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Trail Maintenance Day

Super D Race 29 Aug

RAMBO 2009 Poster

Buying a Mountain Bike - a guide by Mark Sullivan

Rowdy Flat Social Ride Info April 26

Mt Hotham Social Ride Sunday 15 March 2009

Commercial Club Cross Country Race - Round 5 Vic State XC

Race Volunteer Schedule

Secret Squirrel Crit

Course Map Wed 5 Nov

2008 Dirt Crits

The Nocturnal Cash Can Race Saturday at 6pm

Bicycle Superstore Albury Downhill Race - 23 November Info & Entry

Albury Big Ride

Huon Hill Social Ride

Bright Social Ride Info

RAMBO RD 4 Info

Livingstone National Park Social Ride Info

Nailcan Social Ride Info - Sun 22 June

RAMBO Rd 2 Course Map - Nailcan Hill

Baranduda Social Ride Info

2008 Annual Nail Can Hill MTB Ride & Ironman

This year's Nail Can sees a big change to the event with the MTB ride now being held on Saturday afternoon at 2pm. This came about due to the earlier start time of the run on Sunday morning (now at 9am). The course for the MTB ride will change also, but for the better with more single track being added to the course and a new finish location. The start will be at Lavington Panthers as usual but the finish will now be at the end of Range Rd on all the new awesome single track purpose built for mountain biking. This should make the event more fun than ever before and will give people the chance to do both the ride and run with a night's rest in between. Of course the Ironman/woman challenge will still be on for people that enter both events.

Entry form and Course Map

2008 Interclub Series Information and Poster

Mt Buller Social Ride April 12-13

Hammer Time 08

Here is the new race calendar for this years Hammer Time XC race series.
A night race will be held in May and winter sees a handicap series while the last 3 races of the year comprise the club XC championships.

Scody Multisport

The first inaugural Multisport was a huge success. Thanks to all the volunteers and club members that helped out over the weekend. All the MTB events were well attended and the feedback we had was that all the courses were loved by the riders travelling from out of town. Next year's event should prove to be bigger and better!

Social Ride this Sunday 16 March

Hammer Time 2008!

Scody 3 hour (4Mb) and Point to Point (6Mb) Maps

SCODY Albury Multisport Spectacular

Beechworth MTB Park Social Ride Monday 28 Jan 2008

2007 XC MTB Club Championships

Results for the 2007 club champs are below. Damian and Jayne have been leading the club races all year so they both have well deserved their wins for the year. Dave Schilg is clearly the fastest rider in the juniors and would beat most adults as well. Ann Schilg won without too much trouble with only a small field of junior female riders. It would be good to see some more females racing next year and with consistent efforts you could easily get a top result. The results are as follows:

Adult Male

1st: Damian Gillard

2nd: Paul Flemming

3rd: Geoff Schilg

Adult Female

1st: Jayne Grubits

2nd: Tory Thomas

3rd: Shelley Kamevaar

Junior Male

1st: Dave Schilg

2nd: Sean Moloney

3rd: Harry Chambers

Junior Female

1st: Ann Schilg

2nd: Katrina Rose

Race number plates will be issued according to your ranking in the results. There are quite a few occurrences where two or more people are on the same number of points so to obtain a clear result and rank accordingly we have used the following guidelines to determine placings:

• A third place race result is higher than 3rd place marshal points.
• The highest result a person gets beats combined points from lower placings.
• The highest number of laps achieved in a DNF will rank higher.
• The closer you finish in time behind the winner in a race ranks higher.

Hope this all makes sense!!!

Sunday Dec 9

Social ride starts at the Range Rd site at 5pm and will finish at Hovell Tree Park at 6:30pm
The BBQ (free of course) will commence there at 6:30 and we will present championship trophies and numbers about then.
Everyone is welcome to attend both or either the ride and BBQ.

We will however have no BBQ after our championship final on 24th November though we will still give away some spot prizes and provide cold soft drink. The course for that day will be ridden in the same direction (backwards) as last race but it will be 5 or 6 laps of a much shorter section of track. It should be a 40 – 45min race.

