just bought OS landranger maps covering Presteigne/Hay on Wye also Elan Valley/Builth Wells. Last time I was over that way had a small road map that didnt have all the minor routes showing-theres some hidden gems alright!
Can anyone tell me why the road surfaces are generally so good in Wales? You certainly know when youre back in England by the potholes etc! :eek
12-07-14, 09:49 PM (This post was last modified: 12-07-14, 09:51 PM by nick crisp.)
(12-07-14, 09:26 PM)Dave48 link Wrote: just bought OS landranger maps covering Presteigne/Hay on Wye also Elan Valley/Builth Wells. Last time I was over that way had a small road map that didnt have all the minor routes showing-theres some hidden gems alright!
Can anyone tell me why the road surfaces are generally so good in Wales? You certainly know when youre back in England by the potholes etc! :eek
I've got a Phillips Road Atlas that has served me well for many years now, shows most of the little roads too. Can't be many good ones I haven't done yet, then I'll have to look elsewhere I suppose. Already starting to explore the Marches. I'd love to live in central Wales, but bugger all work - that's why the roads are so empty, no one lives or works there.
Good road surfaces in Wales = EU subsidies?
I swear the surfaces turn from cart tracks to race tracks the minute you actually cross the border.
(13-07-14, 07:52 AM)slimwilly link Wrote: NickIf we come down the 361 from Burford,if you are about we will meet you at the cotswold wildlife center entrance.
Bill, just after you cross the A40 after Burford (roundabout), on the 361, there's a layby on your right. Meet you there.
In this week's episode of Sunday With Nick..... :lol
(13-07-14, 05:38 PM)slimwilly link Wrote: I did and we beat the summer showers, turned out quite a nice day, a few sprinklers ,nowt to worry about , i did over 200 miles .
Down to Swindon,then Nick decided we would look up Avebury,Chippenham and back to Stroud,Gloucester and he nearly came back to Leominster.
Alot of traffic about but found some nice bits and pieces.
Now to sort the bike for touring,change screen,oh and fit FCE, tighten chain,and change oil,, one month till off,,,going to the Czeqrepublic.
Tune in next week, when we'll be hunting rabbits with a grenade launcher....... :eek
I just remembered todays suicide Muntjac deer, it made a dash across just infront of Nick,,a close one, not many hundreds of yards from Nicks house :lol :lol
i have washed the bike and the wifes car, oh what a good boy i am
An ageing test pilot for home grown widgets that may fail at anytime.
So far this year I have been hit in the knee by a pheasant, had a sheep run out on me, had a red kite drop a dead rabbit on me, and now this feckin deer - that's it, I'm gonna kill every living thing I see until it's safer around here :2guns
(13-07-14, 06:35 PM)nick crisp link Wrote: So far this year I have been hit in the knee by a pheasant, had a sheep run out on me, had a red kite drop a dead rabbit on me, and now this feckin deer - that's it, I'm gonna kill every living thing I see until it's safer around here :2guns
That my son is because you are ALWAYS riding around in Wales :lol :lol
An ageing test pilot for home grown widgets that may fail at anytime.
Hang on a minute...i thought yous were supposed to be off on some shopping bimble with slims mate.....to Matalan......Nick's lucky he didn't get some sweaty fat bird hit him :lol
Easiest way to go fast........don't buy a blue bike
Mind you there was some sharp showers earlier, half an hour before i left home, omg, it pissed down, luky it stopped and i only had light rain thereon/
OK Nick, Wales may have less wildlife but you are always lurking there :lol , think you have a nationality problem.
Noggy , we gotta get you over sometime, i am laying up now for a while, got other things on, then going abroad,so will be back on roads here end of August
An ageing test pilot for home grown widgets that may fail at anytime.
(13-07-14, 06:35 PM)nick crisp link Wrote: So far this year I have been hit in the knee by a pheasant, had a sheep run out on me, had a red kite drop a dead rabbit on me, and now this feckin deer - that's it, I'm gonna kill every living thing I see until it's safer around here :2guns
Have to say you must be really bad Nick. I've had plenty of women run out on me but never any sheep 8)
Women have chocolate men have bikes.....
including ones who like chocolate....
