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Details of Adelaide Mountain Bike Club races. Refer to Gravity Enduro SA (GESA) category for GESA events.

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Round 4 of the Summer Series

Well, Summer is finally over, but we’re less than conventional – so what’s one more round before we get started on the serious stuff!

The final Summer Series round is on this weekend – Sunday 29 March. Racing for everyone to be had at Eagle MTB Park. Grades catering for all fitness levels from 2 through to 6+ laps!

Summer rounds are aimed to deliver short and fast racing with no prizes – just the glory of MTBing!

Registrations close at 10am Saturday 28 March – strictly no late entries. If you have any issues entering, send an email to timing@ambc.asn.au BEFORE cut off.

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2015 Winter(ish) Race schedule

AMBC have allocated the winter Hammer Nutrition Enduros, Giant XCOs and AMBC State Champs some tidy race dates. Keep an eye on the website and our Facebook page for any changes. So get ready to lock these events into your calendar:

Hammer Nutrition 4hr Enduros:

  1. 19 Apr 2015 – Fox Creek
  2. 31 May 2015 – Prospect Hill
  3. 21 Jun 2015 – Craigburn Farm

Giant Adelaide XCOs:

  1. 02 Aug 2015 – Eagle MTB Park
  2. 13 Sep 2015 – Mt. Torrens Township
  3. 11 Oct 2015 – Craigburn Farm

AMBC State Chamionships:

  • 08 Nov 2015 – Fox Creek

All locations could change depending on a number of factors (Fire Danger rating, rained out, etc.). Make sure you keep an eye on the website and/or Facebook page for any information regarding venue changes.

Registration for all AMBC races will open at 4:00pm on the day of the previous race.

The club calendar has been updated, with links to locations and registration.

The Elite Winter Series will be on again this year. Prizes down to 10th place and awarded at the State Champs race as well (that’s the plan anyway). For last year results, check out the results page – remember their were only 4 qualifying females last year!

There will be a price increase to $30 for all AMBC races this year. The committee has made this decision based on a few factors, but primarily due to the club moving towards a streamlined registration style for the registration coordinator. There will be more on this in the near future.

OTHER EVENTS OUTSIDE OF AMBC? WELL, I’M GLAD YOU ASKED. ADELAIDE SPORTS SOME VERY ACTIVE CLUBS – INSIDELINE, GRAVITY ENDURO SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND PORT ADELAIDE CYCLING CLUB, WHO ALL COMPLIMENT THE DIRT SCENE BY ADDING THEIR OWN TOUCH OF STYLE TO OFF-ROAD RACING. CHECK OUT THE DATES BELOW TO SEE IF ANY OF THE STYLES SUIT YOUR NEEDS. ONE HELL OF A YEAR OF RACING COMING UP!!!

GESA – Gravity Enduro (GE)

The GESA gentlemen have also been prepping themselves for the coming season. Some tentative dates have been established.

Gravity Enduro SA (website yet to be updated):

  1. 28 Jun – Cobbler Creek
  2. 26 Jul – Eagle MTB Park
  3. 30 Aug – Fox Creek
  4. 27 Sep – Mystery Round!

Any GESA related inquiries should be directed to the GESA website or GESA Facebook page – Facebook recommended. The events are managed by a separate sub-committee.

Port Adelaide Cycling Club – Cyclocross (CX)

PACC also have some tentative dates going around for their winter CX series:

  1. 24 May
  2. 05 Jul
  3. 19 Jul
  4. 16 Aug
  5. 27 Sep (State Champs)

PACC will also be hosting round 7 & 8 of the national CX round to be held on the 29/30 Aug 2015.

CX races are all held in the locality of the Adelaide park-lands and you’ll need to check the PACC CX website or their Facebook page for details as they are released.

Inside Line – Downhill (DHI)

If Downhill is your thing as well, check out InsideLines website for their 2015 race schedule – once again, any inquiries regarding downhill should be directed to InsideLine.

  1. 11-12 Apr
  2. 16-17 May
  3. 13-14 Jun
  4. 18-19 Jul
  5. 15-16 Aug
  6. 19-20 Sep
  7. 17-18 Oct (State Champs)
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Results for Summer Series Ronud 3

Preliminary results are up!

Huge apologies to Will Golding who received a dud transponder and I failed to notice it. Unfortunately, no lap times for him. He took it like a gentleman and seemed pretty happy to simply be out on the bike!

If you notice any other discrepancies, shoot an email through to timing@ambc.asn.au and we’ll sort it out. Dispute window is until Wednesday 6pm.

Next race is on 29th March 2015. Entries are open, click on the link at the bottom of the post to go to registration. This race is at Eagle MTB Park. Should be doable on a CX bike* (shouldering and running/walking your bike is part of having a CX bike………….#init?)

*Eagle MTB Park is much more fun on a proper MTB. CX bike not actually recommended unless you love a real challenge or want to stick it to your mates!

Big thanks to Stu Clement for coming out and checking out the timing system. Great student and very attentive – A+ – would hire again! Phase 1 of “Let’s organise a timing team” has commenced!

Plenty of photos going around, check out the photos page for links!

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Final chance for Summer series Round 3

REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 10:00AM (THAT’S RIGHT, IN LESS THAN 40 MINUTES)
*click on the above sentence to go to registration*

If you have any dramas registering – shoot an email through to info@ambc.asn.au or timing@ambc.asn.au (Scott K is organising registrations for this round).

Set up from 07:30am (if you’re REALLY keen)

Sign-on opens at 09:00am

Race start is at 10:00am

Location is Park 23 and the race HQ will be around – or on – Catholic Cemetery Rd.

Once again, we are allocating all race plates and transponders (this will become a thing this year – but more info on that later, THERE’S RACING TO BE HAD!)

If you’d like to volunteer, email racevolunteers@ambc.asn.au – we’ll need a couple of track marshals to keep the seagulls away – or maybe just direct some pedestrians, you never know you’re luck these days.

See you out there!

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Round 3 of the Summer Series

This weekend is fast approaching and with it our 3rd round of the summer series.

This round takes us to Park 23 just off Sir Donald Bradman Drive. The course will be CX friendly – I hope, as I’ll be mapping it out on my CX bike!

Looking for volunteers to help with:

  • course set-up around 8am on Sun morning
  • course pack-up at around “after the race o’clock”
  • sign on desk help – 1 or 2 people
  • 2 people to help Marshall the course (potentially)

Remember that all volunteers who commit prior to race day get a free, transferable race entry!

Once again we will be rolling with the “issue everything on the day” system for transponders and race plates. If you have a race plate, please bring it along so we can coerce you to give it back to us. We have cookies*

If you have any problems registering, please email timing@ambc.asn.au

Remember we no longer do late entries (after 10am Sat) or on the day registration. We do however, have a very lenient refund policy! So get on over and register!

*we don’t actually have cookies. Well, I might, but they’re mine. So tasty! Probably be gone by Sunday.

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