tour reports » Day Report - Rhayader Loop

Not so much a tour report, as a day ride report/comment. Fantastic day on the bike on Saturday, easily best weather of the year so far, and did my longest day trip on the RS since getting it, just shy of 300 miles. Wunderlich bars and Puig screen made the ride all day comfortable.

Took a blast along the A44 to Rhayader and then a loop as below. Been over the mountain road towards to Cwmystwyth and Devils Bridge a few times, but had never been along the B4518 from Llanbrynmair to Llandiloes before, lovely ride, great stopping point for a packed lunch overlooking Clywedog Reservoir.

Lots of bikes out, one thing I did notice was there seemed to be a lot of Yamaha Tenere / Ducati Desert X type bikes on the road.

And the petrol station in Machynlleth has been knocked down, was expecting to find it intact, its approx 20 miles to the next nearest, but was 30 miles to the next one on my route, had 35 miles showing in the tank at that point!



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Love it when Garmin takes you to a place where there may have been a petrol station the mid-20th century.

Nice roads up there, but would prefer to skip that last Pant-y-dwr section and go past Llangurig instead

Yes, the A4120 is a better road.
Garmin is hit or miss with petrol stations, but it was open last year, so was somewhat surprised.