Wales
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E-Biking Wales • Wye Valley & Forest Of Dean
See also: Wales Heatwave #5 of the 2026 summer was getting underway, a good day to be in the shady Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley, following another route from the Bikepacking Wales (BPW) guidebook. From Pembrokeshire it was a half-day drive towards Chepstow, made easier by the M4, aircon and podcasts.After yesterday’s short coastal…
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E-Biking Wales • Kerry Ridgeway & PEMBROKE COAST
See also: Wales After the Ice Cap retreated around 10,666BC, the best way for a wayfarer to get around Britain was to follow the high ground above the tree line of the densely forested plains, the haunts of evil elves, brigands and giant sabre-toothed squirrels. The Ridgeway in England is a well known ancient trackway, but…
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E-Biking Wales • Coast & Cadair Idris
See also: Wales Riding down from Llandundo Junction in June following the the Trans Eryri Trail across Snowdonia on my way to the Trans Cambrian Way, I reached a crossroads south of Arthog. Ahead of me, water was running down a stony trail which led around to the west flank of the Cadair Idris massif. It…
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E-biking Wales • Strata Florida
See also: Wales I t’s back to Wales to try out my new bike transporter, tick off the bits of the Trans Eryri and Trans Cambrian Trails I skipped in the June washout which damaged my Tero e-bike, and try some other biking routes from the Bikepacking Wales book I recently reviewed (right). I headed…
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Book Review: Bikepacking Wales
See also: WalesGravel Rides South West England In a lineSuperb selection of overnight rides right across Wales, with excellent photos and big maps; you’ll surely find something here to inspire you. What they sayBikepacking Wales by Emma Kingston contains 18 multi-day mountain bike adventures across Wales. Each route includes a route description, points of interest along the route, food…
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E-Biking WALES • the Monks Trod
See also: Wales This boggy byway won’t be most riders’ cup of teaBikepacking Wales guidebook It was only while having a chat with a rider pushing his flat-tyred MTB back to the Claerwen dam car park, that I realised I’d just traversed the 10-km Monks Trod, a historic and now controversial ancient road built 800 years…
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E-Bikepacking Trans Cambrian Way
Trans Snowdonia with E-bikeRiding the Monks Trod Riding across Snowdonia from Llandudno to Machynlleth, lined me right up for the 160-km Trans-Cambrian Way which runs from Knighton to nearby Dovey Junction. For some reason they pitched the TCW west into the prevailing winds then ended at Dovey of all places, a forlorn rail stop marooned…
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Tero X5: Faulty Wired Remote
Other Tero X5 posts Approaching Rhayadar’s clocktower in mid-Wales after shaking off another heavy downpour, my Tero X 5.0’s display reset itself and then the ‘Down’ button took several presses to reach Eco. Next day it did not work at all. There were no error codes on the display and all other switches on the…
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E-Biking Snowdonia’s Trans Eryri
See also: WalesTrans Cambrian Way Wales. A great place to try the Tero out in the wilds over a few days. Snowdonia was the site of my first independent teenage adventures: trekking the snowy Carneddau; rock climbing Llanberis Pass; riding our Triumph 750s through Beddgelert, strung with colourful bunting for the 1977 Queen’s Jubilee. Blue Remembered…
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E-Bikepacking Glyndwrs Way
Yes you have to pedal it (and probably transport it), but once you reach an age when you can’t tear around on MTBs like you used to, but recognise that you must ‘use it or lose it’ to maintain good health, an e-MTB can open up a huge range of trails in Britain’s wilder corners…