Funding Cuts To Welsh Trails Confirmed

We’ve been reporting for a while that there were extensive budget cuts threatened at Natural Resources Wales, the land manager responsible for most of …

By stwhannah

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Funding Cuts To Welsh Trails Confirmed

I know it’s an investment thing again, but I can’t help thinking if they were able to take a few leaves out of BPW book and build some dedicated dh trails and uplift then things might really pick up there.

Years and years ago, before bikeparks like BPW were a thing, we used to go to Afan where there was a guy running a business (Gilbert) doing uplifts. More like a taxi really but he had access to the forest tracks .This was great for us more dh-focused riders.

Maybe an element of that might start picking things up at CYB?

Don’t know. Shame for all.

Rode Afan back in March with trail closures ( on the Wal) and chatting to some local riders stating how miss managed it had all become, such a shame. However the little hub cafe half way around was still open, fortunately.

With respect to the visitor centre- is this not just reverting to the original setup at cyb, when Sian and Dafydd ran things? Weren’t we all up in arms when they lost the lease? So this is at least in part a good thing? Or am I missing something?

With respect to the visitor centre- is this not just reverting to the original setup at cyb, when Sian and Dafydd ran things? Weren’t we all up in arms when they lost the lease? So this is at least in part a good thing? Or am I missing something

Absolutely shocking chain of events. Booting them off, **** it up then leaving everything ****.

Does the original shack over the road still exist, or has it rotted away. Will they get to use the new building?

Aside from everything else, gutted for the 120 people who are about to be put at risk. They have my sympathy, a lot of organisations in this sector (including the one I work at) are downsizing to cut costs. It’s going to be a tough job market for a while.

I’m still struggling to understand how they managed to set up a business model that couldn’t run a centre like cyb profitability. I hope those who are at risk find something suitable quickly.

Headline doesn’t quite match up with this:

you would hope that the budget doesn’t affect those responsible for trail maintenance, but that remains to be seen.

And is there any indication whether the community bid to run CyB cafe/VC might be favoured?

 

Well that sucks……..

Is the bike shop at CYB staying?