Bikers looking to ride in Wales should visit
MTB-Wales.com the site is concerned purely with the mountain bike scene in Wales and their team do a great job bringing the latest news on trails, reviews of kit, features on places to ride, trail maps and vids.
They also have a useful table of trail links and downloads to digital route guidesWales offers thousands of miles of superb riding. Relaxing forests, valley trails, technical mountain descents and tortuous hand carved singletracks; there are fabulous beaches, contrasting with the mountainous Brecon Beacons and of course Snowdonia. In the U.S.A., bikers on their Harleys make an annual pilgrimage to Hollister, "
Birthplace of the American Biker". In Wales, mountain bikers descend on Llanwrtyd Wells, the smallest town in Britain and
the home of mountain biking. The event,
the annual Real Ale Wobble, is held in conjunction with the Mid Wales Beer festival, 17 - 26 November, 2006. Be warned, accommodation for the wobble books up fast and the event is usually held over the first weekend of the Beer Festival. Also, unlike the Hollister festival, it can be VERY WET AND COLD on the Welsh Mountains in November and the weather changes dramatically within minutes,
so you may have to spend a lot of time in the local hostelries, drinking real ale and making friends with like-minded bikers.
A new world record MTB jump has recently been set in Wales by Jason Rennie, clearing a massive 134 feet 6 inches; it was caught on
video but don't blink.
Lastly,
let me use this post to congratulate Welsh road-racer Nicole Cooke, who single-handedly put in a phenomenal performance to take bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
Geraint Thomas also won a bronze in the men's points race.
