Mach Trails

The Dyfi Forest has fantastic scenery, stunning trails and strong mountain biking community. The original Mach 1-3 trails take you as far out into the wilderness as you want to go on natural, but no less challenging trails. Meanwhile the more recent Climachx trail winds you high into Dyfi forest, before firing you down superbly technical singletrack descents.. Waymarked routes of varying length and difficulty take you straight from the centre of town into fantastic mountain and valley scenery. With everything from mixed road and valley trails to long forestry climbs, traversing mountain singletrack and sketchy slate ravine descents on the longer routes there’s something for everyone. The Dyfi forest to the north of the town offers excellent forestry freeriding too. Local mountain bikers and business people formed a community group known as Dyfi Valley Mountain Biking, who aimed to publicise the great mountain biking in the area and boost tourist income. The group successfully fundraised to waymark the Mach 1, 2 and 3 routes on rights of way around Machynlleth, and then to build trails in the Dyfi forest, with the help of a community regeneration group, Ecodyfi. The Climachx trail is sited in the Dyfi forest; home of the Dyfi Enduro. It’s a 15km round trip, with 9km of built singletrack with compressions and whoops, rock slab drop-offs and some beautiful flowing turns. The last descent is the longest in Wales and features rocky jumps; watch out for the ‘eye of the needle’; a huge jump with a narrow landing between two trees on the other side.