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.

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Mac’n’Bak Ride Summary 17/12/2017

Planning these rides has become a lot easier as I’ve been updating OpenStreetMap for so long – the route for this ride was thrown together in around 15min although it helps to have knowledge of the area. This route took into account that Lake Macdonald was spilling and therefore the creeks were going to be up and there was a likelihood of a fair bit of water still sitting around. Turns out that there is no getting away from giant mud puddles sitting across the trails so there was a bit of awkward skirting around them much to Kathy’s and Marty’s demise.

This could be the mud puddle that poor Kathy lost her shoe

Good weather and what looked like a cruisy ride attracted 25 riders to the Cod Park meeting point and without much dilly-dallying we set off just past 7am towards the first mud puddle. We snaked through a bit of ‘Trail 4’ of the Noosa trail network towards Hamilton Rd which will take us onto an access road/mud pit and onto ‘Trail 7’. This route mostly follows the boundary access road of the Yurol State Forest before crossing over Yurol Forest Drive.

Someone made a good joke about how this is what happens when you are actually able to bunny hop a fat bike

Just before crossing Yurol Forest Drive there was a badly washed out culvert with half the road missing. Hopefully this will be fixed up someday soon as it’s been that way for quite a while now. Michael took the opportunity to stick his bike into it and take a picture.

On the Pomona side of the Yurol forest we continued along the access roads and took a small detour that loops back around towards the township – this section is pretty fun as it’s mainly downhill and the wide corners help you maintain speed.

Stopping over at Pomona for cake and coffee for around 45min we set off home back through the forest but this time taking a more direct path. I would normally keep going and cross over 6 mile creek but since the dam was over it would have been a swim. So we went to the end of Kennedys Rd and turn back down the road of giant mud puddles.

It wasn’t long before we were back at the cars and washing our bikes off at the canoe ramp. 30km with a stop over and while it was a bit hot everyone had a good ride.

Ben Johns
Club President

 

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December 24, 2017
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Bushrangers Weekend Roundup (9th/10th December 2017)

Hey Bushies,

Well that was a big weekend on a few different levels. Not only was the weather a bit extreme but we also had our end of year BBQ and Movember prize draw at Paul’s trails on Saturday and our regular club and rookie rides on Sunday morning.

Miles and Todd finishing a lap

We were fretting about the weather all week after already having to postpone the BBQ once already. But although it was a bit hot and humid at 1pm it cooled down nicely later in the arvo and the storms held off until well after 6. We had a great turnout of members and guests and since the trails had drained well and were riding beautifully some of us got a good bit of riding in and got to check out all of Paul’s new additions to his trails.

Congratulations to Peter Bigaila and Graham Reeks for winning their prizes for our Movember challenge and congratulations to all the winners who won something in the prize draw. I also hope you were pleasantly surprised that contrary to vicious rumours there was actually none of my underwear in any of the prize bags.

On the Sunday Nambour hadn’t had that much rain so we figured Parklands would be OK to ride. This was not case as Parklands must of copped all the rain that Bli Bli did and it was rather wet in there. So we cut the ride short and avoided all the new work and tried to stay on the trails that had drained quickly. There may be a trail care day in Parklands on Saturday so we could probably have a team go off and work on the drains in the problem areas – stay tuned for more information.

Thanks to Paul and Trish for being great hosts (and providing cheesecake), Greg for doing another great job on the BBQ and to everyone else who came and had a good time.

See you on the trails!

Michael “Cheesecake is awesome” Johns
Club Secretary

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December 12, 2017
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Movember 2017 Results – Mission Accomplished!

[caption id="attachment_4624" align="alignright" width="300"] 2017 Movember Results[/caption] So Movember has finished and the dust has settled. We can now relax our leg muscles from all the riding (and our neck muscles from counterbalancing our impressive moustaches all month). We successfully rode the 10000km but it did get a bit dicey there with all the rain in the last week hampering our efforts. According to our STRAVA group the total kilometres was 10402.9km. The individual total kilometres are below with the obvious winner being Pete Bigaila who rode 1958.8km with his regular 100km rides and the GBOMB 9hr endurance race. We raised $1764 for the Movember Foundation with the biggest fundraiser being Graham Reeks who raised $574 through good networking and selling bespoke bike moustaches.  If you forgot to give a donation to the team you still can at https://moteam.co/moustaches-and-mountain-bikes-sunshine-coast-2017?mc=1 Who had the best moustache? Well that's a hard one to answer. There were some seriously awesome moustaches this month and we can't announce a winner as...

December 7, 2017
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Lake Weyba Ride Summary 26/11/2017

Hi Folks,

Nothing like a rainy day to write up the Lake Weyba Ride summary, so without further adieu…

28 riders ready to roll!

