Afan Bike Park is it worth the drive?

🌲 Exploring Afan Forest: A Welsh Adventure 🚵

Join us for another epic Welsh adventure as we venture into the renowned Afan Forest, boasting a vast trail network amidst the picturesque Welsh valleys near Port Talbot and the Brecon Beacons.

🔍 Hunting for Afan Bike Park:
Our day begins with the quest to find Afan Bike Park nestled within the expansive trail network. However, our plans hit a snag as many trails are closed or diverted due to ongoing tree felling operations. Despite the challenges, we navigate our way through Y Wall, embarking on a wild goose chase along fire roads until we eventually stumble upon the elusive bike park.

🌧️ A Twist of Fate:
What started as a promising sunny day quickly takes a turn for the worse as freezing rain catches us off guard. Stranded far from our van in mere T-shirts, with half the trail network closed, we face the daunting task of finding our way back. After traversing the W2 transfer link, we finally discover Whites Level, offering open trails and a brief respite from the rain.

🚴‍♂️ Challenging Yet Rewarding Ride:
Despite the setbacks, we embrace the challenge and enjoy a thrilling day of biking at Afan. Our new Garmin Edge 840 Solar proves invaluable as we navigate through the forest trails. Stay tuned for next week’s vlog, where we return to Bike Park Wales for an Easter ride and anticipate the opening of their highly anticipated A470 jump trail.

🎥 Exciting Content Ahead:
In the coming months, we have an array of exciting content planned, including our first international adventure of the year. Drop your guesses in the comments section below and stay tuned for more thrilling adventures!

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Chapters

0:00 – Coming up
0:20 – Intro
1:36 – First trail
2:30 – We’re lost
3:16 – Weather report
3:50 – Vote for a trail
5:00 – Afan off piste
6:00 – Afan Coch
7:00 – Afan Bike Park
8:20 – Afan Bike Park Review
8:55 – Greta Thunberg green energy
9:45 – Afan ENERGY trail
10:50 – Inside line overtake
11:01 – Afan Whites Level final descent
12:38 – Y Wal dessert trail
13:28 – Outro

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Freshy there because he did this to his Giger can I insert that yeah go on you’ve got it go go go yes yes oh my God whoops what have you got to say about that 100% of the time make it 98% of the time yeah so he did 98% of the quad and

Then destroyed his rear triangle so he’s got a freshy and front triangle and front triangle and oh no that was warranty don’t put that in he didn’t destroy the beep you might notice something a little bit different on my dashboard today this is the Garmin Edge 840 solar so Garmin are kindly

Supporting our up and coming trip so today I’m getting to grips with a new bit of Kit and uh yeah seeing what it can do yeah oh what’s just happened something big yeah it did a blue [Applause] respect the other Forest users like this course hi that’s all right

Oh oh Fran’s natural enemy the post quick check in so in true Fran and James style we have come to our fan like me you are just as equally to blame he’s piping on about something we’ll ignore him I think he said you were right Fran it was both of our fault

We’ve arrived at aan and we were like oh yeah we’ll go ride the bike park guess we won’t be riding the bike park what should we go ride then cuz we might as well do some biking now that we’re here and the sun’s out look big glowing blob t-shirts a little bit

Of history about the area while we were here this was a tunnel and now it’s not a tunnel James do you know where we’re going follow the route yeah but we can’t follow the route because it’s closed Fran told me the wind was dropping off but it’s now there’s more wind and it’s

Coldly on a penguin’s fat I do not make the weather I can’t wait to hear Fran’s feedback when I see the edit it didn’t actually say anything oh my God how’s the climb friend lovely what’s this and is that the bike park down there uh I think we go down we

Do the one that’s more downhill that one there that’s pointing down yeah yeah we just go down and then people in the comments see which one was the better Trail PCO do you want to do the up one then by better I mean less awful do you want to do that one yeah

Okay oh yeah listen to that breaking sounds like FR having a lot of fun oh yeah this is great oh yeah I don’t ride like this much over it’s St working so oh nice tight tight tight yeah I hope jamers wasn’t as fun as that

Are you having fun I got a sick Traverse maybe I’ve not chosen well but like if you can see my Garmin map it says there a turn and hopefully some fun coming up I mean it’s just a line on the screen so I can’t tell the fun thisness but I can

See the left that’s just oh oh yeah fr’s going to be gutted she missed this oh his does actually look more fun I’m looking forward to the complaint she makes while she’s doing the edit if I can time it right I’ll probably get a little video of that oh yeah oh yeah turn

Oh you looking off piece let’s have a rip on It I mean Fran’s going to see the video but don’t tell I hope she doesn’t find out I secretly enjoy Tech sometimes I only ride Park okay I’m not enjoying this Tech anymore it’s a bit chunky oh no I might be lost let’s try this way I appear to have lost my

