Club welcomes new sponsor

Jess Douglas and MTBSkills have come onboard to sponsor the dirt crit series. MTBSkills offer courses that are designed to "skill up" the participants. It's one of the cheapest ways to make improvement to your riding/racing times, best of all you can do it with your current bike, current fitness level. No upgrades needed.

Visit Jess, Norm & Crew at www.mtbskills.com.au to see what's coming up.

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Club Making a Public Environmental Point

As part of the Warrnambool Mountain Bike Club's recent Thunder Point Coastal Reserve Woody Weed Removal Grant, the club today announced they will host community weed pulls on Sunday March 18 and Saturday April 21 from 10am or 4pm. Both events will be split into morning and afternoon shifts starting at 10am and 2pm respectively, followed by a BBQ and refreshments.

Many years of neglect at Thunder Point Coastal Reserve has led to an explosion of woody weeds and high on the club's hit list is African Boxthorn, Sweet Pittosporum and a host of other weeds from the site.

Works are not limited to community days, with a wide range of volunteers and partners coming on board to contribute in various ways to cleaning up the reserve, including; Warrnambool Coastcare Landcare Group, St Laurence Community Services, Warrnambool City Council, Corrections Victoria, Glenelg Hopkins Catchment
Management Authority, MAD for the Merri Inc., Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Corporation; Kuuyang Marr Aboriginal Corporation, Coastcare Victoria, Department of Sustainability and Environment, club members, jobseekers and local businesses Tutt Environmental and enics solutions.

Warrnambool Mountain Bike Club President Mr Darren Shiell believes the project is unique with a sporting club leading the way for environmental work.

Mr. Shiell said "This is a great example partnership between community groups and government and we're hoping to build on this relationship and gain permanent official access to the Reserve for building the skills of Warrnambool's Mountain Bike Fraternity"

The club will also host a Clean-up Australia Day event March 4 from 9 - 12 pm to remove all rubbish from the reserve.

For information on the Clean up Australia day event, click here

For a flier on the community weed pull days click here