Cycling ancient trails: off-road on an e-bike in Pembrokeshire’s Preseli Hills
From TheGuardian.com
By Alf Anderson
He came up with the term “e-trail” because, he says, he “wanted a name that differentiated what we do from regular mountain biking. Our routes are rideable on a normal mountain bike, of course, but we just reckon they’re more fun – and easier – on an e-mountain bike.”
Ed tells me this as we take a break from riding our state-of-the-art (and rather pricey) Orange Phase e-bikes beneath the summit of 347-metre Carn Ingli to enjoy a wintry view across the wide sweep of Newport Bay.
Heavy rain showers blowing in from the Irish Sea have washed the landscape so that its colours glisten in the watery sunshine – the distant steel-blue sea throws bright white waves on to golden sands that give way to glossy green fields criss-crossed by a maze of drystone walls and ancient hedges. Above these are wind-blown moorlands and the boulder-strewn summit of Carn Ingli, where Saint Brynach is said to have communed with the angels (the preponderance of magic mushrooms growing hereabouts had nothing to do with his supernatural conversations, of course).
