Yahoo Winter is coming. We all know what that means!!!

Round 1 of the H & J Outdoor winter series

With just over a month to go the first round of the winter series will be held on Sunday the 7th of May. The usual race format at the trails at Sandy Point. We are fortunate enough to have our very generous sponsors H & J Outdoor back on board for another year, supplying some great spot prizes for all. If you need anything to get your bike in shape for the upcoming series, or feel you should update your faithful stead, or just want another one (lets face it you can never have too many), head in store and check out the hugh range of bikes on offer.

Southland Mountain Bike Club AGM

This will be held on Tuesday the 11th of April at 7 pm in the Sports Southland rooms at the SIT Zero Fees Velodrome. Please come along and join in the fun. If you have some spare time on your hands and would like to join a very rewarding committee, chances are we have a space for you. All office positions are up for grabs. Following the AGM will be the April meeting starting approx. 7.30 pm in the same room. We look forward to seeing you there.

Working Bee on Bluff hill

Tomorrow evening, Tuesday the 21st of March we will be holding a second working bee on Bluff hill to endeavour to get on top of some gorse, broom and plant growth. If you are able to lend a hand all helpers greatly received. Meet in the carpark on Pearce Street around 5.30 or make your way up the trails to find the crew. If you have snippers, clippers, weed eater or just your self we would appreciate the help.

Forestry Activity at Sandy Point

This is over and done with for the time being. Thank you all for observing (for the best part) the signs and restrictions in place over this time. We will be working on getting the trails in the Waddick area reinstated in the near future for your riding pleasure. Who knows your new favourite track may just appear out of the ruins.

Arrow 6 + 6 Adventure race

Looking to go to the next level with your riding, check out the Arrow 6 + 6 adventure race being run by our friends at the Southland Tri Club. This will be held at Sandy Point and would be a great way to test the waters of adventure racing. For full details check them out on the attached linkSouthlandTriClub .

Southland Commercial and Car Painters/ Automotive Solutions 8 hour

The date for this has been set this year for 17th of June. This seem like a long way off but entries will open soon for this. The time is right to start thinking about your teams and giving some serious thought to your training. Thanks again to our sponsors and we look forward to seeing as many teams as we can on the tracks.

Club Memberships for 2017/2018

These are now due for the upcoming year. We are moving to a new website and system for running these this year we are just in the final stages of formalising this. As soon as we have we will let you know. The system promises to be more user friendly and we look forward to switching to this. As always please help us out by joining the club, your memberships and funding received goes a long way to assisting in new trails and the events we run. Every member helps.

Bluff Trails

Over the New Year break we had a couple of guys from Dirt Art in Australia over doing some great work in Bluff. With a substantial tidy up and realign of the first downhill section from the access road on hill back to car park and some all new trail the network in Bluff continues to grow and grow. If you were thinking of heading to Bluff this is the perfect reason to go. Remember as in all new trails please familiarise yourself with the changes before hitting them to hard. There are some great features and well worth a ride.

New Newsletter sign up

As part of the new computer system this will be one of the last emails sent out under this site. We will be asking you to sign up for the new system if you wish to continue to receive the emails. We will let you know when this happens.

Big Bike film Night

Tuesday 30th May 2017 at the SIT centre stage theatre. Spinning some wheels with an impressive lineup that includes a stylish look at London's bike culture, the remarkable story of an American Bike Frame Builder; an absorbing attempt and challenge of cycling up the gruelling 1912 metre peak Mount Ventoux, two very different faces of BMX, with contrasting stories and styles. We also have the homegrown 'Muscles and Dreams' documentary, which follows a bunch of good keen men transforming an idea for a gold miner's road from the 1800's into New Zealand's longest continuous single-track - The Old Ghost Road on the West Coast.

Run time - 120 minutes plus 15 minute interval.

Should be a great evenings entertainment check out the trailer and details HERE , then you're your tickets and come along.

Enjoy your riding look forward to seeing you on the trails.

Brett McIntyre