MTB Skills courses - get your application in for the ones in November!

New Plymouth Mountain Bikers Club in conjunction with the TSB Community Trust and Mountainbike Adventures are offering more of these one day MTB skills courses in November. Places are starting to fill up for these courses, especially the Phundamentals course on the Sunday, so get yours in now and don't be disappointed.

We are offering the courses on November 24th and 25th 2007.
9.30 am for a 10 am start through to a 3.30 pm finish.

Venue:
Lake Mangamahoe Mountain Bike Park, SH3, New Plymouth.

Courses:
Trailmaster #1 on Saturday 24th for those who have done a Phundamentals course.

Phundamentals on Sunday 25th for those who are new to skills courses or want to refresh the basic skills.

Groups:
Each course will have a maximum of 16 riders and the tutors from Mountainbike Adventures are happy to have a mix of skills.

Download the registration form from below and mail it in along with your entry fee to claim your place:

NP MTB Club
PO Box 139
New Plymouth 4340

These courses are bought to you with the assistance of the TSB Community Trust. The course will be cheaper to attend if you are either already a NP MTB Club member or you join the club as well as attend the course.

Contacts:
Email: graeme_mtb@clear.net.nz
Phone: Graeme on (06) 757 2062 or (027) 242 4842

Download the course application form (right click on link and do a "Save Target As") :

http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/publish/Rocket_Engineer/PublicFolder/F.pdf


And get it in to be part of the fun!

Track working bee happened on July 1st

Seven brave souls made to the working bee on Sunday. So many thanks to these workers, they did clearing type work on the existing network of tracks to the east of the main ridge track. Agreement with the NPDC hadn't been set up for the proposed new tracks, this will hopefully be achieved in the next few weeks.

The image shows the proposed new tracks in the southern area that extend the recently developed tracks. The proposed tracks are shown in purple.

When is the next working bee going to happen? Keep a look out and it will be as soon as we get agreement with the NPDC.....

SO WHEN: See above!

New map of the tracks at Lake Mangamahoe available!

The current MTB trail network for the Mangamahoe Forest is currently being mapped using gps technology. The latest results of these efforts has been superimposed on a Google Earth view of the area. Some additional tracks have been added since the weekend.

The map can also be downloaded by clicking on the following link:

http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/publish/Rocket_Engineer/PublicFolder/Manga.pdf

Best printed on a colour printer at this stage.

The first two MTB Skills courses happened in June

16 riders had the benefit of learning new riding skills over two days in June along with the Mountainbike Adventures tutors James and Gabrielle.

Both days were set aside for the first course in their series, "The Phundamentals" - a great time was held by all. More courses are to be run in November - see above.

TET Masters Games Race Report

The sun shone on the XC event that was part of the Taranaki Electricity Trust sponsored Masters Games for the first time. 40 riders turned up on the day along with a stream of spectators to the mountain biking facilities at the Lake Mangamahoe Forest just south of New Plymouth. There were 32 male riders and 8 female riders in the various age groups; 30 - 39 yrs, 40 – 49 yrs and 50+. The women raced around 3 laps while the men did 4 laps of the 6 km course. In use for the first time was a new single track section of the forest that has been developed over the past 12 months by the New Plymouth Mountain Bikers Club.

UK based New Plymouth Mountain Bikers Club member Jenn O'Connor, fresh from her success at the NZ MTB Marathon Champs at Colville, raced away with the women’s 30-39 yr old class proving that she is no slug with the sprint version of XC racing. With her doing a 4th “warm down” lap, she came in 4th of all those that completed 4 laps. It was great to have our NZ rep competing even though she was on holiday.

Jenn finishing off her 4th lap:
Lian Brownson from New Plymouth was coaxed out of semi-retirement by the rest of the club’s committee to ride and she won the 40 – 49 yrs class. Hillary Frewin from Inglewood competed along with her partner Newton and came in first in the 50+ yr old class.

Tony Brownrigg from New Plymouth, fresh from his 6th in the same age class at the Karapoti earlier in the month, completed the 4 laps a clear 4 minutes ahead of Brent Simpson in the men’s 30-39 yr old event. Brent distinguished himself with a great crash right in front of the event tent at the end of lap 1; it is a pity it wasn’t caught on camera! This grade had the greatest number of entrants with 17 lining up at the start and 15 finishing.

Tony finishing ahead of his dog:

The 40 – 49 yr men’s grade had 10 entrants and New Plymouth cycling stalwart Vaughan Smith came in ahead of the others. Plus he came in 3rd of all the men’s entrants.

Allan Caird from Wanganui came in first for the 50+ group – good to see our Wanganui neighbours coming up and enjoy our good weather.

It was fun putting on the event and the club looks forward to it next year again being part of the Taranaki Electricity Trust sponsored Masters Games.

Diane Stewart and Glyn Jonas heading off from the start line on Lap 1.

Here is the link to either view or download the complete results (right click on link and do a "Save Target As") :

http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/publish/Rocket_Engineer/PublicFolder/TET.pdf