Club News

Keep your calendar free for the following upcoming local events:

• Sun 1st August Winter Series Race 2, Sandy Point
• Sun 1st August H & J’s Outdoor World Cross Country Winter Series Round 4
• Sun 10th October Cycle Surgery Singlespeed Champs – Bluff Hill - See Below

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H & J’s Outdoor World Cross Country Winter Series Round 4 – Sunday 1st August

Yes it’s round 4 already and counting down to the big finale in October. Usual format 1, 2 or 3 laps plus the kids loop, with registration from 9:30, rider’s briefing at 10:25 & race start at 10:30. A great selection of spot prizes from H & J’s Outdoor World will be drawn after the race. Plus don’t forget to enter the draw for the brand new GT Avalanche mountain bike – the winner will be drawn at the last round on 3rd October.

For those with children riding our recommendation is for a bike with a minimum 16” wheel size for the kids loop and a 20” geared bike for the race loop. Children riding the race lap should be capable of riding on their own for 1 hour or else should be accompanied by an adult.

Please note the September round is to be a fundraiser to help club and committee member Ian Wright on his quest to world domination at the UCI 24 hour World Champs in Canberra this October. All entry fees collected on the day are going towards his entry and race costs.


Cycle Surgery Singlespeed Champs – Bluff Hill Sunday 10th October

The perfect send off for those heading to the Singlespeed World Champs in Rotovegas. 4 laps for the boys & 3 for the girls of the Bluff XC trails with over 500m of vertical climb plus the traditional beercut. Start getting those gears off!

4 laps for the boys, 3 for the girls with the regulatory beercut

Registration on the day from 10:00 am

Rider’s briefing 11:00am

Race start 11:15am

Club Members $10 non-members $20



Bluff Hill Trails – ZZ Top Closed until further notice!

If it’s wet please stay off the Bluff trails – go for a ride at Sandy Point instead. It’ll let us build new trails at Bluff instead of having to fix the damage done by people riding the trails when they are wet and muddy.

 

 

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Annual General Meeting

Following the Club’s 2010 AGM we have some new committee members. The full list of officers is:

President – David Brookland
Vice President – Pete Jeffcoate
Secretary – Pam Thompson
Treasurer – Craig Holland
Cross Country Representative – Pete McKenzie
Down Hill Representative – Pete Miller
Committee: Brendan McDermott, Alan Strong, Brett McIntyre, Ian Wright, Yvette McKenzie

Memberships for the 2010/11 year are now due. Membership fees for the 2010/11 year are unchanged:
$10 Unwaged/Student
$15 Individual
$20 Family or Couple

Membership applications and payment can be made online - go to the membership page. This is the preferred method of application and payment. Joining online will also help us avoid the lengthy queues at the start of the Winter Series races.

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Oceania MTB Champs

 

These were held in Dunedin in March with most of New Zealand’s top cross country and downhill riders competing. The level of competition at all levels was outstanding on some pretty testing courses. There’s a few pics of the action online at 2010 Oceania Champs >>

 

 

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Ever wondered how those mountain bike trails get built?
Check out Mythbusting the trail pixies and all will be revealed …

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Southland Mountain Bike Club’s 2010 Club Champs
Bluff Cross Country Trails

Sunday 28th February 2010 

Results >>

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Bluff Hill Trails

Map >>

We’re opening up the trails for everyone to ride! Please make use of them and enjoy them. Even though there is still a bit of work to be done on them we feel it’s best to have mountain bikers out there as often as possible riding the trails, it’ll help deter the local motor bikes from riding them and the trails should pack down with a bit of riding and some fine weather.

Note: Please only ride the singletrack trails in the direction indicated below (anti-clockwise), we don’t want any head on crashes.

To access the trails:
• When heading in to Bluff turn right up Liffey Street
• Turn right at MacDougal Street, park up and get the bikes out.
• Bike up the access road and follow it right around past the water storage tanks - there’s a bit of mud to get through but we’ll fix that in the future and a few tree roots to negotiate.
• Once past the storage tanks follow the access road up the short steep hill and up to the start of the Green Day trail.
• At the end of Green Day head downhill along the access road to the start of Weezer
• Bike up Weezer enjoying the views, log and rock rides along the way
• At the trail junction you can take a shortcut down the Fixx or stay right and ride up to the highest point
• Enjoy the ride down but keep alert, this isn’t like Sandy Point and a couple of the corners tighten up
• Carefully desend down off The Fixx and across the access road to dDub
• dDub is the newest trail so it’s a bit wet in places so try not to muddy it up
• at the end of dDub trurn left and you can ride up Green Day again or follow the access road back to MacDougal Steet or detour thru the trees on the way down.

As mountain bike riders you are allowed to ride the trails. Motorbikes, scooters and horses aren’t!
Please don’t park on Flagstaff Road, doing this will only jeopardise our access to the trails in the future.
Look after the trails they will only get better in time but we need to look after them. 

Bluff Hill Trails Construction - Photo Gallery >>

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