Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
A couple of weeks ago I met members of the Ystwyth Mountain Bike Club at Penmachno in North Wales for a ride around the trail there. It was my first visit to this trial and I loved it. It is very different to normal ‘Trail Centre’ trails. For a start it is hidden away in...
Uh oh… I’m now officially signed up to do the Mawddach Goldrush mountain bike race on Sunday March 8th. The ‘challenge will run on a course based on the famous TARW trail at Coed y Brenin with twisty, rocky sections and fast-flowing descents’. I’m not completely mad though as i’m doing it as part of...
After a couple of days of Xmas inactivity I couldn’t wait to get back out and do something. The weather was cold but sunny and there was a freezing east wind blowing so I went out for a windsurf session on the seafront at Ynyslas on Boxing Day. It was fine to start with but...
I had a nice ride around the ClimachX trail just north of Machynlleth on Monday. Unfortunately on the first bit of singletrack a rock flicked up and snapped the little gear cable guide that runs under the bottom bracket shell on my bike so the rear gears stopped working. Once we had figured out what...
I’ve been ‘back into’ mountain-biking for about a year now. My blog post when I bought the new bike ended by saying: I haven’t been on a bike for about 12 years and probably haven’t ridden one in anger for about 15, so it will no doubt be a shock to the system, but the...
I had a nice mountain-bike ride last night, despite the fact that there were frequent torrential hailstorms. It was pretty cold up in the hills and the rain held off for most of the ride but the puddles were deep and the river crossings cold. It did however give me chance to try out my...
Readers of this blog will know that I’ve been doing quite a bit of mountain-biking recently and armed with my trusty Forerunner GPSr have of course been recording where I’ve been. Many of the routes have been along properly way-marked trails at trail centres, other have been in more remote areas so I thought I...
I first experienced the joys of mountain-biking at Brechfa a few months ago when I tried out the red-graded Gorlech trail. I enjoyed that and wanted to go back for more so when the guys I usually cycle during the week with had a trip to Brechfa planned to try out the newly opened black-graded...
I’ve been wanting to ride at Llandegla for a while now so on our way back from Wrexham we stopped off at Llandegla and I finally had my chance. As we pulled into the car park it looked really busy, people and bikes everywhere but I guess that was to be expected on a bank...
Readers of my diary entries on Forces-of-Nature will realise that I’ve been out mountain-biking quite a bit recently. I generally ride one night a week with a small group of other local mountain-bikers all of whom have tubeless set-ups and don’t seem to get any punctures. I didn’t think there was any need to ‘go...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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Traws Eryri Day 2 – Dolgellau to Trawsfynydd
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
