Van Rd Trails

Just offstage at Deri Rugby Club.

Good things happening at Llynfi BMX Racing Club

🤩 South West BMX Championships 2024 🏆
🥇Including the Welsh BMX Championships🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

We’re looking forward to hosting the South West Region BMX Racing Championships for the first time (and the first time in Wales) including getting the Welsh BMX Championships off the ground, and welcoming the clubs, riders and their families and friends to the end of season finale followed by a celebration presentation evening on Saturday 14th September 2024. 😃

Here’s the lowdown of generally what’s happening:

⚡️Practise sessions with gates:
▪️Thursday 12th September
5:00-8:00pm (including coaching sessions see separate post)
▪️Friday 13th September
5:00-6:00 Dialled in with Sim coaching (book on separate post)
6:00-8:00pm Open track

🔥 Championships Race Day:
Saturday 14th September
▪️9:30-11:30 Practise
▪️11:30 (ish) onwards Racing

Here’s the link to register and remember it’s pre-registration online only:
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/307978/2024-South-West-Championships&source=website-ems

🚦Remember
▪️there is no Novice categories so you’ll need to enter your relevant age group in Expert, this will be great preparation for next season too!
▪️Welsh Championships entry eligibility criteria appears on the pre-registration link - you must tick this to enter
▪️there is no entry on the day so you must pre-register online at the link above on British Cycling by Wednesday 11th September closes at 23:55!▪️ensure you hire your transponder first thing on arrival if you require one so it registers in practise

🌟 There will be food, drinks, treats, Welsh cakes 😋, raffle, prizes, commentary, tunes, balance bike fun race, and more on the day!

🏆 Presentation Evening
Saturday 14th September at The Hi Tide Inn in Porthcawl at 7:00pm
Address: Hi Tide, Mackworth Road, Porthcawl, CF36 5BT (about 35 minutes from the track)
🥇 Presentation of both The SW Regional Series trophies and the SW Regional Championship trophies of the day presented in age groups youngest to oldest!
😋 At the Hi-Tide you can enjoy meals, drinks, music, amusement park, the beach (Sandy Bay), as well as other local nearby places to eat and visit within walking distance!

🚌 Where to stay:
As a seaside town there’s lots of great places to stay and activities to do in Porthcawl (approx 35 mins from the track), and here you will find campervan, caravan, tent camping sites both on the site of the presentation venue (Hi-Tide) and nearby, as as well as static caravan sites and a load of B&Bs in Porthcawl town (5 min walk from the Hi-Tide), or on the outskirts including the Llynfi Valley there is a range of other places!

💭 If you call to book any of these parks then please let them know you’re attending the SW BMX Presentation (and you may get discount for a group/club booking etc)!

Friday:
⛺️ With us - available only on the Friday night (£15)
Contact: please message our page with your name and registration

Friday and/or Saturday:
⛺️ Hi-Tide (formerly Sandy Bay)
- camping tents, camper-van & caravan park
- tent/no electric £23 p/n or camper/caravan with electric £30 p/n
- onsite of the presentation venue
- Contact: 01656 782432
- Website: https://www.hi-tide.co.uk/caravan-site

⛺️ Brodawel
- camping tents & camper/caravan park
- approx 5 min drive or 15 min walk to presentation venue
- Contact: 01656 783231
- Website: https://www.brodaweltouringpark.co.uk/

⛺️ Trecco Bay Holiday Park
- caravan park
- approx 5 min walk to presentation venue)
- Contact: 03301 234986
- Website: https://www.parkdeanresorts.co.uk/contact-us/holidays/
- If there’s a group of you at a club looking to stay at Trecco Bay Holiday Park it would be worth inquiring about a ‘group booking’ so you receive discount, please call them, as you’ll have to make one payment for the booking by a lead person!

Hope that helps, any queries just drop us a line, as mentioned more info released soon too! 🤘🏼🏁

See you there ready to race!!! 🤩🚀🥇

We’d like to thank for their incredible support:
⚡️Maesteg Town Council
⚡️ Ltd
⚡️Container Sales South Wales
⚡️Caerau Pharmacy
⚡️ Ltd
⚡️ Accountants
⚡️South West Region BMX Racing
⚡️Beicio Cymru

Natural Resources Wales are undertaking a stakeholder survey of its services for recreation. Every one of you who rides NRW sites (both official and unofficial) including our local forests, mountains, upland areas AND VAN RD TRAILS are all stakeholders and should complete this survey.

So here is a chance to exercise your opinions and hopefully influence positive change in the future for improved MTB access, dialogue and collaboration with volunteer groups such as VRT and investment into infrastructure which should benefit all of us!

Express your opinions directly to NRW.......you won't make a difference keeping them to yourselves.

Link - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/YHCZQQB...

REMINDER: PLEASE DON'T RIDE THE (DIRT) TRAILS WHEN THE GROUND IS WET!!!

