Wollongong Mountain Bike Club

The Ben Mikic Foundation is working in partnership with the The Outdoor Education Group to bring a unique Mountain Bike Skills Based Training experience to the cycling community of Australia on Sat & Sun 2nd & 3rd October 2010.

The Program offers a unique mountain bike skills training experience. It is designed to cater for participants with little to no mountain bike experience to more advanced riders. Riding on the great trails of Majura Pines in Canberra this is a great chance for juniors aged between 11-20 to polish up the skills, or learn new ones and support a great cause along the way.

For more information check out www.benmikicfoundation.org.au

Central West Off Road Cycle Club & Chocolate Foot are jointly running some cycling events in October that might interest WMBC members.

A Wine Women and Wheels weekend is a new event taking in a skills clinic and a tour of the regions cellar doors. The event will be held on October 30-31st 2010 and coincides with the Orange Wine Weekl.

Check out the Chocolate Foot website at www.chocolatefoot.com.au/wine-women-and-wheels for more details.

On the 12 September and for the second year a Ben Mikic Foundation Womens Team is taking part in the annual charity ride which is linked to the Classic Goulburn to Citi Road Race and Corporate Charity Ride. 

The BMF has an overarching goal of making cycling safer for young bike riders and a number of programs are in place to achieve this goal; to help fund these programs the BMF Womens Team will be riding the Mittagong to Camden leg of this event with the intent of demonstrating safe riding practice and to make the point that all road users need to use our roads with safety as the uppermost consideration.  The team needs all the support it can get in raising funds to ensure the foundation is able to continue with the work it is doing. 

If you could consider making a donation to the team’s ride it would be a great help.  Providing support is really easy; all you need to do is to paste www.benmikicfoundation.org.au into Internet Explorer or your web browser and you will get into the BMF home page; in the lower left corner is a widget headed ‘BMF’s fundraising page for the 2010 Goulburn to Citi Corporate Charity Ride’; click on Sponsor Me and you will be taken to the BMF fundraising page; click on Donate Now nominate an amount you would like to contribute, complete the information required by Everyday Hero and either nominate a team member you would like to support or just donate to the team.

The BMF says that the value in the Everyday Hero fundraising system is that is possible to reach a great many people simply by email and what works is lots of people making modest contributions.

Phil Herd

BMF Foundation

Welcome to the Wollongong Mountain Bike Club Website. Whether you ride for fun, competition, fitness, or just socially we share your passion for the sport. We believe single-track mountain bike riding is appropriate and sustainable in the Illawarra and are working hard to find more legal places to ride.

WMBC hold regular cross country races at our track in Appin and are working towards developing sustainable and legal downhill trails in the Illawarra.

As with all sporting clubs the club needs your help so we can all get out and ride. We encourage all members to come along and help with race timing or come along to our track maintenance days. A little by a lot goes a long way.