About Our Club

Our club was formed in 1993 and incorporated in 1995 when mountain biking (MTB) in Australia was in its infancy. Since then the club and the sport have gained popularity through advocacy and participation. The Bushrangers MTB Club is a volunteer based organisation run by enthusiasts, for the benefit of promoting and supporting mountain biking across the region.

We do regular rides all over Sunshine Coast and SEQ from Cooloola to Brisbane, in national parks, state forestries and council parks. Check out this website for more information on events, news, and for places to ride.

Latest News

December 2019

Bushrangers Ride Report 22/12/19 “Bone Yards” Jungle Extravaganza

A hard-core group of enthusiastic MTB jockeys assembled at the Corbould Park race course car park for a guaranteed adventure into the Jungles of Bone Yards. The field was split into two groups with Wayne taking the Open class steads and Toby taking the Maiden Class. Toby’s Class group followed in hot pursuit with a similar selection of tracks ridden hard with some of the Open group dropping back to a more sustainable pace for self-preservation.  Some of the techy jungle tracks could have come from a Phantom movie with high humidity, Creeks, Palms, Vines, Pygmies?? Skull cave… maybe not. You get the idea this is a great riding area with more potential. Some challenging tracks including downhill gnarly rocks and roots, twisty single-track gullies, hot dusty fire trails made for a great ride with Objective achieved “Maximum FUN!!” by all classes of the field.  The Maiden group managed to win overall cup by a 2-minute margin arriving back...

Ride Report 15/12/19 Gympie “Victory Heights’’ Strava Spaghetti

The lure of flowy trails, easy double jumps, smooth burms, plus the promise of aromatic coffee and food was enough to attract an eclectic group of riders on a wide range of bikes including single speed Steel hard tail, Dual suspension alloy and carbon framed steeds with a mix of suspension travel, ebikes new and old. With an early start to beat the heat the faster group blasted off into the twisty trails with the intention of riding every trail in the park lead by Rod who always sets a cracking consistent pace. Eagerly awaiting take off The tracks while dry hold up incredibly well with reasonable grip provided you don’t get too game and load the front wheel up. Toby lead the “less air” group through the maze of decimal numbered tracks giving new members some challengers and skills to be honed in future.  Only a couple of lie down moments with no injuries sustained. As the group moved...

Parkies Ride Report… (luckily) without Hangovers

Yesterdays Parklands Post Xmas Party Ride started with a solid turn out of riders including new member Jeremy and visitor Grant from North Brisbane, great to see such enthusiasm early on a Sunday Morning. The whole crew was quite fresh considering the jelly shots at the party seemed 9.5 parts vodka and 0.5 part jelly (just enough jelly to give the vodka some colour)...

2019 AGM Report – from the new President

The Bushrangers AGM was held on 30/11/19 with a core of enthusiastic attendees having very positive and constructive input into the future year ahead. Items presented and discussed as follows. Secretary report: Emma has done an amazing job throughout the year keeping the wheels of the club rolling.  Emma gave an overview of the club’s major activities, skills training, Sunshine coast council Grant partnership, QPWS interaction, Social Media update. Emma  has been a pivotal member of the committee in the past year, learning the roll of club secretary with the ease of a new derailleur keeping the club in the right gear.     Treasures report: Financial position and standing, club audit. Great job and big thanks to Luke for the past year, much appreciate. Thanks to Katie for doing the 2018/19 audit. Vice President: Adam gave a very informative report on the recent member/non-member survey, this helps the committee guide the club direction for the members. Adam has also engaged...

MTBA Members Vote to Amalgamate with AusCycling

If you didn't know, the MTBA was looking to amalgamate with AusCycling - a new organisation set up to consolidate all sporting discipline to the one single entity. Mountain biking, cycling and bmx will be covered with the one membership. On 30 November 89% of members voted in support of the change. You can read about it over here on the MTBA website. It is expected to bring a raft of benefits - consolidating insurance and for those that participate in multiple disciplines, then you'll only need one membership. Don't expect to see anything immediate, except our club jerseys will have a new logo so keep an eye out for a promo coming soon for a cheap one :-) In the meantime, keep riding! ...

Launching Summer at Wooroi – with new ride time and a new President!

What a turn-out, with 22 at Wooroi for the first ride of the summer. The earlier start time (trialling 6.30am for summer) didn’t seem to worry anyone, although Linden did seem a bit rough early - bad bottle apparently (could have happened to anyone!)… John “the only dude who woo-hooo’s on the flat trails” Searston took off with the fast-ish group. And after zig-zagging up, down and through Wooroi, he went rogue and took us over through the forest and up the Demoraliser track.  Straight up the steepest hill within cooee on a fire road. And demoralise us it did, although Miles “mono” Porteous (aka The President) wasn’t fazed as he pulled off this manoeuvre at the top… The forest out here really is beautiful and worth a visit, with a few very gnarly and steep down trails it was great fun. Toby lead the rest of us to enjoy the great trails Wooroi offers. Riding bloodwood proved a challenge for our newest member with a...

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