On a somewhat cloudy morning 28 riders prepared themselves in the car park near Peregian Beach for a 30km ride around Lake Weyba. We set off just past 7AM (unfortunately just missing Lumir and Alan who got kidnapped by Siri). I had to drag the group up a hill straight off the bat so I quickly got my first satisfying fix of everyone wailing and moaning. We then nipped across David Low Way and after a little bit of bitumen we were on the dirt and skirting the southern perimeter of the lake through grassy fields and paperbark forests.

We navigated around to where the single track starts through the southern reaches of the Noosa National Park. This bit of track consists of sandy soils, roots and grass. and holds up well to all sorts of treatment, as made evident by all the trail bike marks along it. Regardless of it being sandy it tends to hold water and there were regular puddles all the way along it, this helped feed our bottom brackets their fill of grit.

We sneaked under the Sunshine Motorway through a little known pedestrian tunnel that Michael tries to name “Pedestrian tunnel of death!”. But there is nothing deadly about it – he just puts “of death” onto the end of everything to make things sound more extreme. At the eastern entrance of Wooroi we offered the option of anyone who wanted to go it alone and do a few loops of Wooroi but as there weren’t any takers we continued on and headed back down a firebreak that crosses a stream and runs alongside the golf course.

John had to do a quick adjustment but then bridge was good to go again

Zig zagging through the small streets like BMX Bandits (that’s an old 80’s movie kids) we cut though a ‘back track’ that had a make-shift bridge and into the Noosaville commercial estate. Here we got to whiz through the back of Noosa Civic Shopping centre and onto the Eenie Creek Road cycleway (there are great cycling facilities around Noosa). We followed this over the bridge and into Noosa Springs.

At the end of Leslie Drive is where we hit the sandy soils of the eastern side of Lake Weyba. This was the most anticipated/dreaded section of the ride – those with fatter tyres and/or motors were looking forward to the soft sand and those with traditional tyres were not. The wet weather had helped bed the sand down a bit but there were sections that felt like you were riding up hill even though it was flat. However the different vegetation and nice views along this track made up for the extra effort as it is quite unique compared to where we normally ride.

After the sandy tracks were done we tramped sand through the back streets of Peregian Beach and rode some more grassy easements back to where we started.

Big hello to everyone especially our “long time no see” members, it was good to see you. Also a shout out to our new member Michael who made it through the whole 30km, nice work!

Ben Johns
Club President

Lake Weyba Ride Nov ’17

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December 1, 2017
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End of year BBQ this Saturday (02/12/2017) – RSVP now.

[caption id="attachment_3818" align="alignright" width="300"] Jens leaning around a berm[/caption] On Saturday the 02/12/2017 we will be having our end of year BBQ at Paul Vandeleur's house in Dulong (behind Nambour). Paul has been busy making some impressive trails on his property so we'll take the opportunity to ride them and organise an informal time-trial event for anyone who is keen. Time: 3:00pm 2nd December (Saturday) 2017 Where: Paul's House at 32 Ruwoldts Road, Dulong, Queensland What to bring: Bike, sunscreen, chairs and drinks (any fancy food or nibblies you would like extra to the snags). Club will provide sausages, meat patties, condiments, bread, soft drink, salads and sweets. RSVP HERE - https://goo.gl/forms/sEc763yyAPWluA6p2 Note: If you plan to ride on the day please read and accept the MTB Rules and Liability Release form on the above link. If you are bringing along others who are not club members/MTBA affiliated and they wish to ride on the day please have them complete this form separately with the MTB Rules and...

November 27, 2017
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Camping Trip 03/01/2018 – Toogoom/Promisedland – RSVP 24/11/2017

Yo, all you happy campers. After collating the feedback and doing a ring around to camp sites our January camping destination is Bundaberg - Toogoom/Promisedland. Being Chrissy hols many campsites are booked out. But fear not we’ve found a place to pitch our tents / park our vans. We are heading to Bundaberg from Wednesday 3 January until Saturday 6 January. You are welcome to stay more or less nights - that’s just when we’ll be there. Details Distance from Nambour: 250km Campsite name: Wyper Park Scout Camp (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1432553283438666.1073742009.257303157630357&type=3) Cost: $10 per site / per night (includes 2 people) Payment: Cash at site Facilities: They have showers and toilets and a table area. They are building a camp kitchen (including BBQ), which may or may not be ready. Riding: Promisedland and Toogoom. Other:  About 10km into Bundaburg Suggest dinner at a pub in Bundy 1 night  About 30km to beach for post ride swim Promisedland is about 1/2 hour away Toogoom is about an hour...

