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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Community Ride Ewen Maddock Dam 5/12/2020

Bushrangers Community ride Ewen Maddock Dam December 6/12/2020. With a quick pre-ride discussion about the ride ahead and a warm welcome to several new members to the Gang, we set off west in anticipation of a relaxing Sunny Sunday Cruise. Wide Open tracks and gently undulating hills around Ewen Maddock dam made for an easy roll and time enough to have chat and chew the fat. This is a perfect place to get your confidence up with some optional side-tracks offering steeper climbs and fast smooth descents for the more adventurous in relative safety. Several riders taking up the challenge of “Ewan Maddock climb” finding the fire in their legs and then unleashing back down to the pack. The Swamp of skanyness traversed without incident then open the taps along Steve Irwin way to Brewhaha coffee mid ride in case anyone levels of Caffeine had dropped below the legal limit Ha Ha. Temperatures on the rise indicated time to hit Ferny forest for a Quick...

December 9, 2020
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Sugar Bag Caloundra 20/9/2020

Sugar Bag Caloundra 20/9/2020 Sugar bag is one of those last remaining inner suburban bush areas with MTB tracks accessible to the locals and visitors to the area, what a brilliant facility for people to live life to the MAX !!! and carve it up on all styles of MTB’s. This place is like a Cherry Ripe in a salad (I know what id prefere!!!) brilliantly set up & maintained by the local club CORCA. Bushrangers ready to roll but a couple of bikes refused to cooperate with a chain breaking in the car park and a disrespectful seat post dropping when not asked, best to get mechanicals out of the way early.  Santa (Cruz) came early for Paul V riding his new magic carpet in the lolly shop. Objective to ride all tracks which involves so many creative features, double sea saw, numerous timber rollovers, high windy raised skinnies, mega log rides, steep drops and sandstone rock gardens, big rock rolls.  Lots...

September 23, 2020
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Atkinson Road Parklands 13.9.2020

Parklands Atkinson rd  13.9.2020 Crazy times Crazy Weather, September is usually the driest month not so this year more like Autumn than spring. With the Social ride at Radar side and Club ride at Atkinson rd side. Great to see kids with mums and dads riding so well in Parklands some real talent coming through the ranks…. A tight nit group of club riders set off down Red Dog track… giving more downhill track time than flying down Phoenix which was to be a bit skatey from a recent shower of rain. Regrouping at the 4 ways and heading up Chairlift to gain altitude before hammering ”Upper NZ “ then “Beehive” partially for maximum Rock Culture, topped off with a brutal attack of “T track” down to the end  of cancer tree.  Much debate ensued as to recent track realignment of CT with only positive affirmations voiced. A tree down on CT utilised the Bull Elephants in the group to remove it. Blue Tongue and...

September 16, 2020
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Mapleton to Cooloolabin dam Wet weather alternative 26/7/2020

Well it looks like La Nina might be on its way as our planned ride was foiled by the MTB weather gods, possible due to riders not spending enough time kneeling & cleaning bikes??, this has now changed with recent rains/mud…. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/updates/articles/a020.shtml So, the Mapleton highlands were called upon, Launch point Lillyponds, 10 devout riders gathered in the mist headed North on Mapleton forest drive through tall timbers and subtropical rainforests. The challenge was to avoid the tyre grit when descending at high speeds, you know what its like riding with one eye shut and the other blurry with eye watering speed Yaaah Hoooo & hang on tight to the bars,  corner what corner???.  Down towards Cooloolabin dam stopping to show newer riders some of the scenery. Lots of side tracks and potential loops for later exploration were passed up before arriving at the Dam wall for mandatory photos and linguistic exercises (possibly called Bull shiet). A different loop was put into action...

