Road Trip to the Valleys

[-J-]

Me and a few mates decided to head off to wales over the weekend, managed to cover about 700 miles in total driving about, managed to get a few photos, these are the Clio related ones -

Following my mates S3 up the Brecon Mountain roads -

The roads we just came up -

We then parked up on the infamous "Topgear Hairpin" for an hour or so to have a play around -

And then a quick drive to the top of teh Mountain -

And park up looking at the view -

Cracking weekend away, met up with some Pistonheads members on the Sunday for a 200 mile drive out and Pub luch, but no photos from that as was to bust enjoying myself.

 

[Guppy]

Awesome!

Should of popped round to say hi

 

[-J-]

There was another CS.net'er out on the Pistonheads drive Sunday, Didnt catch his name, had a nice Monaco -

 

[Leeshez]

Looks like you had fun.

 

[Tigger]

Loads of fun

 

[subarufreak]

nice roads, nice pics and nice clio!!

 

[-J-]

The roads are awesome, we found one that was about 20 miles long between 2 mountains, twist after twist.

 

[jesus]

Excellent photos!

 

[Fletcher]

Nice pics, car looks good too.

 

[martynrg]

Good pics. Nice tripod action too

 

[-J-]

Tri-podding was the aim, however i was out classed by my mate in his eibach'ed gold GTI Diesel -

I was for some reason suffering massivly from understeer

 

[chrispy.clio]

That looks like loads of fun. I cant wait to get back to uni up north where i can get on those type of roads on the yorkshire dales

 

[saltyhair81]

lol, love the mk4 up on three

Looks like fun

 

[Guppy]

Need to get back up there when the cars fixed!

 

[nick.]

looks like a good journey, 172 looks very nice m8

 

[Jamie]

Nice I would love to do a South to North Wales run over a weekend.

 

[rob_clio197rs]

some class pics there, pic 2 is a crash in the making!! whats the road number for the top gear hairpin?

 

[-J-]

Pic 2 Not as bad as it looks

Road is the A4069, I think will be headding back to North wales Next time to see what i can find up there.

It is WELL worth the drive, in total we racked up about 700 miles over the weekend.

 

[sgtbash999]

Wales is God's Country - FACT!

cracking pics mate. especially love the tripodding ones and teh one where you can see the smoke burning from the inside tyre - proper job! ;-)

 

[-J-]

Wales is God's Country - FACT!

cracking pics mate. especially love the tripodding ones and teh one where you can see the smoke burning from the inside tyre - proper job! ;-)

I was suffering with to much understeer I suspect I could have got the rear wheel higher.

I need to work out why the understeer is happening, Possibley the Coilovers are set to Stiff or something.

 

[StevieG-09]

I love the black mountain!
Good laugh up them roads

 

[Brett]

Looks like an awsome trip. I'm going to take a day out there when I change my car for a formal hello.

 

[StephenJ]

WOW! just seeing these pics makes me want a road trip there!

amazing stuff mate

 

[Slammed172]

Love the pics, Clio looking good too.

 

[Timmay]

looks a good drive!

 

[Ash87]

awesome roads, im planning another trip there soon IF the weather brightens up!

 

[rob_clio197rs]

Pic 2 Not as bad as it looks

Road is the A4069, I think will be headding back to North wales Next time to see what i can find up there.

It is WELL worth the drive, in total we racked up about 700 miles over the weekend.

cheers for that mate, seen many pics of this and always wondered where it is, will definatly be taking a trip and maybe someone who can take pics too

 

[brownin]

nice pics, me and my mates started goin up to meet you lot on the piston head run at newport (M4 J30) but we were going to be late and dint want to miss you all so we made are way to meet you all at horseshoe bend, got as far as merthyr roundabout and it was torrential rain so thought bugger that, one of the boys from my local club went on the piston head run and flipped his AX is very lucky to be in one piece, , did the weather get any better?

As For North Wales, Do it, The EVO triangle is supposed to be the best but i found some nice roads by accident just off Rhayader through the Elan valley, some absolutely stunning picture oppurtunities up there too, anyway end of essay, next time you make your way down to wales let the south wales boys no im sure some of us will meet you and make a good day of it

 

[-J-]

He flipped it on this run? i didnt see any AX's at the Horse Shoe bend when we started.

The weather was not bad, the odd shower, but not enough to spoil the day.

Next time we head up Ill Deff post it up.

 

[Guppy]

He flipped it on this run? i didnt see any AX's at the Horse Shoe bend when we started.

The weather was not bad, the odd shower, but not enough to spoil the day.

Next time we head up Ill Deff post it up.

Good good

 

[brownin]

He flipped it on this run? i didnt see any AX's at the Horse Shoe bend when we started.

The weather was not bad, the odd shower, but not enough to spoil the day.

Next time we head up Ill Deff post it up.

his was only a 1.0 so i doubt he kept up tbh, but here is the result: