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)...
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...
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! ...
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...
Hello All. I am happy to announce that we will be having a trail care afternoon on Saturday the 6th of July from 1 pm (meet at the Radar hill road car park). We have work to do installing posts and hopefully some new signs at the Cancer tree/Tazer/Blue tongue intersection and the 4-ways intersection near the waterfall. We will also attend to some of the drainage issues as we make our way around. Will post more details soon but any help will be most appreciated. Will Newton ...
Here is Toby's ride report from Facebook. Coolum to Wooroi return was today's ride. But before the ride even started I popped into Coolum to wish four Bushranger MTB women good luck as they had left their bikes at home and were about to start the 35 km walk in aid of mitochondrial disease. Hope you all have fun Tania, Amanda, Emma and Wil. So 11 riders set off but not long in Dennis had mechanical woes and had to call it. Up through Peregian Beach and across to Murdering Creek through to Weyba road and out at the RSPCA unit. We had a couple of requests to keep the pace at 24km/hr - no idea why. Into Wooroi we went and up Wallaby then down to carpark. Tried to find a bike charger for Terry as he was on two bars. We then went down Bloodwood up Daydream and down Milkmaid. Miles fell in luv with his hardtail again. Heading home Greg (The...
Greetings Bushrangers, This is a heads-up that we are changing the full moon ride on the 19th of June from Ewen Maddock to Trish and Paul Vandeleur's lovely property on Ruwoltds road, Dulong (that's behind Woombye/Nambour). We have all been so privileged to have had access to this beautiful spot in the past and it looks like this will be the last time, so now or never people. Come and thank Paul and Trisha by bringing your lights and appetites to enjoy a full moon spin and BBQ. We may even rustle up some previous committee members for an informal and overdue thanks for all the good times. Hope to see y'all there on the west side of town. Check the calendar for more details. Will ...
Hey Bushies. Today's ride was at parkies. 14 keen riders turned out with a couple of guest riders. We had Will's sister (Hannah)and his niece (Luca) who is a very strong up an coming junior. She handled Parkies with ease even after racing in the Bayview Blast yesterday. After a big v lap we run into Fluffy the resident emu who was just about to start a coaching clinic with Foxy. Up through Cancer Tree. Up the SSS's over and down Rock-a-dial to 4ways. Through the Meadows up TNT then up Shit hill over NZ to top of Radar hill then down Rocket man and finish on the old fav Ho-chi-ho. Good loop no major incidents and no lost riders. Some riders went for shit coffee but I went to 711 for great coffee - Yum! Have a great week. Ride hard stay safe. :o) Toby! ...
A big congratulations to Michael Johns for winning a Nicklin community award for service to mountain biking on the Sunshine coast. Michael has (and continues to) contributed greatly to our club development in a variety of fields, though you may know him best for his role as secretary. Thanks for your work MJ! There wouldn't be a club without your efforts. Will NewtonClub President ...
Hey everyone, Sunday's ride sounded great. Below is copy of Toby's report from Facebook. Ok hello mtbers. Bushies ride this morning was at Glasshouse mountains and what a glorious morning. We started off with 12 riders and rode down Steve's way to the famous drop bog and I think Neal got swallowed up as we lost him. Not blaming the tale end Charlie at all. We then went along Caves Rd and up around tibbro lookout. Mike decided to stick it up all the e-bikers by going in reverse up the stairs. We lost another rider but this time due to mechanical. E-bike. Then headed around over the sandstone stepping Stones up to another lookout. Mike took lead and found some hills up to the big Glasshouse lookout. That was when Di phoned an Uber e-bike delivery. Oh and Kerry found walk mode on her ebike. We then went down to wave rock for a play where Chris was like a kid in a candy...