November 12, 2017
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Ewen Maddock Community Ride Summary 05/11/2017

Hey there Bushies,

Sorry about the delay in the ride summary but I just keep getting distracted by my beautiful moustache. It’s just so hard to type and twirl my tips at the same time.

So last Sunday’s Community ride went anti-clockwise this time so we headed along the pavement to the Mooloolah township and then through the old railway tunnel in Dularcha national park and had mid-ride coffees at Landsborough. The more energetic riders shot off and did some of the nasty hills in Dularcha and met us at Landsborough afterwards. Some of the beginner riders then came back through the dam trails with me while the others went on to do Ferny Forest.

The group got split up in Mooloolah as a train went through. As patience isn’t one of my virtues but showing off is, Ben and I employed some Cyclocross (CX) skills and threw our bikes over our shoulders and ran up and over the pedestrian bridge. I regretted this decision by about the 5th step up – heavy fat-bikes are not for running with!

Bike Moustache – increases both air resistance AND awesomeness!

Similar to the recent Cooroy ride we stopped for coffee at a central spot so everyone could wander off and forage for their coffees/cakes from any of the nearby cafes and bakeries. With the larger rider groups we get now (this ride had 42 of us) this concept works out good and we end up supporting a lot more local businesses too.

Graham showed up with the first order of his bespoke “bike moustaches” for us. I got a sexy orange one to match my wheels (because that’s important). Thanks Graham! If you want one you just have to donate $10 to Graham’s Movember page and he’ll whip you one up.

Being such a big group and trying to cater for everyone’s tastes does make things a bit hectic but big thanks to all our seasoned members who keep an eye out for everyone and made sure no-one gets hurt and lost. Thanks for coming everyone and a big hello to new riders Teena and Aden, Nick, Tanya and Patrick and anyone else I missed.

Movember 10000km Challenge Week 1 update: 24 riders, $1040 raised, 2880km ridden. Come join us here (you don’t need to grow a Mo).

See you at Parklands!

Michael “My moustache reduces my milk intake” Johns
Club Secretary

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Tewantin to Cooroy Ride Summary 29/10/2017

Regrouping before Cooroy

I borrowed most of this route from one of Richard Poyner’s group rides. It was a ride good for cruising a decent distance but kept interesting with the occasional bit of single track and the odd tunnel and swamp.

We were mostly all ready to go at 7am and after some quick announcements and a failed attempt to get our Social Coordinator Greg to take his credit card to pay for the mid-ride coffee, we set off. 25 riders (bushies, distinguished guests and new riders Kate and Eric) headed along McKinnon Drive.

We entered the northern reaches of Tewantin National Park. There’s a sneaky single track that runs along the northern parts of the park parallel to McKinnon Drive called the ‘sunken gardens’. Its tight twisty and lumpy surface makes for an interesting challenge and it’s a far more interesting route than the road. Nice work to whatever trail fairy does that work in there, we appreciate it!

Exiting the sunken gardens takes us onto Old Tewantin Road which is a bit of a boring climb however there’s a kinda of a neat creek bed crossing and pinchy climb in the middle that is fun to try and do without ‘dabbing’ (touching the ground with your foot). This took us up to what is known as the ‘worm farm’ which is a trail that goes through Six Mile Creek so there’s usually a water crossing to contend with if it has been raining recently.

A bit further along Ring Tail Creek Rd we hang a left onto Porters Rd, through the Yurol Forest, hopping over Yurol Forest Rd and heading south towards Cooroy via ‘Trail 8’. At this point there were some mechanical issues that were quickly sorted with help from John. The trail has been changed since the Bruce Highway upgrades in the area so it was a bit of exploring for me. We came across a tunnel under the highway with a skinny bridge going through it – I suspect this is used by the various critters around so they don’t drown. We rode through the tunnel and nearby swamp without issue and hopped onto Mary River Rd which took us the rest of the way into the township of Cooroy.

Our large group ended up setting up camp in the middle of town and we all went off and foraged for coffee and food, it was good to distribute our patronage across the many establishments. After coffee we relived our youth and did a couple of quick laps of the local BMX track and then crossed the railway tracks atowards Cooroy Mountain Rd. We climbs over a nice bunch of hills and were presented a great view of Cooroy Mountain. This is where Will developed a puncture so the main group waited in the shade while the tail-end guys assisted him (…by watching).

It wasn’t long before we found ourselves in the familiar territory of Wooroi so we split up into three groups and went various ways through the trail network before meeting at the day use area and heading back to the cars.

Great day, nice ride, rad people, sun was a little bitey.

Ben Johns
Club President

PS: Here’s an excellent video of the ride, thanks Lumir!

 

Tewantin to Cooroy Loop

Tewantin to Cooroy Loop

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