August 1, 2020
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Cooloolabin- Pt Glorious June 2020

Cooloolabin Dam ride June 2020. If there is one way to thin a MTB ride it is to add the wrong ingredients bit like making a cake without the chocolate, cream, butter, sugar and not cooking it. Well in this case it mattered not that it was cold, overcast, raining on the coast, mid-winter with low light and some drizzle. The Genie was in the bottle and was about to be released as the decent down “Bottle and Glass” downhill track was the icing on the cake and the lure of the ride ahead. 15 trail hardened riders assembled at the Yandina BMX track determined to make the most out of the gloomy day, and they did.. Splitting in two groups with the traditional ride being started by 7 wayward  Bushrangers with a warm up pedal along Browns creek road before facing the demon in the bottle (and Glass) fire road with a climb of 4.8km and 333m elevation, recently graded and hard packed...

July 1, 2020
Miles Porteous
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Lake McDonald to Pomona

Lake McDonald to Pomona and Back June 2020. Drive, Drive, bikes off cars, bags, helmet, gloves, phone, Strava on, water, Hi, Hello, sun, good weather, hi , hello, chat, chat, how far, oh really, yeh, nice bike , yer new tyre, blah blah, hello and welcome new members….. Ride preamble, Launch ….Pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, Puddle, turn, brake, pedal, pedal, stop, pedal, brake, creek crossing, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, brake, bad language, mud , hill , pedal, low vine, mud , sand , tree roll over, turn , turn, turn, , Pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, Puddle, turn, brake, pedal, pedal, stop, pedal, brake, creek crossing, pedal, pedal, Jungle , Jungle, Jungle, pedal, pedal, brake, bad language, mud , hill , pedal, low vine, mud , sand , tree roll over, turn , turn, turn,  Pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, Puddle, turn, brake, pedal, pedal, stop,...

June 21, 2020
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Hidden Vale Away Ride June 2020

Bushrangers Hidden Vale June 2020 Its been a long time coming but the wait was worth it for this great away ride. Best ride ever.   With the long weekend for the central sunshine coast a group of enthusiastic riders hit the trails on  Friday, after recent mid-week rain the tracks were in pristine condition and recent track works made some of the weathered tracks flow to the point of euphoria. The track names are a dead giveaway of what to expect like Devine, Gorgeous, skyfall, Ripple effect, Hopping rocks…..check out trail forks App. If you have never been to Hidden Vale this place will be etched in your memory as each track you ride has its own unique adventure and character, you will be planning your next trip in no time. Friday night at the campground, stars out crisp air and a nice warm fire with great MTBer company, was another great reason to escape to the country town of Grandchester. It’s not only the visual...

June 16, 2020
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Community ride “Wooroi” Tewantin june 2020

Tewantin “Wooroi” Community June 2020 Beaming with enthusiasm existing and new club members were eager to challenge themselves with the flowy trails of Wooroi after some time off from club inactivity. WOW Mountain biking has taken off big time, a real positive spin-off from Covid ISO. Nice mix of bike types present… New Ebikes, Hardtails, XC dual suspension, trail and endure style bikes, really was like a big jar of colorful jellybeans. Mixed with riders young and older. Just goes to show its 80% rider and 20% bike, all bikes are good…and welcomed. Catering for a range of skills and Covid compliance the more vigorous riders headed off earlier to complete the full repertoire of tracks lead out by the single speed Swami Johnny. A fairly hot pace was set by the older hands up and down the hills and gullies, it was noted that everyone was wearing their baggy riding shorts so the group was renamed the “Soggy bottom boys” no lycra...

June 8, 2020
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Parklands Atkinson rd ride 8/3/2020

Ride report Parklands Atkinson road 8.3.2020 If ever you are faced with the decision to ride a single track on the Sunshine coast after some rain or predicted, then Parklands Atkinson road side could be for you. With  gloomy weather and light rain falling a hopeful crowd of Bushrangers eagerly watched the much feared blue pixels on the Radar slowly disappear. Seems to be a modern phobia among riders waking in in a cold sweat after visualising blue, green, orange and red blobs of rain on the BOM radar. Sometimes it’s best not to look and JUST DO IT. It worked today. Keeping on the weathered but rocky tracks weaving through gums and native grasses the team regrouped at the 4 ways, Percy the ebike was in protest mode with Di2 technology jumping 4 gears at a time we think this was due to impure thoughts by the rider !!, While the single speed XC hard tail threw its rider off in a...

March 10, 2020
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