From 9am at Kinross Forest car park.

To help look after our local trails and forest the club is having a clean up day to remove some of the rubbish that has been dumped at Kinross Forest.  It’s been a while since our last clean up day so there has been a fair bit accumulated out there.

What to bring:

1. Gloves
2. Utes/trailers
3. Tough bags
4. Sturdy shoes and clothing
5. Bring out your bike in case you’re keen for a ride afterwards.

There may do a little touch up on the trails too but we’ll be mostly cleaning up.

On a related note there has been activity to impose fines on the anyone caught dumping at the forest.  If you see someone dumping rubbish then report it to the club and we can forward it on to the correct people to chase it up.  Hopefully the message will get through that dumping rubbish in our forest (or anywhere) is not on.

We have teamed with the Central Tablelands MTB club (Lithgow) to put on an inter club ride, its not a race but a ride with a prize.

It’s a simple format with more then a little chance of rewarding those who enjoy a bit of bush bashing.

Poker?

• Every rider starts with 2 playing cards, drawn randomly from a deck, then at the completion of each lap you can pick another card.
• There’s a 90min window to ride and you can do as many or as few laps as you want (or is possible) to get ‘the best poker hand’.
• Darryl Grant Cycles is once again giving away the goodies and I’m fairly sure it will be a good little prize purse.
• Of course we will also give away a prize to the rider who completes the most laps in the shortest time (90mins+) but this is about participation not speed or endurance.

Racing on 'TTT'

Other details:
A lap will consist of the Ginja Ninja 250 course therefore taking 30mins +/- about 10mins a lap.
Sign on on the day, rego opens at 9:30, race starts at 10am. $10 for Seniors, $5 for Juniors. (+ day licence for non-members, become a member now)
BBQ sausage sizzle afterwards.

Encourage your friends and foes to come along, should be a good day out.

In return Lithgow will host a simialr race in Feb (date to be confirmed) around the fun tracks at Rydal.

Scott on the 'North Shore' track.

We are going to have a crack at fixing up some parts of the ‘North Shore’ track this Sunday (8/1/2012).  Sorry for the late notice but any help would be appreciated.

The north shore is green on this map heading east up from the car park.  Just come along the trail till you find us.

Similar to our previous trail maintenance days we will be there from 8-1pm then have a BBQ.  Come for the whole time or just a part of it.

Also there’s a social ride afterwards if there’s any energy left.

For a list of what to bring have a look at the list here for the first working day.

Racing on 'TTT'

***Update***.  Results on results page.

Come and try out the proposed Ginja Ninja 250 race track this Sunday 18th at our monthly club race.

The loop is 7km long and there’ll be an option for completing 1 or 2 laps.

BBQ lunch afterwards (with bonus sauce!).

Start: 10am

Cost: $5 (+$20 for non-MTBA members for a day license or apply for membership online before Sunday)

This Sunday 4th of December 8am-13:30pm.  (If you can’t make the whole time then just come for what you can and find us on the trail.)

BBQ at 13:30 then a social ride if there’s any energy left.

We’ll be working on TTT again.  To find out what to bring and how to get to the TTT track see last months maintenance day post.

Any help would be very much appreciated to make our trails even better and last longer.

Entries are now open for the Ginja Ninja 250.

Go to the Ginja Ninja 250 event page to find more information and enter now.

Tell all your MTB friends about the race and encourage local friends to give it a go too.

***Update***:  Results on results page.  Photos on photos page.

As per the schedule we are running a cross country race this weekend at Kinross Forest.

We’ll be using some track that we have recently improved so come along and give us some feedback on the volunteer’s work.

The loop will be about 4km long and you have an option for 2 or 3 laps.

BBQ lunch afterwards.

Start: 10am

Cost: $5 (+$20 for non-MTBA members for a day license)

Sunday 6th of November 8am-13:30pm.  (If you can’t make the whole time then just come for what you can and find us on the trail.)

BBQ at 13:30 then a social ride if there’s any energy left.

To make sure the Kinross Trails are in schmick condition before the ninjas arrive for 250 minutes of fun we want to spruce them up a bit.  We are keen for anyone to come out and give us a hand.

Our first priority is to resurrect the “TTT” trail close to the car park (marked as a red trail on the map here, close the car park and Owen’s rest).   This was originally designed to be a tough track but we are working on making it easier (and fun for all levels) since it’s close to the car park, was in a poor state and will make a good addition to the ginja ninja 250 loop.

What to bring:

1. Tools – the best are pick/mattock/fire rake/rake.  Shovels may be handy too.  If you don’t have any then there will be some to borrow.
2. Gardening gloves
3. Safety glasses
4. Water + morning tea
5. Old convict railway work gang songs
6. Bike + stuff for a ride afterwards

Directions to start of TTT from car park:

1. Head north on the fire road leaving the car park.
2. After about 50m turn right up the over grown fire road just after the road heads uphill.  This is the trail where Owen’s Rest exits.
3. Follow the over grown fire road up until there is a sharp right turn. There’s a gully on the left heading up into the trees.
4. You’ll see the “TTT” start on the left of the gully a short way in.

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Ginja Ninja 250 February 2012

***Update***:  More details on the Ginja Ninja and Night Dash Events page.

CWORBC are announcing a great new mountain bike XC event for early 2012 (Feb 5th 2012).

The Ginja Ninja 250 will be two hundred and fifty minutes of racing on the great tracks of Kinross Forest only 6km from the centre of the beautiful metropolis of Orange NSW.

Contending ninjas will compete in the classic MTB enduro format.  This means striving to complete as many laps as possible in 4 hours and 10 mins around a course designed to be fun for everyone from beginner ninjlets to wise and experienced ninjas.

The focus is on fun and there will be a healthy prize pool showered on everyone, not only on the place getters.

What: Ginja Ninja 250

When: 5/2/2012

How long: 250 mins (4 hours 10 mins)

Time:  10am

Event Type: Multi Lap for 250 mins.

Categories: Solos and pairs.  Male and female, mixed pairs.

Entry Fees: $30 for Solos and $25 ea rider in a pairs (+$20 MTBA day license for non-MTBA members)

Local Ninja

There will be more details to follow but organisation is well under way with some great sponsors helping us out.

We also have the ambition that every entrant will get a free photo of themselves at the event!  There’ll be some merchandise available too, including our brand spanking new club kit (jersey and nicks) and event T-shirt.

For more information post your questions on the forum (link below) or use our contact page to email the organisers.

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