Category: News
Gippsland MTB Committee 2009/2010
After the AGM the committee welcomes quite a few new faces to the team for the next 12 months. It was an extremely successful night with a number of people in attendance and a lot of valuable feedback given as to the future direction of the club. The outgoing committee members presented a review of the clubs position with what had been achieved in the past 12 months and what was current underway in relation to events and trail advocy.
While there was a fair bit of change on the committee, a number of foundation committee members remain to maintain a flow of knowledge to the new members. The committee is the club for the next 12 months is now as follows:
Blores Hill Checkpoint Race – 23-Aug-2009
After the success and feedback from the recent Colquhoun 3 Stage Race, in particular the “Rally” Stage of that event, we are holding our first Checkpoint Race at Blores Hill on Sunday 23-Aug. The goal of this event is that competitors ride to and find as many designated Checkpoints within the Blores Hill MTB Complex…
Forrest/You Yangs 3 Day Weekend – Nov 6-8
Have you ever asked yourself what is better than one day riding beautiful flowing singletack on some of the best trails in Victoria? How about 2 days riding beautiful flowing singletack on some of the best trails in Victoria! But wait, there’s more. How about 2 days riding beautiful flowing singletack on some of the best trails followed by one day riding some of the best technical tracks in Victoria!!
If this sounds good to you then take Friday November 6th off work and book in for GMTB’s first big weekend away with Friday and Saturday exploring the trails around Forrest and then stopping off at the You Yangs on the way home for a Sunday fling.
Tour de Colquhuon – 26th July
Watch Lance, Alberto, Cadel & the Schleck brothers climb Mont Ventoux the night before, then get inspired to climb the only hors category hill climb in the Colquhuon Forest: Alpe de Oil Bore which sits 14 metres above sea level, only marginally lower than the 1912 metre Mont Ventoux. What: Gippsland MTB Four Hour Enduro…
Mt Hedrick Social Ride Weekend: 8/9 August
Saturday: Mt Hedrick Social Ride Saturday 8 August sees GMTB return to Heyfield, however this ride is catering to the more extreme riders in the club. We will be traversing trails around Mt Hedrick that are on the more extreme side of XC riding. It is mostly loose rock descending into fast singletrack that should…
GMTB AGM 18-Aug-2009 in Traralgon
Have you ever been to an event and wondered how it happened? Or had an idea for the club but did not know how to start? Well we have positions for you.
Since the club has been running for a bit over 12 months now we will be holding an Annual General Meeting on 18th August 2009 at the Traralgon RSL (94 Kay Street). This is your opportunity to put your hand up and take on a role to help with the running of the club. The agenda for the meeting can be found here.
Blores Hill “Bring A Friend” Pig Race Report
It was a sunny day at Blores Hill on Sunday, June 28. The perfect day for a pig race with a group of unsuspecting newbies to the sport of mountain biking. The idea of the race was fairly simple, everyone who comes is to bring someone who has never really ridden a mountain bike off-road competitively. The score was to be based of the basis of at the end of each lap, each member of the team rolls a pig each from the game Pass The Pigs and the score is given based on how they land. This opened the results up to everyone so the fastest riders only are not in the clear for a good score.
48 riders turned up, with about half being new to the sport as some teams stretched the newbie rule such as Adam Downes bringing some sort of Triathlon champion while Dean and Sam did not have any other friends so they rode together as per normal. There were a few rules given by the officials at the riders briefing, you were not aloud to “drop you friend” with a 50m rule strictly enforced, points were at the mercy of the scores with penalties awarded as they felt for whatever they thought of and a strict enforcement of Rule Number 1. Rule Number 1 being anyone caught taking it too seriously will do their next lap naked.
Blores Hill Track Maintenance Day
On Sunday, July 12th we will be holding a trail maintenance day at Blores Hill. Blores has been getting a lot of use over the past 12 months from both race and recreational riding and is starting to show signs of wear and tear.
If you have ridden Blores Hill then this is a good opportunity for you to put back in to help maintain the quality of the trails out there. Big Max has done an excellent job up to this point, but it is getting beyond the point of one person being able to fix small issues here and there. He has developed a list of jobs to be done from cleaning off fallen branches to repairing trail damage.
June Social Weekend Report
20 people turned up to Munjara camp on Saturday 13th of June for the first Blores Hill night ride. It was quite a good turn out considering that not everyone has lights as a part of their normal mountain bike gear. A few people bought lights to try out this night ride thing, so there were a few newbies to the wonders of night riding, as well as Johno giving the night riding “one last go” because he only tries it in the worst conditions.
Gippsland MTB Three Stage Race – 24-May-2009
Before we begin, some very important observations were made during Sunday’s race.
- The CROSSCO Clock is a thing of beauty.
- Some say the pen is mightier than the sword. I say the dim sim is mightier than the potato cake.
- Ben Blackman is a bit of a legend.
- The lycra boys had a win. All is right in the world again.
- If you think that a cycle computer put on with insulation tape whilst the briefing is underway might not work effectively, you’re probably right.
- When a woman gives you instructions, do you think it will be the easy, simple, short route or something a bit more gruelling & involving pain? You be the judge.
Blores Hill “Bring A Friend” Pig Race
The idea of this race is to bring a friend who has never raced in a MTB race before. It is just a way to encourage our sport to keep growing. If you have never raced before then this is your opportunity to come along and have some fun as everyone in our events are…
June Social Weekend
Saturday: Blores Hill Night Ride After a few requests for night rides, we are running our first night ride as a social event at Blores Hill. For those of you that do not own lights and don’t want to miss out on a ride, there is a daytime social ride the following day. See below…