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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2015 Member Survey Summary and Results

Hello everyone,

Bushrangers Logo 2016 - Colour-01In the next couple of days the 2016 Bushrangers Member Survey will be sent out and unlike the recent census we won’t ask you weird questions about your sex life and hopefully we won’t have a major database crash halfway through. Below is a summary of last years results and what has been done about them.

The 2015 survey showed the following issues were important to our members:

  • Update website
  • More activities for women
  • More coaching clinics/skills training
  • More participation at races as a club
  • More camping events
  • More variation in the ride locations
  • Winter/Summer hours (Start rides later in winter)
  • More information about the rides (i.e. how long and how difficult they’ll be)
  • More advanced rides (longer distances, more challenging, less stopping).

The overall satisfaction rating was 3.7/5

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September 2, 2016
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Parklands MTB Trails Project – Grant Submissions Done!

Today we submitted our applications for the Get Going Clubs grants. These are in addition to the recently submitted Gambling Benefits Fund grant and a Sunshine Coast Regional Council grant. These applications are the result of hundreds of hours of preparation by many people from Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services, Sport and Recreation, Sunshine Coast Trails Alliance, Council, the local community and the Bushrangers committee. Thanks to everyone who helped us and thanks to the trail builders who submitted quotations for the work. A big thanks goes to the following people who helped strengthen our application with their letters of support: Ryan Guest (99 Bikes) Ben O'Duhring (Castara Empresa) Daniel Yujnovich (Crankwork Cyclery) Steve Ossedryver (CORCA) Hayden Lester (D'Aguilar Range Cycling Club) Marty Webster (EnPlusOne) Susie Hume (Go-GIRLs) John Searston (Have Fun Tours) Tony Vella (Nambour Alliance) Bruce Campbell (Nambour Christian College) Greg Hale (Nambour Rotary Club) Royce Vandeleur (Palmwoods Physiotherapy) Melissa Taylor (Parkrun) Mal Keeble (Sunshine Coast Cycling Club) Kurt Martin (Sunshine Coast Regional Council) Shaun Lauder (TAFE Queensland) ...

September 1, 2016
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Bushrangers Ride the Redback

Last month was a 4 day, multi-stage race called The Redback and it's held in lovely sunny Alice Springs NT. This is a place where 'snake bite' punctures could literally be caused by a snake bite! The event has 6 different stages: Stage 1 - Central Communications 40km Cross Country Race Stage 2 - Rapid Ascent 300m ANZAC Hill Climb Stage 3 - Endura 22km Individual Time Trial Stage 4 - Cyclecover 22km Night Race Stage 5 - Lasseters Hotel 50km Cross Country Race Stage 6 - Chifley Alice Springs Resort 45km Cross Country Race [caption id="attachment_1548" align="alignright" width="300"] Graeme finishing stage 5[/caption] There were over 130 riders and our own Rod Brannock and Graeme Hall went over there and did pretty bloody well with Rod getting 1st in his category and Graeme getting 14th in his. For more details and results for each stage check out the website at http://www.rapidascent.com.au/theredback/ Nice work guys!  ...

September 1, 2016
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Chicks In the Sticks Race Summary

What a colourful event! There were feathers, tutus, even some strange looking he/shes! Many ladies got into the spirit of the event, including the GoGIRLs (the pink ladies) and dressed up for the occasion. Once we had cheered on the Little chicks in the Sticks, the chicken nuggets and the Chick-a-dees, we assembles for the mass start!

After the race briefing of important points such as “track right’ means stay to the left whilst the person overtakes you on the right (not go right),“stopping” well we can work that one out but remember not to block anyone’s path. A down arrow means a steep descent and more arrows means it’s even steeper with a dismount area! That had some of the roadies worried, who were thinking I thought this was just a ride for fun. Other women were thinking, it’s slower to walk may as well ride! Good on you Helen, that’s the spirit!

Fun it was, but far from a walk in the park.

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August 29, 2016
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Yandina/Cooloolabin Ride Summary

It was a glorious day to ride to Point Glorious. A ride featuring Jez from Venture Cycles, Mal from the Sunshine Coast Cycling Club, and Lester from the Noosa Trailblazers and a few other new faces as well – thanks for coming guys I hope you enjoyed yourself. Hello to past member Jason Daw who stopped for a quick chat as well.

