or spend two days at bpw. it has nothing on cwmcarn
Did you mean Cwmcarn has nothing on it? 😀
I’m booked on the uplift on 16th Sept & have a 2 day pass from the wife so wanted to do a second day at the bike park. Annoyingly the lads I’m going with voted for day 2 at Afan, shame as we’ve all been there before…
Either way I can’t wait
TBH I was originally thinking a bit of variety would be worth while by visiting a couple of different venues, as I’m in Reading using the M4 as the main route for such jaunts makes sense, less motorway time and more riding.
Before I was aware BPW was now open I was more than likely just going to have a HT day at Cwmcarn and then a 2nd day at Afan, not very imaginative I know but a nice trip none the less.
Now BPW is an option I sort of fancy sticking more to just DH riding and only taking the big bike, which I’ve not been getting to ride lately, rather than go to BPW and then Afan and then have to take my HT as well I reckon I’ll exclude AFAN it from my plans…
Basically I want to ride my DH bike as much as possib;le for 2 days, if there’s enough tto occupy my at BPW then I’ll do that but I had thought I’d look at doing BPW and then swinging by somewhere else (possibly something more familiar) on the way back for day 2…
I can imagine Cwmcarn won’t be as busy now, which might be a good thing if I’m a bit tired from day 1 at BPW, and then there’s UKBP a bit more of a detour south but I’ve not ridden there for a couple of years, they’ve apparently done lots of work and I’ve always liked the place and the people in the past, probably one to keep for another time.
Thinking more broadly what sort of scope would there be for similar regular uplift services and trail developments at some of the other older M4 corridor DH locations?
Mtn Ash? Taff Buggy? Rheola maybe?
If Cwmcarn and Gethin can be seen as demonstrating the viability of uplift services in that particular area due to the good transport links, having the right terrain and pre-existing tracks with scope for further development can you imagine what that would be like, a chuffing huge draw for MTBers…