Page to contact your Biking Networkers!

I have been looking at ways of enhancing the Biking Networking group, and I have created a linked member's page to allow you to contact each other more easily, whether for business, networking or more importantly for just seeing if anyone is up for a bike ride!

The webpage allows members to display their usual business card / contact details and a brief profile. I will not put your details on the site unless you ask me to do so.

Only members who are on the Biking Networking database will be able to view this, and in order to do so you will need to register with a google password (it takes about 1 minute and is very straightforward - an email will explain what to do).

If you would like your details putting on the website, please email me your basic business card / contact information and brief profile. Please do not exceed 60 words.

Betws-Y-Coed - Penmachno update

Thanks for coming along at the weekend - I hope you enjoyed it, and for those who rode on the Sunday....we made it back alive without using Mountain Rescue - hurrah! [...it was epic....] Here are a few photos and a couple of videos. I think Dean (in red, below) is still on a high after the last section of the Marin trail

The Penmachno riders are just grateful to have survived the night...!

Check out the last photo...in the dark after crossing fields, climbing over fences and knocking on doors to ask directions...! Its not that we were lost in the dark.....we just didn't know where we had come from, where we were or which way to go!

[12.08 Update: I went back to finish Penmachno on 1 December with "the Professor" and a couple of local riders - it was icy but we finished. On our previous attempt, we had made it all the way round apart from a 500 m climb and a technical 2km final descent section. p.s. The Professor's bog has now been surfaced, much to his disgust! . John.]

A special thank you to Glenwood B&B in Betws-Y-Coed where we stayed. They were fantastic hosts, cooked a huge breakfast, and also very kindly returned Alice's hire bike to the shop on Monday morning... (our Epic ride finished way after the hire shop had closed and we had no mobile reception on the trail). Thanks also to the the bike hire shop Ultimate Outdoors for their patience (sadly, I think they are the only bike shop left in Betws-Y-Coed).

Penmachno MTB circuit information:

Please note that we have now discovered that if you do loop 1 you can then either return to the car park or continue round loop 2. If you combine loop 1 and loop 2, the circuit is 30km, and returns you to the car park. The last 2 descent sections of loop 2 are the most technical, fast tight singletrack with rocky drop-offs (6inch to 1 foot), switchbacks, and steep sections. Great fun, but much tougher than the rest of it. The whole circuit is a lot more undulating and contouring than Marin, and hence slower. I reckon an average rider would need 4-5 hours including a bit of chatting and waiting.