Well a bit of moisture softens the soil and makes it the best to work with. Across Australia riders are pulling out their shovels and doing maintenance on existing tracks (improving drainage) or constructing new jumps. The question is are you lending a hand?
This weekend the following is going down
WA Kalamunda Circuit:
Sunday the 4th of July at 8am.
Meet at the gravel rd on the right hand side of Asher road about 200 metres from Mundaring Weir Road. Or follow the signs.
Bring rake, shovel, hat, food, sturdy shoes, water, gloves and insect repellent.
Bring a mug for a cuppa. Tea, coffee, sugar and milk supplied.
NSW Royal NP. They have had some poor turn outs to help build. Lend a hand by watching this thread here.
Vic Lysterfield (in Melbourne's SE) is some of the most used tracks in Aus, yet only got 6 people to our trail day!! It was very well publicized!
the next couple of days
July 10th, 24th
August 7th, 21st
September 4th, 18th
Always starting @ 10am from "Trailmix"
Check out LysterfieldMTB.com for further details
If you know of other build days please post and remember to keep your eyes on the trails forum.
SA, Last Days! Make sure you email your support (1 comments) (link) Wednesday, 23-June-2010 6:42 PM - by scratchy
Time is running out!!!!!! Spread the word!
Please show your support for the draft DEH trails strategy:
“LINKING ADELAIDE WITH NATURE”
Submission Closing date 25th June.
What you need to do to support this strategy: Email Kain Gardner at kain.gardner@sa.gov.au State your interest in cycling and support for the draft trails strategy “Linking Adelaide with Nature”.
More info can be found here: http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/par...or/latest.html
Key points of the strategy:
* It’s a strategy to guide trail management of 24 DEH parks across the Adelaide hills. Anstey Hill, Black Hill, Morialta, Cleland, Belair, Sturt Gorge, Sheppard’s Hill, O’halloran Hill to name a few.
* It aligns DEH’s guiding principles and objectives with improved mountain bike access in DEH parks.
* It identifies the current inequity in trails in DEH parks, ie 500 km of trails for walkers and only 4 km of those trails allowing shared use with bikes.
* It displays an understanding of mountain bike riders desire for singletrack and vehicle tracks as opposed to only vehicle tracks, and acknowledges the diverse nature of the mountain bike community.
* It proposes a long distance off road cycle route from Gorge Rd to Sturt Gorge. This would be in the order of 60 km long.
* It recommends trail plans be prepared and finalised as follows:
2009~2010: Anstey Hill, Belair, Black Hill, Morialta, Cleland, Sturt Gorge.
2010~2013: Hallet Cove, Onkaparinga, Shepards Hill, O’halloran Hill.
* It recommends implementation of trail plans as follows:
2010~2013, Anstey Hill, Belair, Black Hill, Cleland, Morialta, Sturt Gorge.
It recommends investigation of the southern extension of the Mawson trail.
What you need to do to support this strategy: It’s simple -
Email Kain Gardner at kain.gardner@sa.gov.au State your interest in cycling and support for the draft trails strategy “Linking Adelaide with Nature”. You can say more if you want, or keep the emails short and simple – but make sure you say you support the strategy!!!
(words borrowed from AMTBC newsletter. Thanks Scott K)
Sunshine Series DH Round 3 Cancelled (0 comments) (link) Wednesday, 23-June-2010 09:15 AM - by Scott
Due to a lack of available volunteers and people willing to assist on the running of the event, Gravity MTB have had to cancel the DH event scheduled for this weekend at Kenilworth.
Round 4 will continue to be run on July 25th, and Round 5 on August 15.
Gravity MTB apologies for any inconvenience, and wishes to extend an invitation to people to assist with the 5th round of the series to ensure the viability of the event.
For more discussion on the sunshine series go here.
Steve Peat game out on iPhone (19 comments) (link) Monday, 21-June-2010 6:29 PM - by scratchy
So Saturday night was the big showdown between the Aussie and Ghana in the soccer. I was at the pub, not really that pissed and Gus thrust the Steve Peat game that was released that day.
Played it for five minutes and all I can say, if that is what he finds riding a bike like no wonder it took him so bloody long to win the worlds! Bloody hard and only for the die hard fans.
Let me know if you ever make it to the bottom of the track!
"This game has been played by all the top names in the sport to critical acclaim including Steve Peat, Greg Minnaar, Josh Brycleand, Rob Warner and Hans Ray!" (press release).
Check it out here in iTunes: http://ax.itunes.apple.com/gb/app/st...77464022?mt=8#
World Cup DH #3 Results - Leogang (7 comments) (link) Monday, 21-June-2010 10:20 AM - by Scott
Men
1
MINNAAR Greg
4:05.65
2
ATHERTON Gee
4:06.39
3
GWIN Aaron
4:10.09
4
BLENKINSOP Samuel
4:11.17
5
COLE Cameron
4:11.77
6
PEAT Steve
4:11.82
7
FAIRCLOUGH Brendan
4:12.61
8
LEOV Justin
4:12.93
9
LEHIKOINEN Matti
4:13.25
10
SIMMONDS Matthew
4:13.82
...