Boyfriend I think that the squealing breakes made him break up with me he’ll look really happy oh yeah of course how was yours how was yours good and then uh got distracted by a bit of the feast oh where and the first two turns are sick and then it was

Just janky and awful where was that well it’s from roughly where we were just to down there oh I I I can’t think of a better way to describe it than that I did just wonder where you’d gone right so we get to ride the for educational purposes of course this section is

Called Fran didn’t even drop that there’s my ging bleep ploop oh yeah yes look at that peachy number no you stupid why do you sound surprised I’m not you knew are a stupid before we started this ride right now where’s the bike park if I didn’t care about France safety I

Could have made that overtake fortunately he does sorry viewers it’s not good content like backing out and overtake is it no oh my God so we finally found the bike path and it’s absolutely chucking it down it is really not going our way today as you can see finally found the bike park

And the world’s coldest rain has just fell on us wearing T-shirts because it was sunny back at the van half of the um bike park has diversions running the van is parked just down there but in order to get back we’ve got to climb right back up the hill descend down a fire

Road because the trail that you’d normally ride back to the van is closed so yeah it’s not really going our way oh also on one of the climbs this happened my bolt fell out of my dropper post lever because I forgot to tighten it when I adjusted things yesterday and

Then the bolt fell out so it’s now got a nice Garin safety strap around it and a hair band so I think that we are going to cut our losses for the day and try and get back to the van it’s still going to be an adventure we’re going to find a

Trail to ride aren’t we James you are here where have we got to get back to so I think that oh those must be the jumps we did yeah that’s the red I did I think yeah scills run three oh this is the oh those dis pointing tables of the expert

Jump line oh you’re joking right let’s leave this used to be good James said to me he was like oh last time I was here it was really good I was on a 26 though that’s how long ago he was here remember the pwca trail from last week this is

What you get follow for more of James’s touring on bikes welcome back to the fire Road looks like that bit of trail I was complaining about earlier is the best thing we’re going to ride all day that windmill wind turbine is an absolute unit it windmill’s way better

Than you it’s not 30 m all right it’s like windmill ASMR this is the uh Greta tberg green energy section of the Vlog Greta loves I’ve never heard the sound of one before it’s relaxing though I like it it’s very swooshy so we’re following another diversion now cuz they

Actually want to do a bit of riding today look we’re right next to it but also a safe distance there the Fran for scale and she’s out of shot conclusion it’s approximately really big high oh right yeah so we can’t get to W wall through there except we’re allowed down

Here under how long it is until I get in trouble for the inside line oh a jump look oh we found this other one hander nose bug little wi Lefty one-hander oh that was quite good off the small jump for me I don’t like Lefty she’s saying something oh there’s actual jumps on

Here it’s lit oh no I’m in the wrong gear for this jumps are over I’ve just registered quite a while after she said it that she did the wrong gear for this which is very on brand for Fran looks too tight for an inside oh good line

From Fran little light on the break from me oh three in the way Fran oh Fran didn’t Panic proud all Ro open oh no of course that was the right slowest overtake like where the this taking us they’ll find a way oh that was actually fun yes Hope Fran doesn’t freak out about

That Loosely narrow part James has gone to find the way my arms wanted to rest oh oh my God this is like wet bum hole ja oh oh no oh no obviously it finishes with a clim oh my god did you get the wet THM hole J

Yeah and like my the bottom of my legs are like Frozen it’s like the Penguin’s there nice after all the diversions we’ve finally managed to get down here and we are probably well far away from the van actually we we don’t really know we found like a small desert portion of

Trail oh end the diversion yeah we’re back on the trail oh I’m in a really high gear am my friend oh she’s dropped me outrageous right can I catch run before the bottom of the trail bring the speed AR truck ro oh I’m so happy that we’re on a descent

Again that wasn’t very good oh we’re catching up he’s come out the tuck no you’re making me panic stupid boyfriend blocked the inside with a knee nicely if I just take up the whole Trail oh no the tree so there we have it that was not the ride that we really had planned

Nothing really went right but it just goes that way sometimes I lost my screw out on my dropper post didn’t get that on film because it was on a climb what was your highlight of the day was there a highlight oh no there was like we did

Four good jumps they were sick yeah yeah we did four good jumps on a trail that we eventually found after being around loads and loads of diversions so if you are wanting to come to afan well you can but make sure you plan ahead check the website cuz signage is a

Little bit laic about what open and what get to yeah the signage wasn’t the best but you know we’ve been outside all day and it’s been nice so make sure you bring a garment make sure you bring a garment or some form of navigation because if it’s like it was today you’ll

Definitely get lost anyway I hope you enjoyed this random video next time we’re going to go to a bike park cuz clearly they’re much better than this and we’re going on a trip in just under 2 weeks time so there’s going to be lots of fun content coming from that so if

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