weekend in wales

[salty21]

as some may know the midlands section has a camping trip including a trackday planned in the early part of july. Myself having never done a camping trip on the bike decided i wanted to do a sort of test run before the planned trip in july as all my gear is new and was curious as to how i would get on with it.

after seeing the forcast for this weekend was nothing short of perfection, i decided to go for it and put up a post in the midlands in the hope i may have some company and colin1 agreed to join me

i set off from chesterfield on saturday at 10.30am and met colin at stafford mcdonalds at 12.00, had a bite to eat then set out for wales.

arrived at crossgates in wales at around 3.00pm (i think) found the campsite and set up camp.

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after a short rest at camp we headed out to some nearby reservoir's to take in some scenery and i was quite impressed with this

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there was a board with loads of info on it but all i can remember was that it was built in 1903 and is around 50m high , heres a few more of the same and one of colin doin his thaaang

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after this we went back to camp and had another little rest then headed out for a hoon on colins favourite road before it got too dark and on the way back called in at a pub for a swift pint and watch the local folk puke up at the bar

we then headed back to camp, had a few cans and called it a night.

woke up around 9.30 this morning(sunday) and decided to go to aberystwyth, the road from crossgates to aberystwyth is probably the best stretch of road known to man and i fell in love with it almost instantly, if your ever in wales you gotta try it

anyways, got to aberystwyth and parked up, took a few pics.

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chilled out on the beach for a while, skimmed some stones etc....

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apparently im only allowed 10 pics per thread so i will do part 2 tomorrow(if anyones actually bothered ) as im pretty knackered now.
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[kitty kat]

Was that reservoir Lake Vyrnwy? It looks very familiar. If it is, it is the reservoir that feeds Liverpool and the village of Llanwddyn is submerged in the middle of it. I had a great ride out that way beginning of last year, just after all the flooding.
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[Charlie]

Do you mean this one kitty?

It looks familiar to me too but thats the only place I can think of that I have seen it.
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[salty21]

there's a bunch of 4 or 5 reservoirs and if i remember right they feed birmingham, this is em

https://www.british-towns.net/cy/level_4_display.asp?GetL3=17197
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[salty21]

anyways, after chillin on the beach we went to look at the castle ruins in aberystwyth,

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had a bit to eat in the local food hut thing which was surrounded by bikes.

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headed back to camp and packed all our stuff onto the bikes ready for the home journey, luckily a passing squirrel agreed to take a pic before we set off.

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[arry]

Good pics

Did you push on into North Wales or stop there? Went to Snowdonia a couple of months ago and the roads were just fantastic, just a shame I was in a diesel peugeot estate rather than on 2 wheels I will go back, one day.

[salty21]

naa, we were a bit pressed for time so only went to aberystwyth, we will be doing a more northern route on the anglesey trip in july though so will see what the north has to offer then.
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[colin1]

[colin1]

great pics salty, and nice little write up

i didnt really take many pics, so I'm glad you did, i think i'll put some on my work pc to use as desktop backgrounds

it was a great weekend, roads were lovely, weather was lovely

good company, and we kept ourselves busy without overdoing anything

more leisurely than driven

a nice little warm up for anglesey

in fact i enjoyed it so much im thinking we ought to do another weekend before then in the peak district
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[kingsknight]

WOW looks so pretty! I worked this weekend but if i wasnt i think i would of gone for a nice ride out!!!! Havent got many friends which are up for the camping part tho

lovely photos with a nice little write up thanks for the share
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[kitty kat]

I remember Deanoet & I going to Aberystwyth for our tea last year, we parked where all the bikes are in the picture, but there was only us 2 and 1 other bike.
Wales has some great roads for biking, Dean led along some brilliant ones in that area. We never had blue skies like that though, it rained for most of the day

Great pictures Salty, makes me want to plan a weekend camping there again.
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[Phoenix]

Vyrnwy dam is a lot bigger, one of my favourite routes into wales past there and onto Bala.


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[Mac_Black]

Very nice guys, I'm starting to get a feel for our trip allready, and if the weather for your trip is anything to go by then it's going to be spectacular! I'm quite disapointed we can't make it out on the thursday now.

That dam is really odd, bet you'd get some killer (literally) eddies from that

[Mac_Black]

And is it just me or is the back of your bike painted in some wierd camoflauge?

[Flip]

Does the camp site have a web address? Thinking of heading out that way with the missus.

[Clanger]

I'm going to have to make a note of that 'A' place in Wales, that castle looks amazing...I really like castle / abbey ruins and things like that, I have stacks of photo's of such places and can never get sick of exploring them...
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[Frost]

They had a rock festival at the castle last weekend, was cool

Bikes are now banned from parking on the seafront, doesnt seem to be stopping me or a hundred others doing it

The road from Elan valley to aberystwyth is probably my favourite in the world on a sunny day.