New trail opens at Brechfa Forest
Hitting a berm in Brechfa (Russell Burton)
The new, black-graded Raven mountain biking trail is now
open at
The new trail cost £80,000 and is part of the £500,000
granted to the Brechfa Bike Project by European Objective 1, a European Union financing
programme aimed at increasing economic prosperity in certain areas of
The trail’s
name refers to a
historical link to the ravens in the
The new route combines woodland singletrack, big descents, berms, jumps, step-ups, doubles, bombholes, switchbacks, rock gardens and plenty more.
You’re going to need everything in your biking skills inventory to conquer the Raven.
Get the trail map here. For more information on Brechfa go to the MBWales website.
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joshtp/mbukman
Posted Sat 19 Jul, 9:06 am UTC Flag as inappropriate
I was there on thursday, taking my sister on her first ever mtb experiance. we did the green rout which i have to say is insanely good for a green rout, the last two decents rival anything i'v ridden anywhere for sheer flowing fun, it even marks up against other trails like whites level or the wall. its alot easier though, like a scaled down veresion of some brilliant trail, smaller climbs..... anyway after we had ridden it i saw the bottom section of raven beloe us in tthe car park, it looked so lovely and flowy, jumps and berms.... so i went and rode the last section of trail which can be joinedfrom half way up the first climb. i'v ridden loans of red runs, i love whites level and all the others at afan, but this is on a different level of hardness alltogether, it really deservs the whole black thing! it so steep and supper skiddy rocks and oh just ride it yourself! its scary! the very bottom bit is lovelly all jumpy and fast, but on the rest i along withe my trusty GT hardtaill felt just a little out of our depths!
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