Downhill Race Map

October Social Get-Together

Next social get-together is on the Wednesday 17 October at 'The Lounge' in Dean St, Albury from about 6:30 pm.
It's an informal evening where people can get a bite to eat, have a drink, and talk MTB, club events, and anything else.
Anyone can come along including friends/partners/kids. See you there.

Labour Day Social Ride Mt Beauty 1st October

September Social Get-Together/Meeting

Next social get-together is on the Wednesday 19 September at 'The Lounge' in Dean St, Albury from about 6:30 pm.
It's just an informal evening where people can get a bite to eat, have a drink, and talk MTB, club events, and anything else.
Anyone can come along including friends/partners/kids. See you there.

Club Championships

The club championships will be held on Sep 22, Oct 20 & Nov 24 (More info). Points will be awarded as per current MTBA events.
1st = 80, 2nd = 65, 3rd = 55, 4th = 48, 5th = 43 etc.

2008 rankings and number plates

After the club championships have been run all AWCC members that have a result in the point score will given a ranking based on their results at the club champs and this will be used to issue personalised race number plates for the 2008 season. Yes, that right folks, for next year will be given your own race plate that you will bring along and use for each club race throughout the year. Numbers will be assigned to the following categories. So if you are the 10th fastest adult male in the club champs you will race with No. 10 for next year!!!

• Adult Male 1-49
• Junior Male 50-99
• Adult Female 101-149
• Junior Female 150-199

sample 2008 plate

Hammer Time Winter Series 07

The winners of the handicapped winter series are:

Adults:

1st – Damian Christian

2nd – Gareth Hunter

3rd – Mike Kirby

Juniors

1st – Brad Rose

2nd – Scott Simpson

3rd – Sean Moloney

New AWCC MTB Sub Committee

After our AGM this month the MTB sub committee of the AWCC will comprise the following people.
Brad & Brendan will have the general role of event organisation and overseeing all club activities while some people will have more specific jobs while still contributing to the MTB committee.

If you have any questions you may contact Brad or Brendan or speak to the relevant person listed below.

Brad Spinelli

Brendan Stewart

Geoff Schilg – Race Timing

Danny King – Interclub Liaison

Mark Sullivan – Down Hill coordinator

Jayne Grubits – Social Ride coordinator

Anthony Cheesman – Course Setup/Bunting

July Social Get-Together

Next social get-together is on the Wednesday 18 July at 'The Lounge' in Dean St, Albury from about 6:30 pm.
Again, it's just an informal evening where people can get a bite to eat, have a drink, and talk MTB, club events, and anything else.
Anyone can come along including friends/partners/kids. See you there.

Social Get-Together/Meeting

We have decided to start having regular social meetings on the 3rd wednesday evening of the month for everyone to come along and catch up. It's just a very informal evening where people may want to get a bite to eat or have a drink and talk general MTB stuff (and non MTB stuff!!)and discuss club events etc. Anyone can come along with friends/partners/kids. This coming Wednesday 20th June will be at Electra Cafe, Dean St Albury from around 6:30ish See you there.

Name our Races!

Hi all MTBers. The club is proposing to give our monthly Nail Can races at Range road a unique name! As you know it can be a bit confusing calling everything 'Nail Can' so we want to come up with a new name for these monthly races. This is where we want your input. Please think of a name that is not too long, rolls of the tongue easily and is something that people would actually use. The committee have started the ball rolling by coming up with a few suggestions but we want your ideas as well. Please post your thoughts on the forum with your name or email bradspin@bigpond.net.au or Brendan.Stewart@bigpond.com and let us know what you want it called.

