Gower ride or L2B

[Rouge Penguin]

Within 2 weeks of each other, can't do both and can't decide which. Gower will cost more as I'd need a hotel, L2B sounds to busy.

 

[Aperitif]

If you do the Gower ride, I recommend Tides Reach - Lin and Mary love cyclists... well, they looked after me, a mere POB. The cyclepath is ace and Swansea Guildhall looks like something out of a movie - immense! (My avatar pic is from close by).
Brighton is big fun on the Night Rides - a well-known and modestly challenging jaunt, that gets everyone to achieve their 'goals' and enjoy a slap-up breakfast, with sundry rudeness and banter thrown in for good measure.
The L2B official 26,000+? 'sponsored ride' is not to everyone's taste. Depends if you want to pick your way through people littered all over the place and then not be able to get a train back from Brighton. And it will be raining.

What do i know?

 

[Rouge Penguin]

The gower ride is the BHF organised one. I wondered if it was a challenging ride, or a Sunday family day out.

 

[Rouge Penguin]

And yeah, that's why I was dubious about it. Stories of walking up one side of the beacon and crashing on the other by people who've not ridden in 20 years also don't help.

 

[lukesdad]

Movie ? Swansea ? Are you sure...?

 

[jig-sore]

we are assuming you have a place on the L2B ??

 

[Fab Foodie]

I have a view regarding the L2B and it's posted here along with a lot of other valuable and differing opinions:

http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=44922.msg881241#msg881241

 

[Fab Foodie]

we are assuming you have a place on the L2B ??

This is an old and valid chestnut.
It's likely too late for an official place. If you still choose to join in (and nobody can stop you) just make sure you make a contribution directly to the BHF, say equal to the Bike events entry costs.

 

[Banjo]

This is an old and valid chestnut.
It's likely too late for an official place. If you still choose to join in (and nobody can stop you) just make sure you make a contribution directly to the BHF, say equal to the Bike events entry costs.

After reading your post on yacf about L2B I think I have to do it , probably next year now. Is it difficult to get a place?

 

[kishin]

This is an old and valid chestnut.
It's likely too late for an official place. If you still choose to join in (and nobody can stop you) just make sure you make a contribution directly to the BHF, say equal to the Bike events entry costs.

There are apparently places still left at the moment. I registered on Saturday to take part in my first L2B and there were tremendous problems with the registration process with tales of people being in the queue to register on line for 4 or 5 hours - whether this led to people giving up in frustration or not I don't know but the BHF were advertising vacant places last night and the website says you can still apply.

 

[her_welshness]

If you do the Gower ride, I recommend Tides Reach - Lin and Mary love cyclists... well, they looked after me, a mere POB. The cyclepath is ace and Swansea Guildhall looks like something out of a movie - immense! (My avatar pic is from close by).
Brighton is big fun on the Night Rides - a well-known and modestly challenging jaunt, that gets everyone to achieve their 'goals' and enjoy a slap-up breakfast, with sundry rudeness and banter thrown in for good measure.
The L2B official 26,000+? 'sponsored ride' is not to everyone's taste. Depends if you want to pick your way through people littered all over the place and then not be able to get a train back from Brighton. And it will be raining.

What do i know?

+ 1. Tides Reach I can recommend, and there are some other great little bnb's in Bishopston and Oxwich.

I think you will get far more out of the Gower run from the Brighton one, from what I've read from other people and from my own experience. The Gower ride (have they still got two routes?) can be fairly hilly but I think that it will be far less crowded and it is beautiful.

 

[photography27]

hi, there is still 2 routes, a 10mile route and the 30mile route, i did the 10mile route last year, easy a pie lol, will be doing the 30 miler this year, it is a nice ride round the Gower.

 

[kishin]

hi, there is still 2 routes, a 10mile route and the 30mile route, i did the 10mile route last year, easy a pie lol, will be doing the 30 miler this year, it is a nice ride round the Gower.

I've done the 29 miler in the past (not for some years now) and it was a good experience. Apparently there's also a 50 mile route now as well.

 

[Rouge Penguin]

Yup id be doing the 50 to neath.

There are places, a friend just register and got confirmation in an good due to the issues

 

[Rouge Penguin]

In an hour!! Due to the issues