons,
but the twisty sections can be fun at sane, license-friendly speeds.

Quick lunch at the West End cafe, before heading off to Llangadog, where
you take a left over the A4069 Black Mountain road. Probably the 2nd
most popular stretch of the day. Uphill, twisty, dodgy surface. With a
cracking uphill hairpin near the top. Must try harder on that bit, but
the drop off the edge of the tarmac puts me off.

Dropped down into Brynaman, and on to Llandilo. Shite bit of road, but
only 20 minutes or so, and we took an unknown B-road to head back up to
Lampeter (B4032 / B4337, ISTR). What an _awesome_ stretch of road.
'Three Dimensional' is what Stritchy called it. 20-ish miles of
undulating, twisty, narrow, bumpy B-road. Must do it again. Stopped at
the end feeling a bit knackered from the concentration of riding it.

Dropped back down a pretty average A-road into Llandovery and back to
Ystrad Mynach again.

Total 180 miles. 6 hours on-and-off riding.

Was good to catch up with Stritchy and Fat Nick again, hope it was worth
the effort of getting down here for them. Much beer was drunk, music
listened to and bollocks talked until the early hours of Sunday morning.

Pics here, for anyone sad enough to want to look:

http://ukrm.servebeer.com/southwales/

 

Whens the next one?

 

Sunday. Weather permitting.

Getting pissed at my local on Saturday evening optional ;-)

 

Spooky coincidence, I did that road for the first time yesterday. The
silver MR2/Boxter type thing in the background of your picnic table pic
was there when I turned up:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/preston.kemp/mv/165.jpg

It is a cracking road, & lead to me touching the fairing down on one
left-hander. I was chuffed not to bin it, but a bit peeved at the
scratch marks.

 

Bugger. Only just missed us, probably.

Trying to get a run organised most weekends. You should join us
sometimes.

 

Might be there - usually pass / call in there at least once, depending
on the run.

 

Thanks, I'll take you up on that.

I was checking out the route for the MV group run we're doing this
Sunday, & that road's definitely staying in! We'll probably get to the
West End mid afternoon, if all goes to plan, so might catch you there if
you're around. I'll be on the Senna with 'MuddyStuff.co.uk' stickers on
the screen.

 

**** - is the fat lying cheating sociopathic ****[1] still alive then?


[1] Not Stritchy

 

Simon Atkinson says...

Nice to see grudge bearing is still alive and kicking in ukrm.

 

Aye - Although I look on it more as a long term plan to rebalance the
scales of justice.

 

Don't bring him into it - you'll need a fair bit of balancing for that.

 

I'm happy to remove bits of him till it balances.