Some suggestions are:

"The Hour of Dirt"

"The Hour of Goat"

"Cross Range Races"

"Range Races"

"The Dirty Hour"

Annual Nail Can Hill MTB Results

Well done to all the 139 riders that participated in the event and the 28 that did the Ironman contest.
There were some very fast times out there with the first 30 riders coming through in under 40min. Full results are now available. The Category placings are:

Overall (Male)

1st: Neil Van der Ploeg

2nd: Damian Gillard

3rd: Greg Featonby

Female

1st: Allison Skinner

2nd: Chloe McConville

3rd: Jayne Grubits

Junior Male

1st: David Schilg

2nd: Nathan Snoxall

3rd: Sam Giltrap

Junior Female

1st: Meg Davis

2nd: Ann Schilg

3rd: Siobhan Jones

King of the Mountain

Neil Van der Ploeg

Ironman

Neil Van der Ploeg

Ironwoman

Allison Skinner

Annual Nail Can Hill MTB ride and Ironman

8:00am Sunday 6th May 2007

Attn: $100 cash is up for grabs for the first rider to get to the top of the hill climb (3.5km) in this years Nail Can ride. Be the first to climb up the thigh burning hill and claim your money. Good Luck!

This annual MTB challenge is on again the same as previous years so start training and try to beat last years times. As usual it will start at the rear of the Lavington Panthers Sports Club at Hanna St Lavington at 8:00am sharp so please be early and register by 7:30. The Ironman and Ironwoman contest will be running again for those that do both the Run and the Ride and those with the fastest aggregate times over both events will win this category.
All the details are on the entry form so please pre enter now which will save you money!

Entry Form and Details

Thankyou to the following sponsors for their support in making this event possible.

The Full Cycle

Fleming Muntz Solicitors

The Commercial Club

Hamblin Hire

Albury City

Monthly Nailcan Race

Nail Can Hill, Top of Range Road, Last Saturday of every month, 4pm
We'll be holding regular races on the new track at Nailcan on the last Saturday of every month this year starting this Saturday 31 March. Formats may vary but expect about an hour of racing. Races start at the top of Range Road at 4pm with rego from 3:30pm. Cost is $5 per person plus MTBA licence if required. BYO food, drinks and spares.
Laps are around 7-10 minutes although as the track grows so will lap times :)

CLUB XC RACE!!!!!

Nail Can, Top of Range Road, Sat 10th March at 4pm
This Saturday 10th March we are holding a club XC race to try the new track up on Nail Can. The format will be a 1 hour enduro that you can do as an individual or as a mixed pair. The race starts at the top of Range Road at 4pm with rego from 3:30pm. Cost is $5 per person plus MTBA licence if required. BYO food, drinks and spares.
Laps will be approx. 10 min.

2007 Summer Dirt Crits

The most recent dirt crit series was capped off with last nights final. Racing was close and so were series points and I believe it was another good combination of competative AND social club MTBing - exactly what it should be. Again well done to Hot Lap and Series place getters and to everyone else too for turning up and making it what it is. Fast, or not so fast, old and young everyone is welcome and we have allsorts. We would like to thank the Schilg family for helping every week whether riding or not, everyone else that chipped in and MUM - the BBQ lady. We would especially like to thank The Full Cycle for once again giving us heaps of great gear to toss out as prizes. See you out there, BREN.

2007 Dirt Crits

We'll kick off '07 with another series at Thurgoona. It will be 8 weeks commencing Jan 10 and finishing on Feb 28. Prices will remain $40/$30 for the series and $10/$7 weekly for adults and juniors respectively. There will be some kind of discount for first time, weekly payers. The course will remain very similar, in fact, there may be an uncanny resemblance!!! We may run it backwards for a few weeks to start.

Everyone's welcome from beginners to experts!
Remember registration is at 6pm and racing kicks off at 6:30pm
Please fill out the attached entry form and bring along to first night
For those of you that haven't been it's at Roberts Rd (off Corry's Rd) Thurgoona

Final Thurgoona results

New Thurgoona pics

More race pics

Peta has cleaned out her camera!!!

• Gravity 12 hour
• Scott 24 hour
• Ballarat 6 hour

Thurgoona Dirt Crits Nov-Dec 2006

Standings and results

Thurgoona video

Gravity pics

Albury Wodonga Orienteering Club 2006 Mountain Bike Orienteering Championship 4/11/06

Here are the results.

Albury Wodonga Orienteering Club Street 'O' Summer Series

More information

New Thurgoona Pictures

Thurgoona Practice 1 Nov 2006 thanks to Geoff

Thurgoona Offroad Pointscore Series Entry Form

You can now download an entry form for the Thurgoona series.

