A Winter Run to Aberdovey
253 km4h 20m on the road
A winter Saturday, one Honda Africa Twin, and a proper loop of mid-Wales: out from Pontesbury, up over the Berwyns to Bala, down to the Cambrian coast, and lunch in Aberdovey before the long way home through Welshpool — about 157 miles of it. Tap a thumbnail to ride along.
A winter Saturday, 2024
Pontesbury → Aberdovey → home
West out of Pontesbury on the A488, up the B-roads through Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and over the B4391 to Bala, then down to the Cambrian coast — Arthog, Tywyn — and into Aberdovey for lunch on the estuary. Home the southern way: Machynlleth, Llanfair Caereinion, Welshpool, and back to Pontesbury. Coast, hills and empty B-roads the whole way — the kind of day the bike's made for.
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The raw mini-montages — one for roughly every ten minutes of the ride.