Good Friday

Right who's in charge ?
Route?
Start ?
Time ?
I wont be out so go on have a thrash

I am going to and up the tumble on Friday leaving Costa at 8am route is 90 miles ish with 4500+ft of climbing at average speed of 16-17mph if anyone wants to join in.

I was looking for a potential ride on Friday but 8am start and 90 miles may kill me....

I am sure that someone will be doing a shorter less lumpy ride.

Ricky have you got a route in mind, maybe up for this one or part of it

Hi Mark

I will post up a route later.

Cheers

Ricky

Mark

Here is the route we done last time, we may make a detour on the way out and climb the tumble from Blaenavon first drop into Abergavenny quick cuppa, then up the tumble the official way then back into Abergavenny for the world biggest baps (you don't want to carry one up the tumble) the back through Usk towards Chepstow.

Tumble

Oooh this sounds a good reason to go and clean my bike now ready for on Friday (am off next couple of days) will confirm if I get a pass

Bike shiny but have to give tomorrow a miss, I fancy one of the following days, the weather looks to be picking up too

I think I have plotted the route correctly

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/7365110

Robin want to do it on Saturday?
I have been asked to do it then so Speedplay can join

Saturday is fine with me instead what time does everyone want to meet ?

8am from costa

Apparently Saturday is no go either but Sunday and Monday are ok, go ahead and enjoy I took a copy of the route last time you went, will prob get over there still at some point

Looks like a challenging route but up for giving it a go

How did this go? Did you stick to the route you plotted? Thinking about giving this a go tomorrow ... what about the coffee stop (where was it?) safe place for bike? I'm always wary about leaving it when I'm on my own ...

Great ride, when you come back down the tumble follow the route into abergavenny you will need to walk the bike down a one way street the when you go through high street you will see a massive car park pull in for the best outdoor cafe in Wales. Safe for your bike you will probably see loads of bikers there.

As in large bikers in leathers who will have no interest in your bicycle. Good route although Chris did promise us a tailwind on the way back but that just never materialised.

No frigging tailwind - we wuz cheated - I even had 8 miles of block headwind up the A38 home when my legs were on autopilot!

As Ricky says, great cafe ....with bacon rolls the size of half a cycling helmet ( check out Ricky's Facebook page!)

Wind turned same time as us!

Rode this today, fantastic route, hardly any cars about, mostly bikers (both sorts ) The Tumble starts off a beast eh ... apparently I was sleeping up that bit though as heart rate was only about 140! Room for improvement me thinks