great shots Bob - did a similar cycling trip more than 20 years ago with a friend. We cheated though as there were four of us - two on bicycles and two in a car with the luggage. The motorists had a lovely time and saw a lot of shops and galleries and teashops and the cyclists had an equally lovely time but I remember cursing the road- builders for not knowing that a road doesn't have to be built going straight up the hills and wishing that my 10-speed was a 21-speed and wondering whether it was possible to break pedals if you stand up on hard enough while climbing 30 degree gradients.
This is my favourite and matches my memory of the ride the best http://www.web-options.com/Beacons/content/DSCF1669_large.html Alastair On 31 August 2014 22:28, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > A lovely set of images of some very lovely country. > > I do admire you bicyclists. Never seen one with a weight problem. > My son-in-law recently got a Specialized Crosstrail Sport Disc. > > My wife asked me if I'd like to go to Leeds in July. There is a > conference there that she might like to attend. (The answer was "yes", > naturally. I'm the only one in my family who has never been the UK.) > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> Last weekend I went to a family wedding that took place near Brecon, in >> Wales. It's in a national park and I'd never been there before so I took >> advantage of the situation and stayed for 5 nights, cycling round the >> beautiful local countryside. >> >> I intend to go back as soon as I can on a walking trip. It's magnificent >> country, and the tops of the Beacons are spectacular, but dangerous (it's >> where they run the selection tests for the SAS), so you need to be well >> equipped to go up there - lycra and poncy little cycling shoes won't cut it. >> >> Here are some photos, taken by a man in lycra and poncy little cycling >> shoes: >> >> <http://www.web-options.com/Beacons/> >> >> This is the route of the main ride I did over the top of one of the smaller >> hills: >> >> <http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/brecon-to-ystradfellte-and-back> >> >> B >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