WHETHER YOU ARE ON A JUMP BIKE, BMX, MOUNTAIN BIKE, WHATEVER.........DAMAGE OCCURS WHEN WET, DON'T BE THE ONES TO CAUSE IT (ESPECIALLY AFTER WORK HAS BEEN DONE TO IMPROVE SOME OF THEM).

P.S. THIS INCLUDES 'JUST RIDING THROUGH' THE DUAL SLALOM ON A RIDE.

LOOK AFTER YOUR LOCAL TRAILS.

THANKS ALL.

Get your race on this weekend with Llynfi BMX Racing Club !!

They are also looking to top up their prize fund so contact them if you can pitch in and make it all the better for the competitors.

LLYNFI BMX REGIONAL RACE 2023
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏁 SUNDAY 28 MAY 🏁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

RACE DAY:
Sunday 28 May
9:00-11:00am - Registration
9:30-11:30am - Track practise
12:00-4:30pm - Racing

PRACTISE DAY:
Saturday 27 May
Track open for practise 2:00-5:00pm (including gates from 3:30pm)

Classes:
Novice, Expert, Elite, and Cruiser in all age groups.
🚦If you are racing novice (haven't raced before or got much racing experience) then you can register on the day (message us for more info)
🚦If you are racing any other class (expert/elite) then you need to be a member and pre-register on the British Cycling | Welsh Cycling website:

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/285154/2023-South-West-BMX-Regional-Series-Round-6--Llynfi-BMX-Club?fbclid=IwAR2PFnxoBzwXE_T6Eug1eOif_uuQd8tPTofu3fyVV0Gk4rSb-lPU1dcMS5E

This is Round 6 of 10 of the West BMX Regional Race Series. However, you don’t need to have raced any of the other rounds to enter our race, so come and give BMX Racing a go!

🪖 You must wear a full face helmet, bike gloves, long sleeve top and legs covered, and ride a bmx which is in good order without pegs and has a working rear brake.

🍔 🍩🥤🍦 Refreshments available: Bacon Butties, Burgers, Hotdogs, Chocolates & Sweets, Cold Drinks, Ice Lollies, Tea & Coffee and Cake.

🎟Raffle: Various awesome prizes!

🚘 Car parking: on site only £3 all day
🚐 Camper vans: £10 please PM message to book overnight.

💰 Reminder that it’s CASH ONLY at our Regional Race weekend. Please bring cash for all payments - cafe, raffle, race practise on Saturday, including car parking, as there will not be any ‘pay later’ or ‘transfer later’ or ‘I don’t have cash so not paying’!!!! You can pay for race entry at the sign in tent direct with the SW Region with cash or card.

🔥🏁COME AND RACE OR WATCH - SEE YOU THERE! 🏁🔥

THANK YOU FOR STAYING OFF THE DUAL SLALOM...............PLEASE BE PATIENT........... IT WILL BE WORTH IT!

Yes, the Dual Slalom has been closed a while.....Yes, you all want to ride it....Yes, you all want to know when it's opening again....! The Dual Slalom has taken a pasting over the Winter. Unfortunately people persist on riding it in wet weather when the ground gets mucky. This wears it away. If you are leaving tyre tracks all over the place and splashing through mucky bowls........you are the ones causing the damage. Please don't do that!

UPDATE: We have had a great team working hard on the Dual Slalom but they can't just dedicate a whole week in one go so it has been worked in stages. We know this takes longer but the time between shifts lets the dirt settle, get rained on, get sun-baked and hopefully be more robust for it. The end result should be a track that is SO much better to ride.

BE PATIENT....STAY OFF THE TRACK........WE WILL ANNOUNCE WHEN IT OPENS AGAIN. TA VERY MUCH.

Not cool.........

Please Share!

We are currently closed due to a break in early this morning.

Three bikes taken
2023 MARIN ALPINE TRAIL E2 LARGE
2023 MARIN ALPINE TRAIL E2 MEDIUM
SPECIALIZED LEVO RED YEAR TBC

Please keep an eye out, the two Marin bikes are Very Very limited in the UK right now being a brand new model, one a Custom Build with Fox Factory Forks....

Thank you 😞🙏

It's not looking like BBQ weather tomorrow. We'll postpone until next week.

There's still a meet up from 5:30 for those who want a social.

DUAL SLALOM CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!!!!

The Dual Slalom is undergoing much-needed repairs so that it rides well for the
Summer, so we have had to close it temporarily.

PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THE TRAILS TO RIDE THE DUAL SLALOM!
DO NOT RIDE IT ON 'THE WAY THROUGH' ON A MTB RIDE.
DO NOT REMOVE THE BARRIERS WE HAVE PUT IN PLACE.

BASICALLY....STAY OFF THE DUAL SLALOM, PLEASE!!

We are spending time, effort and money to repair the track for all of YOU to enjoy so don't be one of those that ignores the obvious and rides regardless of the damage. The soil will be soft and needs time to settle. If everyone stays off it.....it will be great to ride again......easy!!

Thanks to everyone who understands this simple message 🙂