I have noticed as I am going by on the bus over the last few days there has been some sort of contractor mob at freedom jumps with the gate open.

Does anyone know what is happening there? Are they building or demolishing?

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Can you please help me get the message out to everyone.

Tell your mates and get them to tell theirs.

The biggest potential we have for more legal trails or not losing more informal ones is in getting approval from the majority land owner in this region that is not NPWS.

TrailCare has been working with the traditional owners and guardians of this land and meeting them for some time now and things were going well.

However this is being jeopardised (20-40km of AM trails at Red Hill and Oxy) and we had to do some smoothing over today.

I just wanted to say a few words about the MTB community and specifically the guys that frequent the trails on the Northern Beaches.

I’ve been actively riding my MTB on the Northern Beaches tracks and trails for the last 12 months. Up until recently I was riding a piece of crap Big W bike but I never copped any shit for it, people accepted that I was just out having a go and were always friendly. In fact when I busted a chain at the end of the Long Track at Duffy’s Forest every rider who came past stopped to check if I was ok and many offered to check if they had a spare link.

Hi,
I am a year 11 student currently doing a research project for geography. It involves picking an issue in your local area and researching it and providing the results in the form of a 10 minute presentation.

I have chosen to do mine on the Blue Mountains eastern escarpment bike trails as it interests me and i have seen the issue reported numerous times in the local paper.

I was wondering if anyone has any information, links, contacts ect. That would be able to help me with this work.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

For teaching kids how to ride.

Have a look at the video, a guy pushes a bike with no-one on it and it stays upright.

http://www.thegyrobike.com/

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Following the very divisive deal done between the Liberal state government & Shooters n Fishers Party which has allowed permitted shooters feral hunting in National Parks,whilst us MTBr's are at early tentative steps in securing singletrack in NP's(apart from Glenrock & the Royal) do we take a next step?.Yes we have organisations who are working with NPWS on such programs(GTA & Trailcare) hoping to achieve this,but is it enough?.Do we try & form a political party to represent us?

I ride the dam a fair bit, and thought i might take my video camera out and try and film most of the track while people are riding past, and see what the end result is. When is the post popular ride time, i am guessing 10am-12pm? I am normally there at about 730am and there are not too many riders out then!
Thoughts and comments....

Introducing the Kowalski Classic

For nigh on two decades, local trail building legends Paul Cole, Alan Anderson and the mysterious Kowalski Brothers have been hand-crafting trails in the ACT region. Thanks to their work, Sparrow Hill and East Kowen Forest have become single track nirvana. The innuagural Kowalski Classic gives you the chance to race it all in one hit. Ride the Bird, then the Kow, then the Bird, then the Kow!

FULL DISTANCE (Circa 90-100km):

I have been flying an experimental aerial filming rig for the last 6 months and want to try chasing some guys on bikes.
I heard there was a solid jump line up at Redhill or Oxford falls somewhere?
Is anyone interested in hitting it or other interesting features in return for some free footage?

Here are a couple of recent films I made with the quad:

http://vimeo.com/34655114

http://vimeo.com/39791408

Hit me up if you are interested.

Thinking maybe it's time to protect those (becoming old) knees.
From what I see around, seems that Six Six One brand is quite popular.

What's the difference between these?
http://www.torpedo7.com.au/products/66PRKN9VW/ti...
http://www.torpedo7.com.au/products/66PRKN9V9/ti...

I only do XC, no DH.

What do you have guys? Do you reckon it's necessary?

You guys have some great tracks around here. You've obviously got some very dedicated trail fairies around your way!

I visit the Central West (Mudgee, Dubbo, Orange, Bathurst and Lithgow) from Sydney about once a month with work and bring my bike when I can. I've riden Geurie, Kinross and Rydal and am going to try Mugga Hill out in a few weeks time. What's it like? Is it similar to the other 3 tracks? I'm just wondering which bike to bring.

Thanks,
Jason

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