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[Closed] £16m funding to boost 'adventure tourism' across Wales

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north+east+wales-10632332

Sounds good - and a classic photo of a probable faceplant in the article too1


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 10:56 am
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Happy days...more rider coming here the merrier I say 😆


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 11:51 am
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what an utterly bizarre image to chose to accompany the article.


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 11:53 am
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Anybody know what's planned for Afan?


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 11:54 am
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That is VERY cool indeed!


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 11:56 am
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All good stuff planned for Gethin sounds really interesting plus some more trails at Cwmcarn too, I half way between the two as well 8)


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 12:38 pm
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Brilliant. I'd love to see a 20m+ trail begin and end at Llandegla but take in some of the surrounding hills. Be nice if penmachno saw some of the cash though...


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 12:49 pm
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In south Wales, more than £5m will be spent trying to create the "best all-round, purpose-built trail centre in the UK" at Afan Forest Park in Neath Port Talbot.
The project will also include a "world-leading commercial bike park" in the Heads of the Valley area at Gethin Woods in Merthyr Tydfil.

Sounds good to me.


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 1:14 pm
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loving the face plant picture 😀


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 1:25 pm
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£16 million to build a few trail centres 😯
How much does a truck load of stone and a week's hire of a mini digger cost ?
I'd expect both ends of Offa's Dyke joined up by a full length coastal path for that money.


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 2:18 pm
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Sounds wicked, I love Wales anyway and this will make it even better and there will still be wild untouched stuff for people to ride or walk on.

I hope there will be training sessions on being pleasant to visitors?


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 2:45 pm
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Karinofnine cafe staff by any chance?


 
Posted : 15/07/2010 2:46 pm
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Llandegla staff surely not. Bloke in the shop fixed my lads broken peddle and wouldn't accept payment only a donation to the air ambulance.
Top bloke.
Girls in the caf top notch also! if only I was 20 years younger!!


 
Posted : 17/07/2010 5:17 am
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Will this also include some sort of security to stop the locals nicking our bikes?


 
Posted : 17/07/2010 8:06 am
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Will be interesting to see what the dee valley link to corwen will be....its all farmland!!!!


 
Posted : 17/07/2010 11:48 am
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Riding mountain bikes through farmland. 😯
The very idea.


 
Posted : 18/07/2010 12:30 pm