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Winter Series Rd 4 Brians and Scottys Track

The club held the 4th race of it’s winter series at Scotty/Brians track in the Sedgwick Hills on Saturday. 38 riders competed in the handicapped and primary school races on a 6.2km track. The sunny cool Autumn day made for good racing conditions with good lap times by most competitors. The fastest overall time went to Mark Flood with average lap times of 19 minutes over his 4 completed laps. The top 2 places went to young “improving” riders Russell Nankervis (1st) and Tyler Hamilton (2nd), who both were able to maintain consistent lap times and hold off the fast finishing scratch riders. 3rd went to Phillip Soute , with Echuca’s Nicholas Lee coming home strongly to take 4th following his good form in the 12hr of Hard Knocks the week previous. Youngster Gareth Baker held off the fast finishing field to finish 5th, special mention to Tasman Nankervis and Mat Kirby for there greatly improved lap times. The 5th rd is at the Cavagna’s rd track on Saturday 21st June at 2.00pm.

National Championships Canberra January 2008

Riders from the club travelled to Canberra over the long weekend to ride in the MTBA National Championships. The event was held at Mt Stromlo and run by Canberra Off Road Riders (CORC), the site for the 2009 World Champs and a roundd of the 2008 World Cup in August. Shelley Flood competing in the under 19 women category achieved our best result with a silver, Robbie Hucker was unlucky in breaking a chain while in the lead of the, hotly contested, under 19 mens category, to his credit Robbie fought back to finish 10metres behind 3rd place at the finish line. Jo Wall continued her improving coming in 8th in the womens elite field, Jo went out hard early in the race, and worked hard to maintain a top 10 place. Congratutions to Josh Fleming, Tim Hucker and Mark Flood who competed in the Elite category, with 65 other starters, vieing for Olympic selection. Ash Harvey finished in the top 10 of under 19's, congratulation to all club members who competed. Detailed results can be found at http://www.mtba.asn.au/

State XC Series 2 Rd

Find here the results from 2nd rd of the XC state series held on the 13th January. 160 riders were present on a dry and sunny day, with good numbers in the Elite category, getting ready for the MTBA Nationals. Well done to Robby Hucker coming 2nd in his 1st Elite race, and to the other club members who road on the day.

Handicapped Event 16/9/07

Sunday handicapped and Primary School event was held on the Cavagna's Rd Mary and Merrils Track, on the shorter 4.8km, with a total of 35 riders. The changes to the track were well recieved with the quicker riders (Josh Fleming) doing 14min laps, and the primary school riders (who did a big lap) doing a creditable 25min lap. Stephen Flood again continued his good form by winning overall and then doing a 5 lap to cool down. Closely followed by Darren Howell and Michael Floyd, with Nick Lee from Echuca and Tyler Hamilton, in his first race after stepping up from the primary school category. Gary Lewis again powered his way around the track, to take 6th, with Murray Willet riding well to take out 7th place. Commonwealth and Olypic representative Josh Fleming taking out the fastest time with 5 laps in 1hr 10sec, with his partner Jaci Low taking out the fastest womens overall time, and the 2nd fastest time.

The primary school event involved two different tracks, a lap of the long track or the usual 1km short track. Scott Chappell came in 1st in the long track with Chris Hamilton 2nd closely followed by Liam Greggs-Kennelly, special mention to Max Heiger who came 6th, not bad for an 8yr old on a small kids bike! The 1km track events was won by Aaron Knight followed by Kirsten Harvey.

3hr Teams Event

Sunday 22nd July saw the running of th clubs first 3 hr teams event. The events was well recieved with 48 riders in total including 15 f emale riders. The Cavagnas rd track had been revised to make it "more user friendly", shorter, less climbing and quicker, yet still fun and predominately single fast flowing single trail. Thanks to Mary, with the feedback from many riders reinforced these changes. The day started with one of the coldest frosts yet, but after a few laps people were quickly shedding clothes as the 13 - 19min laps, doing one at a time, introduced significant lactic acid into the muscles. Rob Huker and Peter Moronis established an early and eventually winning lead in the A Grade, closely followed by 3 teams who all finished within 4 minutes of each other. Jarrod Moroni pulled out the fastest lap, although putting up with having ridden a 200km road race the previous day and having a hangover. B grade was taken out by Tom Bastian and Nic Lee who both set consistent times, followed by Veteran Steve Flood on his full ridgid 7 speed and partner 15 yr old Russell Nankervis. 3rd was Jess Douglas from Geelong and 13yr old Tasman Nankervis with some amazing lap times, for his age. The 6 womens teams saw a range of riders, some of whom had not ridden a MTB event before, but had ago, which was great to see. Cindy Magro and Rosemary Britton came 1st with Penny Limmer and Sharon O Brien 2nd followed Ann Mc Inosh and Fran Medina. Congratulations to all who competed! This formate was huge success and promises to be bigger and better in the future. Click here for results

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It is with regret that I inform people that Justin Lowndes, a former member and co-ordinator of events for the Bendigo club, he was an active member of Rocky Riders club and supporter of Mountain Biking Australia wide, passed away on Thursday 10th May. Justin was an avid and enthusiastic Mountain biker, who, even after numerous transplants and operations, would get out on his Trek dually and enjoy the "bush". Justin will be missed by the MTB community and we send his family and friends our deepest condolences. Justin was and will remain an inspiration to many MTB riders!