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By Guy Redshaw May 5, 2018January 19, 2022 Cannondale

3 boys, 3 Bicycles, a Castle and a great Mountain in Wales

Three boys (?) aged between 30 and 35 leave the Welsh glacial lake of Tal-y-llyn and head off down a small winding road, which is just wide enough for 1.3 cars in width. This means that there are several, marked passing places for oncoming cars to pass each other. These

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By Guy Redshaw April 21, 2018December 29, 2020 Road bikes

A Hill Climb, somewhere in North Wales, UK.

There’s a place in North Wales, UK, called the Horseshoe Pass, and for obvious reasons, its name describes the landscape as it is a huge rock amphitheatre. On one side there is an impressive limestone escarpment and on the other side, old slate quarries. There are two roads that navigate

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