Volunteers Wanted

Volunteering is an integral component mountain biking and your support is essential in delivering not only successful but memorable events and better trails. 

Keen to help out?
We desperately need volunteers. If you can lend a hand and support your local mountain biking community, please contact:, Kylie Van Haren on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Peter Hallinan on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your details and we will include you in our Register of Volunteers.

We need volunteers to help out with a variety of duties including:

Trail Work

In 2003 the Club initiated Trail Care in the Nerang State Forest. Members who worked signed on as Trail Care Volunteers for the Queensland National Parks and Wild Life Service. Trail Care is planned in advance in consultation with the Chief Ranger and work is carried out in line with IMBA standards with focus on drainage and erosion control and in accordance with the agreed plan. Do you remember the old Casuarina track that acted as a fast running drain for the lower forest? At least it took most of the blue metal away!

Without Trail Care there was the likelihood of complete closure of the badly eroded Three Hills track. Trail Care redesigned the top and bottom hills of the Tree Hills track and they came through the rains with minor problems, some of which have already been fixed. Next winter the middle hill will be redesigned. Dozens of members have worked on Trail Care days over the years. Altogether 28 such days have been held with very positive results and hundreds of man hours invested in sustainable track work. The National Parks Service is tightly funded and Mountain Bike tracks could not exist without extensive volunteer work. On a day to day continuing basis members remove fallen trees from tracks and report larger trees on Fire Trails and tracks to the National Parks Service Chief Ranger for chain saw removal. So get off your bike and help remove a tree.

Since recent rains over 60 rubble drains have been built to make the Casuarina track an all weather track and extensive work has been done on the Three Hills track to achieve this same result. Beforehand, members gathered rocks and stored them at two central locations. The National Parks Service then moved them to preselected sites with a mechanical wheelbarrow, sure beats doing it by hand.

The club would like to thank all of the members who have volunteered and the Club would also like to thank non-member volunteers that have assisted in these projects. If you haven’t volunteered think about it next time.

Totally Wild 

A neat video from the TV programme Totally Wild features Rhys Willemse, Tamryn Murrell and James Maltman, have a look

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTfEp7HjWVo