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Terry about to show us his breakdancing moves

All up there were 21 of us at the Cooloolabin Dam Trail Head (with 11 starting from Yandina to tackle the Bottle and Glass Road climb). To get a few more kms Gavin rode in from Buderim and Brad rode in from Mapleton.

Yandina was 5°C and that tends to make hopping out of the warm car and stripping down to a thin layer of lycra not very fun, but #cyclinglife and #yolo and all that. “Why were people wearing their lycra on the outside today?” I hear you ask.  Today was the day that Ben, Gavin, Lester and Murray were going to “groadie” (gravel roadie) it up to the Pt Glorious lookout to show us all what a gravel/CX bike can do! Although they had to tentatively negotiate the descents they made up for it with speed on the flats and hills.

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August 29, 2016
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Welcome to Venture Cycles!

[caption id="attachment_1437" align="alignright" width="300"] Click here for website[/caption] Hey there everyone, This Sunday's Yandina/Cooloolabin ride will be the first "Support your local bike shop" ride (it really needs a better name). Venture Cycles will be riding with us and we aren't sure what cool bike they will be bringing along so come along to find out and have a chat to the guys from Noosaville. This ride will be both a MTB ride and also a "gravel grinder" ride for people wanting to bring their CX or Gravel bikes.  I'm keen to see how these modified road bikes perform around Cooloolabin Dam. Remember there is two start points this ride. Yandina at 7.15am (grade 4 - 40km) or Cooloolabin dam at 8am (grade 3 - 20km). Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/venturecycle/...

August 24, 2016
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Bushranger’s are in the Multisport Mecca Magazine

[caption id="attachment_1427" align="alignright" width="213"] Download the PDF[/caption] Hey everyone, The Sunshine Coast Daily invited us to add some MTB-specific information for their Multisport Mecca Magazine. It's a good read and has information about all things sport on the coast. Check out the Bushranger's write up on page 10. If you can think of anything we can put in the next edition let us know at info@bushrangers.org http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/sunshine-coast-multisport-mecca-august-24-emagazin/3080918/...

August 24, 2016
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Australian Mountain Bike Market Profile Survey 2016

The Australian Mountain Bike Market Profile Survey is back. The survey produces useful information that benefits everyone including us as we're using the data in our grant applications. The report of the last survey undertaken in 2014 can be found >here<. The survey's purpose as as follows: The purpose of the survey is to establish demographic and market profile data of the Australian mountain bike industry. Survey results will be made public, and will be available for use at no cost or obligation- this survey has been designed to assist all facets of industry research including; retail and production, tourism, events, land management, and trail design and development. The aim of the survey is ultimately to provide key industry figures, land managers and agencies with current and relevant data to enable the development of mountain bike products, services, experiences and facilities that better cater for Australian riders. If you have a bit of spare time please complete the survey by going to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MTBmarketprofile2016...

August 22, 2016
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Wide Bay Series – Race 3 Results

[caption id="attachment_1415" align="alignright" width="295"] Shelley and Donna scoring 1st and 3rd respectively[/caption] Congratulations to all club members who raced at the third and final race at Garapine yesterday. Fantastic effort and great to see us supporting local races. Notable mentions: Raechelle (Shelley) winning her category of sport women along with, Donna with 3rd and, Kerrie with 4th Royce taking 3rd place in the expert men category Paul taking 8th place in the masters men category For all the results, check out https://www.webscorer.com/race?raceid=77420...

August 22, 2016
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Ringtail Forest Ride Summary and the Mud from Hell

Hello ‘rangers!

Well what a lovely day for riding! That bit of rain last night had me worried but we ended up having beautiful weather.

Twelve intrepid Bushrangers met up at the cricket grounds in Tewantin and we were prepped and eager to go at 7.30am sharp. Ride leader Ben gave a curt ride briefing (he used his big boy voice) and told us that this ride was not going to be 35km but actually closer to 45km! OMG!! I hear you say. But do you think any of us whinged about this extra workload?!…. well, yeah, there actually were some groans – but we sucked it up and started riding because WE LOVE TO RIDE! (bonus points for sneaking club motto in, aww yeah!)

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August 21, 2016
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