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The timing just seemed right. The buttercups will be out, the kingfishers will be singing in the fields, the rabbits will be larking in the meadows. Romance is in the air. Time to give the Tiger its head and rip the sh*t out of the tarmac.
The venue is the Brecon Beacons national park and the parts of rural Herefordshire that your mummy told you never to visit. There's satanists and child molesters in them there hills.
Be that as it may, this one brings together a few roads that we know and love as well as a few less trodden ones. We will meander gently along tight little hedgerowed lanes, sweeping A roads, over moorland tracks through firing ranges and past quaint abandoned chapels.
So there will be lots of good opportunities to warm the tyres and good stopping points to discuss the meaning of life and the quality of mercy.
Starting point is Chepstow castle car park at 9.45.
A466 via Tintern to Monmouth
A40 to Ross on Wye
Anyone wanting to join us at Ross, meet at the petrol station on the A40/A49 junction (as in the past) at 10.30.
A49 towards Hereford, turn off onto
B4521 to Abergavenny
Stop at Abergavenny bus station/bikers' stop for a well earned coffee and kitkat chunky
A470 to Brecon
B4520 via Upper Chapel to Builth Wells - lunch somewhere here?
A470 to Llyswen, then Glasbury
B4350 to Hay on Wye
B4348 via Peterchurch & Much Dewchurch to Ross on Wye.
And home.
About 138 miles all in.
Looking for a good turn out on this one. Lots of people within easy reach and Jim has offered to bring a posse over from the south east. If we can get a crew from oop north again (Craig, Robbie etc), a healthy south west contingent and a bunch from the Midlands (are there any Tigers there?), it'll start the season nicely.
Let me know if you can make it so we can prepare the little old lady in the ice cream van on the moors above Brecon.
I understand the 'I attended a UK Tiger Run in 2005' medals are being smelted in the far east by sweat shop labour even as we tap away, and I know you all get as excited as I do about these mementos of our great trips out.
We look forward to seeing the old regulars, the old irregulars (where were you in 2004, Lindsay, Norm?), the stalwarts, the occasionals and the newbies. You all mean a lot to the management, however often you turn out. You will be welcomed at Chepstow with a vacuum flask of hot soup to slot into your new Touratech GPS and drink holder*.
*While stocks last.
Let me know on here if you can come and we'll wait for you. Ring or text me on 07973 149288 if you're going to be late.
Cheers,
Rich
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