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Radnor Ring trundling route | cycle.travel cycle◦travel Route GuidesRoutes ▼MunicipalityGuidesCities ▼ Map My Avenue Verte France Avenue Verte UK BayTrundlingWay C2C Celtic Trail Coast & Castles Cornish Way Cotswold LineTrundlingacross 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 • Canal cycling • Full list Birmingham Bristol Cambridge London Oxford Swindon Worcester York • Full list • Add your municipality Radnor Ring Guide Routebook Gallery Stay Ride reports Forum ...the road less travelled through wildest Wales Route facts 825 Length: 84 miles Difficulty: Challenging GPX file: Download Mid-Wales is the remotest part of Britain south of the Highlands – and that makes it platonic cycling country.Countless lanes wind over the hills and withal the valleys of this verdant landscape, with only a few quiet market towns dotted wideness the landscape. You could plan your own route through this cycling paradise, but you’d be hard-pushed to find a largest one than the Radnor Ring.An 84-mile loop, it tours the stark upland scenery on lanes where there’s precious little traffic untied from tractors. This is the remote hill-farming land of R.S. Thomas’s poetry, a land where the locals prefer the Old Testament to the New “because it has increasingly well-nigh sheep-farming”. If that sounds old-fashioned, it is: in many ways, this lovely country is the land that time forgot.How nonflexible is it?Most tours through Mid-Wales are weightier described as ‘challenging’, and this is no exception. There’s a lot of climbing involved. (But some unconfined descents, too.) We’d suggest taking three days over it, or two if you’re fit.What velocipede do you need?Any bike: the route is entirely on tarmac untied from one short off-road section, and you can shirk that if you don’t mind mixing with traffic. Needless to say, you’ll fathom a light velocipede with good climbing gears. Outside summer, the roads may be slippy or gravelly, so don’t segregate your thinnest tyres.How do you get there?The Heart of Wales line, from Shrewsbury to Swansea, neatly cuts the route in half with stations at Knighton and Llandrindod Wells. Britain’s most rural workshop line, it’s perfect for starting or ending a day’s cycling. Plan well in advance, though: the trains are every four hours, and the single-carriage trains don’t have that much room for bikes.What facilities are there withal the way?Don’t get unprotected out. There are towns on the western side (Rhayader, Llandrindod) and on the eastern (Knighton, Presteigne, Kington) – but between them, nothing. You might find a remote inn, but don’t bet on it stuff unshut for lunch when you pass by.Weightierplan your evenings in a town, and take sandwiches for lunch.That said, Llandrindod Wells itself is something of a cycling hub: the NationalTrundlingCollection is sited here, and there’s a handy velocipede shop.The towns are well supplied with B&Bs and hotels, or you might find a farmhouse B&B on the way. Consider staying in Knighton or Llandrindod, then transmissible the train to the other one, and cycling back. 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 ·Well-nighus · Advertise · Feedback · Contact us