Two car loads ventured to Bike Park Wales in Gethin Woods, Merthyr Tydfil late July to try our hand at some downhill riding. £30 for the uplift ticket meant no climbing today quite a strange feeling and we were hoping to get at least 8 runs in. Showers greeted us in the morning and we found the going a little tough but as the day wore on the sun came out and dried up the trails. No Expert trails for us today but we managed all the Intermediate and Advanced, only a run of tight hairpins forced off the bikes, we probably would have managed them in the dry. We all had a few moments though and had two OTB's but no serious injuries just leaving some skin and blood on the Welsh mountain side. A long but great day, it took 4 days for my upper body to recover from the pounding it took, would I go again, perhaps on a steed with more travel than my 100mm tallboy, many kudos to Ross Phillips who did most of the trails on his hardtail!!
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