The Fox Antifreeze
Fox Antifreeze 2025
15th March 2025 - Coed y Brenin
The Fox Antifreeze is a non-competitive staggered-start chip-timed MTB endurance lap challenge that takes place early each year at Coed y Brenin Forest Park.
The Coed y Brenin Antifreeze is open to MTB and EMTB riders and has proved to be popular with our customers over the years as it offers a relaxed, sociable and fun start to the riding year. The staggered start takes away the stress of a mass line start but also spreads the riders, allowing them to make the most of Coed y Brenin's fine singletrack with less bottlenecks.
Riders can choose a level of challenge that suits them, riding either 1, 2 or 3 laps of the (aprox) 12.5km course. You don't need to decide beforehand what distance you will ride, you simply ride the number of laps you wish and the chip timing system will allocate your time to the appropriate event.
Coed y Brenin
Coed y Brenin provides the perfect venue for the event, with miles of singletrack trails to enjoy. The location has been in the news a lot this year as Natural Resources Wales plan to close the visitor centre there on 31st March 2025. Luckily this means all facilities including the cafe and visitor centre will be open as usual for the event, but this could be one of the last opportunities to enjoy the centre with all facilities open before the main visitor centre closes at the end of March.
Natural Resources Wales have confirmed that the car park and trails will remain open and we can confirm that our sister store at Beics Brenin will continue to offer shop and bike hire at the site so there is still plenty of reason to visit. However the loss of the visitor centre is a great disappointment to users of Coed y Brenin's many fabulous trails and the cycle, walking and running communities are all hoping that NRW will move swiftly to find new provision for the site.
Fox
Event sponsors Fox will be on hand showing their latest MTB kit and offering demos of their range of Union shoes. Fox have been the long time title supported the event that has run since 2015.
Beics Brenin
Beics Brenin, our sister store located at the trail head of Coed y Brenin are ready to give riders a warm welcome. They will be running a sale promotion to coincide with the event weekend so you can expect some great bargains on Fox gear if you plan on being there.
