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Announcing MTBSSN - the Mountain Bike Strategy for Sydney North


Rob's picture

By Rob - Posted on 10 December 2009

Announcing MTBSSN - the Mountain Bike Strategy for Sydney North!

This idea was born following from the NPWS Sustainable Cycling and Mountain Biking Workshop with NPWS staff and many cycling organisations from the Sydney North region and further afield.

This site has been created for the user consultation and planning phase of a project that will hopefully become, or add greatly to the overall mountain bike strategy in the region. It isn't just for mountain bike riders, but for anyone with an interest in trails in the region. Even opponents of riding are encouraged to take part in this consultation.

If you do not take part in these discussions then when things start moving, perhaps in a way you don't like, then you (no matter what side of the argument you are on) will have no-one to blame but yourself!

As I'm assuming most people reading here will be riders please take a moment to visit this site and add your ideas that will become part of a 'trails wish-list'. It doesn't matter how crazy, how unlikely your idea is, just get on over and post it up anyway. Of course it would help greatly if when posting you explained why the idea is a good one, from user, community and ecological point of view. Also consider the ease of construction and maintenance and sustainability of the idea (ie. straight down a fall line of a steep hill would be a big no-no: too easy for water to channel and cause errosion).

Hopefully the more ideas the community comes up with, the more likely it is some of those ideas will be found acceptable by all parties involved and some of them make it all the way from planning to acceptance and eventually implementation. Well - that's the dream, let's try and make it happen!

One last note: because the MTBSSN site is built on the same platform as NoBMoB, if you have a login for NoBMoB it will work on MTBSSN so there is no need to re-register to get involved.

BT's picture

Nice work there Rob, so this is your creation?

Rob's picture

... it's a community initiative. Nothing to do with me!

BT's picture

Well I see you've been pretty busy on there already! Smiling

Looking forward to seeing how it progresses...

philberesford's picture

Excellent forum Rob. Great initiative by all involved. I've added my new path. Wishful thinking I know, but it would be nice to be able get from The Dam into Cascades all off road.

http://mtbssn.info/node/11825

garyinoz's picture

and I second the Dam to Cascades trail, that would be pretty good.

hairylittlehobbit's picture

Has this been posted elsewhere, like rotorburn? More eyes on it, more ideas.

nrthrnben's picture
Has this been posted elsewhere, like rotorburn? More eyes on it, more ideas.

Posted it up on Rotor just now, in the national parks(have your say) thread

http://www.rotorburn.com/forums/showthread.php?p...

Top work Rob, NPWS and all others involved!

Bikersteve68's picture

Link to [http://www.mtbssn.info/] no longer works? Is the initiative over now? Shame,,,maybe the council would prefer the Twiters or FaceBooks?

Rob's picture

Yes, sadly this site is no more. A few people had a look and proposed some ideas but not many.

Interestingly the NPWS recently asked people to send in their GPS trails. Same but different?

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