Trail Dog

You may remember a while ago we added Molly the collie dog to the staff :)

Finally took her out for a ride over the weekend. Little bit nervous but went well in the end.

Here she is not going particularly quick along a section on the Wall trail at Afan.

If you're at a loose end then West Wales Trails are opening their bike park to the public tomorrow.

A short promo video of our new bike park produced by State of flow films for Carms RDP grants, btw I chopped it out of the full video of grant projects hence the slightly shonky ending.
Posted by West Wales Trails on Friday, 24 April 2015

It's back (finally). I've updated the used bike and parts pages with current stock so you can now see what we have (mostly). Please call us if there is anything you'd like to know, I'll be adding more parts such as wheels and cranksets over the next couple of days so keep an eye on it.

Sunday Ride

At last a break in radio silence :) I've actually found the time to write something about last Sunday's ride, and it wasn't our usual trail bike ride at Bike Park Wales 
We fancied something different so set off for Van Road near Caerphilly for a day of dirt jumping.

Really it was a spot of dirt jumping for Gwyn and Callum and day of seeing if myself Jamie and Stewart could be less rubbish than the last time we did any jumping. I have to say the excellent jumps helped us progress further than expected.  It's only around and hour from Swansea and well worth a visit.

Short clip of Gwyn

Local band Lost Tuesday Society (whose lead singer Sarah is Nick's better half) has released the first video from their debut album and very good it is too!

It's Christmas!

We'd like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas.  Can't believe another busy year has flown by so thank you for your continued support of our shop...  

Christmas Opening Times

Wednesday 24th - 9am-1.30ish
Christmas Day - CLOSED
Boxing Day - CLOSED
Saturday 27th - CLOSED
Sunday 28th - CLOSED
Monday 29th - Open usual hours
Tuesday 30th - Open usual hours
Wednesday 31st - 9am-2.30pm
New Years Day - CLOSED
Friday 2nd onwards - usual opening times. 

James Jones

Bike Park Wales

It's been non-stop busy in the shop this summer so even fewer posts than normal, and with the students arriving back in Swansea for a new term then its ramped up a gear yet again.

Anyway we still managed to squeeze in a jolly to Bike Park Wales which has now been open for just over a year so here are some photos from Bike Hub photographer of the day Bam, cheers Bam!

On the climb up

 

Just a small snack for Nick!

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At the top

NASS

Well done to James Jones on his superb 2nd place at NASS BMX Dirt on the weekend. It's an amazing result for him and Team Animal.   All the results are HERE

(Photo from NASS FACEBOOK)

And here's his video from RideUKBMX, there's a feature on James in issue 189.

And.........

…..Normal service has been resumed, and finally the Easter Bunny has been replaced!

So, what have we been up to? (obviously not writing blog posts).

We've been doing a lot of this….

(Please note this is not us!)

And in June we rode the Bristol Bikefest 12 hour race (teams of four although we only had three riders) and didn't come last (nearly but not quite).

Here we are after the race was (mercifully) over.

After last years 16 laps we were determined to make it past that mark and finally made it to 17 with 2 minutes to go. Punctures and fatigue did for us as I'm sure we could have made it to 18 laps. We will have to do 20 laps next year :)

We have a new team rider :)  Molly is a rescue dog and arrived at the beginning of April.

Not sure she'll be much use on a bike but she's a lot faster than we are