Category: Cycles & Activites
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Mountain biking around Hay Bluff
What better way to start a new year than with an invigorating mountain bike ride in the Brecon Beacons? Probably pretty fun every other time of the year too! We hired bikes from Wild Rides, collecting them from Drover Cycles in Hay. We are keen road cyclists but not regular…
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Local cycle routes (& the all-important cafe stops)
Granary Cottage is a great base for both for mountain bikers and for roadies. Last weekend Sam and I took to the roads for a bit of an explore. On recent visits we have stuck to our old faithful route, the “Llanthony Lap” but this time we thought it was…
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The Hay-on-Wye Cycle Sportive 2013
The alarm clock failing, I was awoken last Sunday by the sound of rain lashing on the window and wind howling round the Granary garden. What a lovely day for a cycle round the Brecons I thought! We had signed up for the inaugural Hay-on-Wye Sportive and had come up…
Granary Cottage, Dorstone, Herefordshire, near Hay-on-Wye, Wales 