{"id":251,"date":"2015-10-11T17:03:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T17:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/?p=251"},"modified":"2024-03-10T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T15:22:30","slug":"cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Great places to cycle for all abilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span class=\"a\"> <span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"> 10% of the UK&#8217;s Sustrans routes for Cyclists are in Wales.\u00a0 T<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">he valley is 30 minutes drive<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/GodreMamog\/Documents\/mill%20files\/Web%20site\/watermillretreat%20Dec%2009\/public_html\/Photos\/Cyclists%20welcome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"86\" height=\"87\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/> from the Brechfa Forest cycle trails where there are five trails of differing levels of difficulty.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">You can bring your own bikes and lock them away in the shed, or hire them.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">The roads around this valley, although challenging, are quiet and the scenery is amazing.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><strong>Ironman contestants:<\/strong> you can practice on the quiet roads around the mill &#8211; you can bring your support crew with you (we have room for 16 people at the mill or 8 at Park Villa, and loads of car parking).\u00a0 We have a bath to soak in two apartments, a freezer in each apartment and a drying room for your kit.\u00a0 The mill also has a hot tub. \u00a0You are free to ride as early in the morning as you like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">For an easier ride, try the cycle trails through the Teifi Marshes wildlife reserve or along the millennium trail at Llanelli, with the Wetlands centre at one end and Pembrey Country Park at the other.\u00a0 You can hire cycles from Cardigan Bay Active at the Cilgerran wildlfe centre or from Pembrey Country Park ski centre.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">Click<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ian-cycling.jpg\" alt=\"Ian cycling\" width=\"110\" height=\"73\" \/> picture for an article written by Ian Simpson about his ride across the Preselli mountains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Some useful links:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudtrek.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.mudtrek.com<\/a><b> Mudtrek <\/b>&#8211;<b> <\/b> guided mountain biking<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"a\"><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"> <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.westwalestrails.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.westwalestrails.co.uk<\/a> <\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><b>Hire a bike<\/b> or tag along by the day\/half day, delivered right to the mill.\u00a0 Also run tours of the Brechfa forest trails.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"a\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pembreycountrypark.wales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/pembreycountrypark.wales\/\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>hire bikes<\/b> from the ski centre in Pembrey country park, Llanelli.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span class=\"a\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbwales.com\/agents\/brechfa\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">http:\/\/www.mbwales.com\/agents\/brechfa\/ <\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><b>Mountain biking<\/b> in the Brechfa forest.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routes2ride.org.uk\/wales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.routes2ride.org.uk\/wales<\/a> &#8211; Find cycle routes and information from <b>Sustrans<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovercarmarthenshire.com\/explore\/road-cycling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.discovercarmarthenshire.com\/explore\/road-cycling\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0Cycling in<b> Carmarthenshire<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclepembrokeshire.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.cyclepembrokeshire.co.uk\/<\/a> Cycling in <b>Pembrokeshire<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk\/bikemobility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk\/bikemobility<\/a> &#8211; <b>Bike Mobility<\/b> &#8211; gives opportunities for everyone to ride a bike away from busy roads.\u00a0 Try Hand cycles, trikes, tandems, wheelchair bikes or take a cycling training course.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10% of the UK&#8217;s Sustrans routes for Cyclists are in Wales.\u00a0 The valley is 30 minutes drive from the Brechfa Forest cycle trails where there are five trails of differing levels of difficulty.\u00a0 You can bring your own bikes and lock them away in the shed, or hire them.\u00a0The roads around this valley, although challenging, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/?p=251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great places to cycle for all abilities<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[9,7,8],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do-in-west-wales","tag-cycling","tag-things-to-do","tag-west-wales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyholidays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}