British Superbike champion Tarran Mackenzie has officially opened a new £200,000 Welcome Centre at the Yamaha Off-Road Experience in the Cambrian Mountains near Llanidloes.
The business, which attracts around 2,000 visitors annually and generates around £600,000 for the local economy, is run by former 10-time British Enduro champion Geraint Jones, his wife Jane and their sons Rowan and Dylan, who are also both former British Enduro champions.
The Welcome Centre, which has a range of quality facilities, including a VIP shower and changing rooms, toilets and kit and drying room, features timber cladding and a porch constructed from larch trees grown on the Jones family’s 300-acre farm.
Built in partnership with Yamaha over the past year, the centre is heated by a woodchip biomass boiler and powered by electricity generated by wind turbines and solar panels.
