Hey Everyone, The Sunshine Coast Regional Council is looking for community feedback for a master plan for the Caloundra Town Reserve (this is where the Sugarbag Road trails are). Check out the following link and complete the survey and have a say at what happens there (could even win $300!). https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Living-and-Community/Community-Engagement/2017/Caloundra-Town-Reserve Submission close 5pm Friday 10 March 2017....
With the AGM quickly advancing next month, it is time to reflect on our aims and achievements of GoG.I.R.L. (Get Into Riding Ladies).
The key questions are:
From the squeals and numbers of ladies that turned up to our February GoGIRL ride in Sugar Bag last Saturday. The answer is a big YES! YES! YES!
Had a few punctures on the weekend's ride so Ben thought that we should put up some information about setting up your wheels as tubeless. Now tubeless has its pros and cons and you have diehard supporters on both sides. Some people prefer the support a tube gives the tyre and it's a lot simpler to setup. Other people like how tubeless setups prevents general punctures and "snake bites" and can be run with less pressure which gives more grip. Below is a great video from the guys at GMBN taking you through a tubeless setup BUT remember it's not a big cost to get your local bike shop to do it for you. Once you have tried to furiously pump air into a tyre that doesn't want to inflate you might appreciate the tools and experience a bike mechanic has to offer. https://youtu.be/Q89NTR2yNyc...
Hey everyone,
OK, I promise not to do any poetry about Wooroi today (we had a person unsubscribe from the newsletter after that last Wooroi summary so I’m taking the hint and keeping it low brow!).
The day was perfect for a ride and we coagulated in the carpark to wait for the ride briefing and admire the new steeds that had entered our horde. Murray had bought along his highly anticipated turquoise Yeti SB4.5 with the colour-coded wheels and golden drivetrain. Did you know that the colour turquoise is a “color that alleviates feelings of loneliness but relates to being either over-emotional or non-emotional, lacking communication skills, being unreliable and deceptive”. So if I was being an aloof twat to anyone today it was Murray’s bikes fault.
The other new bike was Rod’s new Canyon hardtail. This thing looked great but with it’s unbelievably light weight it suspiciously smacks of some sort of anti-gravity doping or even just some run of the mill inter-dimensional weight transference magic.
Thanks for the new bike shelter guys!
Last week we received our new fully branded club marquee and wave banners paid for out of the Gambling Community Benefit Fund grant. This completes our brand refresh with website, logo, letterhead, jerseys, t-shirts, social media and now event equipment all aligned to the club identity that was established at the beginning of 2016. Thanks goes to club secretary Michael for all graphic design work and organising.
Come bust ya ass at Bottle 'n Glass! [caption id="attachment_2604" align="alignright" width="300"] Bottle 'n Glass trail behind Yandina[/caption] Hey Everyone, Now that we have the awesome timing gear and other race paraphernalia we are going to start doing some races . Smaller ones for glory and bragging rights and some major ones for prizes...
Hi Folks, Noosa Shire Council are working on a new Sport & Active Recreation Plan that will inform them on which direction to take for future development. As we're frequently riding around Tewantin, Pomona and Kin Kin we can help ensure that mountain biking gains focus by contributing. Both locals and visitors can respond. Past sport and recreation plans have been the catalyst for significant state government investment. That’s why it is important this document paints an accurate picture of our local sport and recreation sector and any opportunities for improvement. You can contribute via the Noosa Council's 'Your Say' site here. Thanks to the Noosa Trailblazers for pointing out the survey....
The large calendar fridge magnets as prizes were a bit underwhelming.
Now I don’t know about you but I like to divide my day up into sleep-time and not-sleep-time. The ratio can vary somewhat but I usually get 7-8 hours of sleep each day so I guess I’m a bit of a traditionalist that way and I’m OK with this. However Bushrangers member Pete Bigaila probably looks at this 8 hours of beautiful sleep I have and thinks “Sleep Schmeep – you could be riding your bike!”.
Yup that’s right, Pete likes to ride his bike for the whole 24 hours, it’s his thing. He trains for these races by doing daily 100km rides and he even does a few of these at 2am in the morning because hey, why not! It’s not like he should be in bed or anything.
New member Mal reports on the Sunday morning Boneyards adventure to ‘Brisbane’ and back
Ride map and elevation
On reflection – which you have plenty of time to do when mountain biking to Brisbane and back – I probably should have studied the title of the ride “Boneyards Extended Edition”, a little more closely. But in my defence I hadn’t joined a club ride since getting my MTBA membership last year and I was keen as mustard.
A total of nine intrepid explorers – John, Waza, Will, Paul, Mike, Toby, Neil, Nick and myself – set off from the Glenview Cemetery and quickly got the heart rates up as we criss-crossed our way up and down the hill. At the top ride captain John introduced us all to Ross. We all enthusiastically started to welcome Ross only to discover there was no Ross among us. The group then welcomed the other new rider (me) to the Sunday morning adventure.
While the regular club ride was happening we put on another “Rookie Ride” for our beginners to get some more rides in and pick up some good tips by doing the opposite of what I do.
The wonderful Ferny Forest green level trails were chosen because its a good 10km loop, not too difficult, easy parking and now it has coffee!
Pretty sure Ben is sucking his guts in there!
Emma, Marty, Mike, Tania, Ben and myself starting off at 7.30am but we had guest appearances from Jason Daw, Susie and Sonja as they did their laps of Ferny Forest. I was planning on taking it easy, do the one lap, then coffee and chat afterwards. We ended up doing 2 laps and I even had an attempt at giving some line choice tips at a rock garden (but everyone just nailed it perfectly so it wasn’t really necessary at all – good job!). Overall the ride went great and there was only one itsy bitsy stack where a front wheel washed out on some loose stuff at the bottom of a gully but there were no serious injuries.
