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Gippsland MTB 3 Stage Race
What: Round 4 of the Gippsland MTB championship (aka: Lycra Strikes Back) Where: Forestech, Princes Highway, Kalimna Click here for a Google Map. When: Sunday, 24th May 2009 Registration from 9:00am Briefing at 9:45am Racing at 10:00am Costs: $10 Entry Fee $5 Timing Tag deposit (refundable) $15 MTBA Day License if not a holder of…
Vic DH Series Presentation Day
So Victoria has had its best State DH series ever!! Massive rider numbers, great tracks, tops as weather (Buller is an exception), and a really great vibe and good racing!! And to finish with the Big Hill…… sweet!! To finish up the series in the best way possible there will be a Ride Day/Presentation Day…
Glengarry Point To Point Race
A massive turnout of 37 riders attended Gippsland MTB’s first point to point race at Glengarry on Sunday April 26th. Considering the storms the night before and that the first round of Chase The Sun at Lysterfield was being run, this turnout exceeded our expectations. The day began with riders selecting to join either the short distance race at 20km or the long distance race of 26km. A majority of the riders chose the longer race option with 21 riders doing tackling the full distance and the remaining 16 riders attempting the shorter version.
Rawson-Glengarry Point To Point Race
On Sunday 26th April will will be running our first Point To Point Race from Rawson to Glengarry. Competitors will have the choice of start locations with two options of either approximately 40km or 20km. The meeting point for this event is the Glengarry Rail Trail car park and competitors will be shuttled up to…
VSS Rnd 3: Mt Baw Baw
Saturday practice had the 220+ entrants cramming runs thanks to the superbly organised transport. It has to be said that Gippsland MTB have raised the bar when it comes to transport; at worst, riders were facing a 10 minute wait at the bottom. Unlike some venues, Baw Baw definitely has the turnaround space and the access road to accommodate the number of vehicles GMTB supplied, and it’s encouraging to see a brand new club get it so right on their first attempt. Blue skies and temperatures in the low 20s made for great riding conditions.
Competition At Blores Hill Enduro Heats Up!
Sunday 22nd April was the running of Gippsland MTB’s 4 Hour Enduro Bushfire Fundraising Race at Blores Hill north of Heyfield. While the weather first thing in the morning was a bit doubtful with showers and storms in the area, once the competitors started arriving Blores turned on the good weather to show what this area is truly like with a sunny and hot day for the forthcoming battle for outright honours.
50 Competitors registered for this event to assist in this worthy cause with a good spilt between both Lycra racers and Baggy cruisers. The Lycra boys and girls were out in force to set right the upset of the last race where the Baggies dominated and took out the main point scoring positions.
The course was 10km of some of the best singletrack at Blores with switchback climbs, gully crossings and flowing descents with log jumps just to keep everyone on their toes. While the track was in excellent condition, it turned out that the heat was the biggest challenge to competitors with cramps taking a few victims in the final hour of the race.
Gippsland riders excel at state championships
Gippsland MTB has had a successful group of riders compete at the Victorian State Downhill Mountain Bike Championships at Mt Buller last weekend, featuring 234 downhill competitors on an energy sapping course in near freezing conditions. Gippsland MTB riders proved their skills during practice on the downhill course in horrendous weather conditions that some riders found…
April Social Ride Cancelled
Due to a conflict with Easter Sunday this year, our monthly social ride for April has been canceled. As it was the Easter weekend we thought that many people would be unavailable no matter which day we ran a ride that weekend. This ride was to be at Lysterfield MTB Park, however we have rescheduled…
Lysterfield Social Ride
The next social ride is scheduled for Saturday May 9th. This ride will be a bit different as we will be doing a “away” ride at Lysterfield MTB park. There a couple of choices for the day, you can either meet us at Traralgon McDonald’s for a 9:00 departure, or meet us at Lysterfield at…
Max’s 12 Hours in the Saddle
Some of you may have met him over the years as he is the main man behind Blores Hill and the excellent quality of the trails that we get to ride out there. He is out there as often as he can to clear off the trails, fix any damage and ensure that it is…
March Point to Point Social Ride
On Sunday Match 8th we ran the first Point to Point ride for a social event as a trial to see both how much interest there was in this sort of ride and also how the logistics of such an event would work. I am pleased to report that there were big ticks in both…
Mt Baw Baw DH race back on!
Mt Baw Baw has been rescheduled! This is the call out to you – our riding community to get behind GMTB and help support Round 4 of the Victorian State Downhill Series at Mount Baw Baw. We are after riders, friends, family, spectators and volunteers to get up to Mount Baw Baw on Saturday the 28th and Sunday the…