Welsh motorbike tour

[grumpyoldjanner]

When you have an unexpected week off work what better than an impromptu trip round Wales?  Averaged a touch over 200 miles a day, which is more than enough tucked up on a sports bike! Took a clockwise route travelling up the western side of Mid Wales on the way out taking in the Black Mountain Pass, Abergwesyn Pass and the Elan Valley. Only rain during the trip thankfully started about 5 minutes after arriving at my accommodation in  Snowdonia, where it proceeded to chuck it down for the evening. Thankfully it had cleared up by the following morning so had dry weather to take in the Pen-y-Pass into Llanberis and then loop round the top edge of Snowdonia and the Evo triangle before heading back south down the eastern side of Mid Wales. Final day saw me escape Wales via a blast through the Wye Valley and then back to the West Country via the A39 North Atlantic Highway and finally across Dartmoor to get back home. 

 

Whilst Snowdonia/North Wales had amazing roads and the better scenery it also suffered from a lot more traffic. Couldn't enjoy a lot of the roads as spent most the time weaving through queues of traffic caused by Grockle boxes. Every time you made it through one queue you got 5 minutes of open road if you were lucky before arriving at the back of the next queue. Whilst Mid Wales lacked the dramatic mountain passes it still had some amazing roads through the valleys and a lot of the time I had them to myself 👼

 

 

Enjoying the view from the top of the Black Mountains

 

 

At the start of the Abergwesyn Pass

 

 

Midway through the Abergwesyn Pass

 

 

Deep in the Elan Valley

 

 

B4391 Llangynog

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 27, 2021 by grumpyoldjanner

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Nice pics

 

Brings back good memories of many road trips around Wales in the Zeds and before the evo triangle got so popular and speed cameras were introduced. 

 

Yes the shed tuggers are painful - shame the Welsh police do introduce the same requirement as the Scots