Out on the Ice

Thought I would share some images from our first couple of rides along the Wye Valley Greenway . This is a former railway line that stretches from Chepstow to Tintern .  This includes the just over a Kilometre long Tidenham Tunnel . This is home to protected Bats, so there is only low lighting and riders are asked not to use their lights. It also closes at night, and also is only open from April to September. There is an alternative route around it.  There is a Carpark at Wyedean School, Sedbury, Chepstow. With a short ride down a lane, this gives access to 5 miles of traffic free riding. 10 if you go to Tintern and back. T The Wireworks Bridge crosses the Wye into Wales at Tintern. To find out more about the route check out Wye Valley Greenway  

  Update:- Since writing this article we have upgraded the brakes due to issues.  Read the follow up blog @   Puttin the Brakes On While the Sturmey Archer drum brakes, that came standard on the Ice Adventure and Adventure HD, are capable of stopping an average person, we are far from average people. So something needed to be changed, to improve the braking performance. You see, Jayne has arthritis in her fingers, a result of her former profession as a climbing, mountaineering and mountain biking instructor and it is getting worse, making her fingers weak and stiff to move. The obvious step is to swap to hydraulics, to improve the brakes, given the mechanical advantage that they offer compared to cable operated drums. But options for this are limited, even with the bizarre and even esoteric systems that Jayne could find on line, some of which included running master cylinders from one company, paired to callipers from another, but with no fluid reservoir! One option which...