I'm planning a weekend ride for end Oct/early Nov in and around Elan valley. Does anyone know what the trail running north from Gors-Wen to Llanwyrthwl is like? Here
https://www.streetmap.co.uk/map?x=29525 ... 4&lm=0.com
We'll be riding gravel bikes with biggish (47mm) tyres.
Thanks!
Route advice near Elan Valley
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Re: Route advice near Elan Valley
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/932067
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2016318
Just the odd tussock to have fun with by the look of it
. And only a mile of HaB if it gets too much .
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2016318
Just the odd tussock to have fun with by the look of it
. And only a mile of HaB if it gets too much ."My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP
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The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
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Re: Route advice near Elan Valley
Thanks, I'd forgotten about Geograph. What a great resource!
Looks OK to me.
Looks OK to me.
Re: Route advice near Elan Valley
I've walked it on a road bike 
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Re: Route advice near Elan Valley
It featured on the 2017 BB200 going north-south, it was mildly boggy on the very top but still mostly rideable. Looking at Strava it took me 23 minutes to do the 2.5km "unsurfaced" section and I wasn't hammering it.
Re: Route advice near Elan Valley
I have ridden it on a Thorn touring bike years ago and it was fine. A bit rutted and boggy in bits… but fine… but it was a while ago. It was much better than bit of the B 4358 race track that we rode afterwards.