Going to CYB to do The Beast this weekend, and apparently there is a boring bit (possibly a fireroad climb) that you can cut out. Can anyone explain how we’d go about it?. Also, if we want to go back for another shortish (couple of hours) ride on Sunday, what trail packs the most fun into a short amount of time? Cheers folks.

Go past the cafe half way round.
Carry on following the route uphill until it turns right onto a fire road. Carry straight on up the tarmac until you get to a gate at the top.
Go through the gate and up the fire road a bit more and the singletrack descends on your left.

Nice one Stu. Cheers.

Here you go:

http://my.viewranger.com/route/details/OTAyOA%3D%3D

after here
goto here

follow the fire road until you hit the trail head sign

Yes, a very good short cut, but DO stop at the cafe, you’ll not regret it! Do the old red bull on the Sunday, has a new name, but it’s the one that goes through the horns just before the cafe where everything starts, someone will tell you the new name

Minotaur ?

Do the old red bull on the Sunday, has a new name, but it’s the one that goes through the horns just before the cafe where everything starts, someone will tell you the new name

You mean Tarw? If that’s the one you mean, then i seriously recommend avoiding it. It’s the worst trail centre loop i’ve ever ridden on – especially when the other trails there are so good, you’d be mad to ride it, in my opinion.

Once you’ve ridden the Beast, a lot of the other trails cover the same ground; Dragons Back and MBR particularly so. Not necessarily a bad thing…

Personally, i’d recommend riding Cyflym Coch.

Or you can up the fire road and take the turn right which also brings you to the gate and then up fire road to ST.

Buy the trail map from the visitors centre (its £2.50) and you will be able to work out all the boring bits of fireroad climbs

Tarw is shit +1
Avoid.

FWIW I really enjoyed the Tarw- it’s a bit too much effort for the reward, I suppose, but I still enjoyed the descents just as much as anything else we did in wales.

Did that today, not used to rocky trails, right out of my comfort zone loved “..”. Coch and minatour trails, Victoria sponge at the cafe was immense too, currently nursing arm pump with a snowdonia ale or two 🙂

See you there! Will be at CyB this weekend, if you see a fat bloke on a black Canyon with a Van RC fitted feel free to laugh…!

Saw a guy today on a black canyon, he was skinny though

Lol, sure wasn’t me then! 8)

I quite like the bit that gets cut out. Having said that, if you do cut it out you a ride that’s the same length as the other longish one and with all the good technical bits.

Did the enduro there the other week and the best trail was one we didn’t compete on and was simply a transit trail – Adams family combo – great fun.

worth the shortcut long climb if only for the chance to gurn, taken yesterday

2nd attempt by rOcKeTdOgUk, on Flickr