Afternoon,
Just bought a new gravel bike and was wondering if anyone knows of decent single track around castle coch/ Garth area? Used to ride up there on an MTB years ago but a lot of the trails were too rocky back then.
Cheers
There's plenty of gravel bike friendly trails North of Cardiff. I've done this route on a Cyclocross bike, it makes a nice hour or two out on more or less any bike.
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I don't think there's much that's worth doing on a bike with less than say 40c rubber, personally. Unless you like going slowly. That route of taxi25s is a fine loop but it's just my MTB route with the descents replaced with road 🙂
In spite of what molgrips just said, he and I have ridden a good few miles of trails with him on a rigid 29”er and me on a CX with 35mm tyres.
It’s hard work on certain sections - especially the really rocky bits - but certainly not impossible.
Then again, I suspect molgrips thinks I’m mad.
It's not impossible of course. It's just nowhere near as much fun as doing it on a rigid 29er 🙂
It all depends on rubber.