18
KOVARIK Chris
4:18.36
27
O'CONNOR Shaun
4:20.68
46
HANNAH Michael
4:25.70
50
BROSNAN Troy °
4:26.99
61
BUTTON Joshua
4:30.10
63
ATKINSON Bryn
4:30.53
Women
1
JONNIER Sabrina
4:52.70
2
RAGOT Emmeline
4:56.24
3
PUGIN Floriane
4:58.05
4
MOSELEY Tracy
5:02.39
5
NICOLE Myriam
5:05.48
New Forum Sections Added (1 comments) (link) Monday, 21-June-2010 09:23 AM - by scratchy
You may have noticed and over 30s forum section appear and a buy and sell section for race entries (mainly Endurance races).
Here is one for another section of the forum, the ladies and how to help them with their "Mad Billy Goat Skills". (hang out for the twist at the end...)
World Cup 4X #4 Results - Leogang (2 comments) (link) Sunday, 20-June-2010 06:53 AM - by Scott
Men
1
GRAVES Jared
2
SLAVIK Tomas
3
MAROSI Michal
4
WICHMAN Joost
5
RIHA Jakub
6
SALADINI Romain
7
POLC Filip
8
GRAF David
9
TATARKOVIC Kamil
10
DERBIER Quentin
...
16
LEVINSON Richard
29
HABICHT David
Women
1
BEERTEN Anneke
2
PETTERSON Joanna
3
LABOUNKOVA Romana
4
GRIFFITHS Fionn
5
MOLCIK Anita
6
CURD Katy
7
HUNTINGTON Sarsha
Australian Mountain Bike #109 is on sale now! (0 comments) (link) Thursday, 17-June-2010 1:10 PM - by scratchy
Not only do you get another whopping serving of all the regulars, issue #109 also comes with “How To, Vol.2” the second edition of AMB’s instructional DVDs, featuring 20 skills explained, step-by-step.
Inside the mag?
Freeride Shootout: 4 big hitters go head to head.
Sea Otter: the best 2011 gear revealed.
Epic Bond: building a good team at the Cape Epic .
How To: service your DT Swiss freehub.
Tested: Fisher HiFi Deluxe 29er, Ibis Tranny.
And heaps, heaps more.
World Cup DH#2 Results - Ft William (11 comments) (link) Monday, 7-June-2010 07:31 AM - by Scott
Guys- not JUST an SA topic! (1 comments) (link) Tuesday, 1-June-2010 11:26 AM - by scratchy
(poached from the Trails forum)
The Department of Environment and Heritage currently have a draft trail strategy document for public consultation (until June 25 2010) called "linking Adelaide with Nature". For those of you not familar with Adelaide, the Adelaide hills are an amazing area of riding close to the city, but currently so much of it is DEH land which is not legally open to riders.
The idea of this document is to consider general approaches to manage and move forward with the running of the Adelaide Hills DEH parks, including Cleland, Morialta, Shepherds Hill, Blackhill and more. Whilst previously these areas were considered individually, this document sets an overall direction for improving these parks and allowing cyclists in.
A big part of it is that the DEH are now keen to consider allowing mountain biking to occur in parks- if correctly managed and with trails designed with safety and the environment in mind. Currently riding is not allowed in most parks in SA except on some bitumen roads. This is a huge step forward and will hopefully open up parks to riders, whilst reducing the illegal riding in other environmentally sensitive areas.
Also, one of the biggest plans is to look into developing a North-South long-distance cycling trail through the hills from Gorge Road to Sturt Gorge- we are talking roughly a 60km trail across the Adelaide hillsface incorporating many areas of native bush, conservation and national parks which would be an amazing ride, and potentially an awesome tourist attraction too.
It is really important that cyclists get behind this- it is a good plan- there is nothing in the plan that is negative as far as we can see.
But the most important thing you can do (and the simplest) is to send an email to kain.gardner@sa.gov.au saying you support the plan- and maybe if you are from interstate say how cool it would be to have a long distance track in the Adelaide hills, and that you'd love to come visit Adelaide if it happened ;-)
Sunshine Series Rd 2 - XC Results - Illinbah (0 comments) (link) Tuesday, 1-June-2010 10:20 AM - by Scott
Elite Men
1. Aaron Benson - 1:43:40
2. Aiden Lefmann - 1:43:42
3. David Whitney - 1:47:59
4. Glenn Steward - 1:49:24
5. Simon Frederiksen - 1:55:25
MINNAAR Greg
ATHERTON Gee
GWIN Aaron
BLENKINSOP Samuel
LEHIKOINEN Matti
KOVARIK Chris
JONNIER Sabrina
GRAVES Jared
SLAVIK Tomas
WICHMAN Joost
SALADINI Romain
POLC Filip
GRAF David
PETTERSON Joanna
GRIFFITHS Fionn
MOLCIK Anita
COLE Cameron
GWIN Aaron
LEHIKOINEN Matti