What a great way to spend a June Sunday morning – rediscovering the trails on Mt Lofty near Redesdale.

25 riders headed off ready for the challenges the old 24 hour track had in store – and challenges there were, not the least of which was finding the actual track! Parts of the Mt Lofty Park had been burnt in the Black Saturday fire and much of the single track was hidden by bushy re-growth and littered with fallen branches.

Plenty of opportunity for Mary to practise lifting the back wheel – thanks for the coaching, Toby!

There was a fair amount of “bush bashing”, sticks through the spokes and damaged derailers but we were rewarded with some great flowing single track in the unburnt areas and an entertaining “mad downhill”!

We had a really enjoyable morning, great to have so many turn out – looking forward to exploring more new areas on our next ride.

Here are the summer series points for the 09/10 summer series.

There are a number of people that can take out the top spot this week and to make it even more of a challenge its a double points race. so instead of getting 40 points for the #1 spot it will be 80.


Note: We have removed 3 races from the system due timin malfunctions and no one received points for these.
 

Race results for tuesday nights race can be found here!

January 2010 saw the running of the 2010 SRAM MTB National XC Championships in Adelaide. A number of Bendigo riders attended the event and were successful. Congratuations to all that completed. Those who finished on the podium include: Jo Wall 4th in the Elite Womens, Ash Harvey 2nd Sport men, Garry Lewis 3rd Supermasters men and  Allan Leslie 3rd Sport men. Peta Mullens flatted 2km into her last lap while coming 2nd in under 23's.
All results can be found here:
2010NationalsXCOday1Results.pdf (PDF - 117 Kb)
2010NationalsXCOTeamRelayResults.pdf (PDF - 51 Kb)
2010NationalsXCOday2Results.pdf (PDF - 111 Kb)
View photo's of Nationals at http://picasaweb.google.com/BendigoMTB/Nats201002#