STRAIGHT TORQUING
Twenty years ago, trail centres were the bright new future of mountain biking. But how are they doing today, and are they still relevant when so many of us are riding off-piste trails?
When Coed y Brenin was chopped, hacked, and boulder-rolled into existence in a soggy, boggy, largely unrideable Welsh forest in 1997, it totally changed mountain biking in the UK. Every area had ‘mountain biking woods’ with more trails in than others, but they were mostly just deer tracks and motorbike gouges that we adopted as our ‘own’.