AWOC MTBO Championships

The Albury Wodonga Orienteering Club are having their MTB Orienteering Championships on Nail Can on Saturday 4th November. More info

Beechworth-Eldorado Report

A report on the ChainGang's Beechworth Eldorado Race on 1/10/06

Big Ride Day Pictures

Here's a few pictures from the Albury Big Ride Day and "Take a kid MTBing Day"

Thurgoona Wednesday Night Dirt Crits

"Dirt crits are back!!! Start training and get fit for summer!!!"

Another 6 week series of Dirt Crits are starting up on Nov 8th at the Equestrian Centre Roberts Rd Thurgoona. A practice night will be on Nov 1st to get familiar with the new course and the race series will run every Wed night from Nov 8th to Dec 13th. Racing starts at 6:30pm with registration from 6pm. The first week (Nov 8) will see a scratch race and the results of this will be used to issue race numbers for the rest of the series. Example: finish first on week 1 and get the No. 1 plate for the series. Riders can also take their number plate home each week after paying a $10 deposit. A free BBQ and presentation will be held at the conclusion of the last week on Dec 13th. Spot prizes will be up for grabs each week with a major prize on the last night. The cost for the series is Adults $40 & Juniors $30 plus MTBA licence. Newcomers to mountain biking are more than welcome to come along and have a ride for just one night or the 6 weeks. The track is easy to ride and is a 4km circuit of single track. A flyer and entry form will be available soon. We hope to see some good competition amongst both the men, women and juniors!

Oct 1 is Big Ride Day

In conjunction with Albury City Councils "Big Ride Day" our club will be running a Kids' MTB session at Hovell Tree park as it coincides with the Mountain Bike Association of Australia's "Take a kid MTBing Day". There will be some fun skills instruction with a group MTB ride afterward. If anyone is available to help out on this day please contact a committee member ASAP - we need a few helpers. There will also be an offroad ride from Hovell Tree park for anyone not interested or too old (you're only old if you think you are) for the kids stuff, nothing hard just a cruise really. It will be a big morning including road bike rides and concluding with a BBQ and prize draw at about 12:30. There will be lots of advertising leading up to it.

Note that this clashes with the Beechworth Chaingang's Beechworth to Eldorado race. We expect a number of our members will attend the Beechworth race instead.

AWCC AGM and Social Function

Don't forget the 23rd September is the club's AGM and Social Function. The AGM will run from 7 - 8pm followed by snacks, drinks at bar prices and the usual social activities. The cost is $10.00pp. The club has thrown in some money to reduce the price, making it affordable for all. Office bearers will be nominated and selected for the 2006/7 year. The event will be upstairs at "The Lounge" in Dean Street opposite the Cinema complex. If any members wish to join the MTB committee and help out please feel free to come along to the AGM and nominate yourself.

Nail Can Hill Social Rides

Group social rides are starting back up on a regular basis now. They are at a fairly easy pace so riders of all ages and abilities are welcome. They are held on the 1st Saturday afternoon of each month at 2:00pm and on the 3rd Sunday morning of each month at 9:00am. The meeting point is at the top of Gap road Albury (up past the TAFE). Check the events page for updated info as there may be an out of town race on at the same time meaning there may not be anyone up on Nail Can.

Beechworth Social Ride

This Sunday (Aug 13) we are having a social ride with the Beechworth Chain Gang before their MTB evening. Meet at the Beechworth MTB Park at 2:00pm for a fun filled afternoon exploring the MTB Park and also ride the awesome Woolshed track! Then kick back and have dinner watching MTB videos on the big screen at Tanswells Commercial Hotel Beechworth. All are welcome to come along and you can bring your family along for dinner. If you need a lift post a message on the forum, car pool with a few others, or else see you at 2pm at the Beechworth MTB Park. For more info call Brad on 0402 245 581.

MTB Orienteering Results

Here's the results from the AWOC MTBO on 16/7/06

MTB Orienteering 16/7/06

AWOC is putting on an MTBO event on Nailcan. See details.

New website

Our old website is here. We'll be progressively moving it here.