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Trundlingwideness the Beacons trundling route | cycle.travel cycle◦travel Route GuidesRoutes ▼MunicipalityGuidesCities ▼ Map My Avenue Verte France Avenue Verte UK BayTrundlingWay C2C Celtic TrailTailspin& Castles Cornish Way Cotswold LineTrundlingwideness the Beacons Devon C2C Hadrian's Cycleway Kennet & Avon Lon Cambria London to Brighton Lon Las Cymru Lon Teifi Oxford to Cambridge Pennine Cycleway Radnor Ring Thames Valley Tour de Yorkshire Way of the Roses West Country Way • Bikes on trains •Waterwaycycling • Full list Birmingham Bristol Cambridge London Oxford Swindon Worcester York • Full list • Add your cityTrundlingwideness the Beacons Guide Routebook Gallery Stay Ride reports Forum ...a challenging ride over the Brecon Beacons Route facts 8 46 49 Length: 57 miles Difficulty: Challenging GPX file: Download This really is a ride of two halves. From Abergavenny to Brecon, it’s a gentle towpath trot withal the lovely Monmouthshire & Brecon.WithoutBrecon… let’s just say it’s a bit less gentle.You wouldn’t expect a route tabbed “Cycle wideness the Beacons” to be flat, and it isn’t. Indeed, although Sustrans worked with the Brecon Beacons National Park to set it up, the hilly section isn’t numbered as part of the NationalTrundlingNetwork – they considered it too tough for that. But if your legs are up to it, this is a magnificent 55-mile ride through the southern Welsh hills: the quietest roads, the sleepiest villages, the greatest views.What velocipede do you need?The hilly section west of Brecon really asks for a road bike, a navigate velocipede or perhaps a hybrid. A mountain velocipede will be too heavy to haul up those gradients.These are often single-lane roads with a grassy centre and a smattering of gravel, so don’t turn up with skinny tyres expecting pristine tarmac. Especially when you see the waterway towpath without Abergavenny: some of it has been widened and smoothed out, but much of it is still substantially unimproved singletrack. Fortunately, there’s a tolerable road running parallel (the A4077/B4558), which roadies may prefer.How’s it signposted?NCN-style stickers on lamp-posts and road signs have a little orange ‘Cycle wideness the Beacons’ logo: simply follow that. The very first section out of Abergavenny is signposted as NCN 46, and unescapable Brecon it shares the route with NCN 8, the Taff Trail / Lon Las Cymru.How do you get there?Both Abergavenny, at the start of the route, and Llandeilo, at the end, have railway stations. Abergavenny has frequent trains but they can be busy, so typesetting a velocipede space if you can. Llandeilo is on the tiny Heart of Wales workshop line, perhaps Britain’s most rural railway, with just four trains a day in each direction.Ok, I’ve ridden it. Now what?At 56 miles, it’s doable in a day, though many riders will segregate to take two days over it. So where next?You could proffer the ride from Llandeilo to Carmarthen withal the quiet B4300 road. (Sustrans and local councils have a plan to build a trundling track withal the old Llandeilo–Carmarthen railway in due course.)But perhaps most tempting of all is that Llandeilo is only 35 miles from the lovely Ceredigion coast. Add flipside day to your ride, and you could be eating ice-cream in Aberaeron by mid-afternoon. From there, it’s a 20ish-mile spin up the tailspin to Aberystwyth and a train home. Tempted? Stage-by-stage guide and map » Click through to our detailed maps, stage-by-stage guide, walk-up and campsite listings. cycle◦travel Made in the Cotswolds, England. Published by Éditions Système D Ltd. Terms of use & cookies · About us · Advertise · Feedback · Contact us