Brenhden's TET
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 7:10 pm
Brenhden’s TET
I love a challenge me. So I’ve decided to have a crack at the TET.
A quick blast from Somerset to Chepstow this morning put me at the nearest point on the TET to my house just to see what it was like. The B4235 is one of those roads that every biker will love, it’s all sweeping corners and ups and downs framed by forest on either side. Alas it was slightly wasted on me as today was the first time I’d gone back to enduro wheels from supermotos on the DR650 and I was a bit unsure of the fresh Trailwing on the back. I had also just started using viewranger on my phone for the first time and forgot it would be constantly be going to sleep in the way that proper satnavs just don’t… A left on down to Shirenewton and on to Red House Lane had me humming the old Hendrix tune and I was met with my first unpaved section.
A lovely easy lane for a few hundred meters and then a right turn onto a trail between a copse and a field and after about 30 feet I stopped to make sure I was going the right way. I didn’t look like anyone has taken a bike down here in years! It was too overgrown to get up on the pegs without branches knocking you off and (most surprisingly for Wales) too hot to have the visor down.
A few hundred yards of that later I hopped the bike up a big step I came across this lot:
It took me about 25 minutes of sweating to pull it all aside enough to guide the bike under and by the time I was through I was covered in cuts from the holly. I was super chuffed to be through though, I might add some secateurs to my tool kit…
Out the other end and along some forest roads and Pen-Y-Worlod Road and I came to a gate the trail went through so I opened it. A farmer wandered down to me and we had a good chat about bikes and horses but it was clear that there was no right of way on his paddock so I missed this out and carried on to Wentwood which had a super pleasing and easy trail.
I love a challenge me. So I’ve decided to have a crack at the TET.
A quick blast from Somerset to Chepstow this morning put me at the nearest point on the TET to my house just to see what it was like. The B4235 is one of those roads that every biker will love, it’s all sweeping corners and ups and downs framed by forest on either side. Alas it was slightly wasted on me as today was the first time I’d gone back to enduro wheels from supermotos on the DR650 and I was a bit unsure of the fresh Trailwing on the back. I had also just started using viewranger on my phone for the first time and forgot it would be constantly be going to sleep in the way that proper satnavs just don’t… A left on down to Shirenewton and on to Red House Lane had me humming the old Hendrix tune and I was met with my first unpaved section.
A lovely easy lane for a few hundred meters and then a right turn onto a trail between a copse and a field and after about 30 feet I stopped to make sure I was going the right way. I didn’t look like anyone has taken a bike down here in years! It was too overgrown to get up on the pegs without branches knocking you off and (most surprisingly for Wales) too hot to have the visor down.
A few hundred yards of that later I hopped the bike up a big step I came across this lot:
It took me about 25 minutes of sweating to pull it all aside enough to guide the bike under and by the time I was through I was covered in cuts from the holly. I was super chuffed to be through though, I might add some secateurs to my tool kit…
Out the other end and along some forest roads and Pen-Y-Worlod Road and I came to a gate the trail went through so I opened it. A farmer wandered down to me and we had a good chat about bikes and horses but it was clear that there was no right of way on his paddock so I missed this out and carried on to Wentwood which had a super pleasing and easy trail.