20.07.2023
Repair work to the Gorlech ‘Riverine’ section bridge will be taking place on Monday 24th July. Please ensure you follow all instruction and signage on site.
“Calling a trail a roller coaster ride is a knackered old cliché, but there’s no other way to describe the unique Gorlech ride. Every climb drops you into a madder, faster descent on the far side. The stone clad berms, kickers, tables and stump jumps just keep getting bigger and bigger every time in a mad mountain bike crescendo right up to the end. A truly unique skill and grin building experience!”
Named after the river Gorlech, what this 18.5 km trail delivers in views and scenery it certainly backs up with terrain and excitement.
Taking design and construction to new levels, the trail is a hard, fast, all weather surface which becomes more and more exciting as your skill level and speed progresses.
Soon you’ll be railing the perfectly sculpted berms and huge switchbacks, jumping the step up jumps and tabletops and grinning all the way to the bottom of the exhilarating final descent.
The Gorlech red route firmly puts Brechfa on the MTB Wales map as another top destination.
Ride Time (hours): 1.5
Distance: 10-20km
Grade: Red
Height Climbed (metres): 1071
News/Update: 20.07.2023
Repair work to the Gorlech ‘Riverine’ section bridge will be taking place on Monday 24th July. Please ensure you follow all instruction and signage on site.
Trail Facilities: Local
Area: South Wales
Visit Wales Grading: 5*****
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We rode Gorlech yesterday and Strava reckons it’s 629 metres of climbing not 1071. Just thought you might like to know. Anyway, it’s the 3rd time I’ve ridden Gorlech and I’ve hugely enjoyed it every time and will definitely return to ride it again, even though I live in Surrey……
Thanks Richard, we’ll look into that! Glad you enjoy the Welsh trails so much!
Don’t believe everything that Strava reports. Found that out since using a well calibrated Garmin with altimeter which can be set to sample every second rather than every 10m or greater contour intervals from open maps that are no where near the same standard as ordnance survey. Strava is just about acceptable (but still significantly vague) for nice gradual road climbs but useless for an undulating mtb trail where there is much elevation gain and loss within a single mapped contour.
I rode it last weekend and my garmin said it was 570m of climbing which felt abut right to me.