Amblers Club Run - Sunday 11 September

[Mark Pope]

The weather looks OK this Sunday, which is great as Tony Mansell has very kindly offered to provide tea and coffee in his back garden. So my proposed route starts in Brackla as usual but finishes in Corntown at Mansell Manor. Tony excepts all major credit cards as well as cash including Sterling and Euros! The route is:

Brackla - Coychurch - Pencoed - the Common - Bryncethin - Brynmenyn - Bettws - Shwt - Maesteg - the Bryn - Cwmafan - Pontrydyfen - Cimla - Briton Ferry - Taibach - Margam - Hafodheulog - Parc Slip - Fountain - Aberkenfig - Bridgend - Ewenny - Corntown.

It's around 53 miles and we should get to Tony's, mechanicals permitting at around 1215pm.  The intention this weekend is to ride at a slightly more sedate pace than of late. Will we manage it?? See you Sunday.

Mark

[Mark Pope]

PS! Spot the deliberate spelling mistake in my last post!

[RichardB]

Or was the mistake about riding at a sedate pace? 

Accepts not excepts

[Tom]

I will be out but join you at the motorway bridge over the Common

[mal jones]

No good there Tom will have to be by Robert Price in Bryncethin . I may be there but not 100% sure

[Tom]

Thanks Mal-just re-read the route!! I'll either go to the Triangle or Bryncethin!!Hope to see you out

[Tom]

Thanks to Mark and everyone else out today for a really enjoyable Amblers ride. It may not have been so 100% enjoyable for everyone else thanks to my one man attempt to bring down the whole group. Very sorry for that I really thought you'd all heard me shout I was stopping! On the other hand we now know what skilled evasion techniques OVW riders have

[Mark Pope]

An enjoyable if tough and deceptively hilly ride in perfect weather today.  We headed out to Pencoed and across the Common to Bryncethin, before climbing up to Bettws and on towards Maesteg to climb over the Bryn to the Afan Valley. We then sampled the cheeky little hills between Pontrydyfen and Cimla before riding hard for home in order to get to Mansell Manor before Harpo's gang to ensure there was some of Tony and Louise's coffee and muffins left. Unfortunately Harpo had sneakily ridden straight to Tony's from Brackla, and after a full Welsh breakfast and a massage , settled down to polish off most of the muffins before we arrived! Luckily Tony and Louise outdid themselves and managed to still feed the famished Amblers. Out today were:

Mal
Tom
Rich
Jonathan
Lee
Craig
Reece
Andy's Dodgy Knees
Mark P

See you next week for another 'gentle' amble around the Vale.

[craig m]

Thanks mark for organising today's  ride, enjoyable day all round. Plenty of flat sections and a few cheeky climbs thrown in for good measure!
Big thanks to Tony for putting on a great spread (what was left after Harpo ;-) and a well needed cup of tea!
 

[Reece0]

Most enjoyable today.

Many thanks to Tony for coffee and cake. Even managed to organise the weather 😀

[Tony M]

It was our pleasure. Great to see everyone as having withdrawal symptoms from the Sunday rides , 

[Andy S]

Great day out on the bike and top marks to Cafe Mansell
Thanks everyone

[mal jones]

I was struggling today but 50 + miles at. 17 mph is not an amble time for a change of name maybe !!

[Jason T]

Send the trouble makers up to the Pacers for Harpo to sort out 

[mal jones]

Good idea Jason there are a few amblers who should be in pacers now like Nigel as done