A gritty, but cheery Dyfi Enduro

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The Howies Dyfi Enduro has been going as long as Singletrack Magazine has, since 2001. We’ve been there for every running of this classic Welsh event. It’s a non-competitive 60km day out around the Dyfi Forest, starting from Machynlleth – in a very impressive ‘shut the high street’ sendoff…

Misty is better than raining…
Despite heavy overnight rain, the course was mostly firm going
Ade from Howies was recording everything
One bottleneck on the first descent, but plain sailing after that
A fantastic ska band formed the hilltop entertainment this year
Despite the cold/wet/warm/close/wet weather, everyone seemed cheery
The feed stop offered sausage rolls and flapjack. And crunchy eyeballs
You ordered HOW MANY sausage rolls?
A pebbledashed Chipps made it round…
Everyone loves the finish – and free mug…

We bring you the results here: http://summit.smartdata.co.uk/results?event_id=11 and should have a guest race reporter soon.

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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