Xmas pizza!
By Janine Appleton
The Executive Committee invite you to the MMBCC Christmas Party out at Jamieson road race next Thursday evening at the Jamieson Brewery. Pizza provided by the club for everyone that attends.
All you have to do is RSVP to Janine Appleton 0428 150 800, or email Janine with your name/s and Pizza preference by Tuesday 3 December. We would like to have all the pizza orders in the day before so when we arrive at the venue from 8pm, everything is ready to serve. Drinks at your own expense.
So if you haven't raced in a while, this is a fantastic opportunity to have a go next week and join us for what I think is the best circuit on our calendar. You can jump in the river for a quick dip afterwards… if you are brave enough.
Dirt Critters News
By Tim Ross
Advance notice that on Tuesday Dirt Critters will ride alongside the Delatite River from Carter's Road to Mirimbah and back. This is a wonderful, flattish ride thru the bush on a great piece of single-track.
ALL Dirt Critters will ride at the same time (though we'll split up into groups based on speed/ experience).
We'll meet at the Carter's Road picnic area at 4:15 pm and I expect we'll be finished by around 5:45pm (the Carter's Road picnic area is easy to find on Google Maps; just off the Buller Road past Sawmill Settlement; allow 25 minutes drive from Mansfield). Parents are most welcome to bring their bikes and join the ride, or may prefer to walk out and back along the trail.
We had a relaxed ride at Rifle Butts Reserve last Tuesday, with both groups enjoying a ride around the upper trails and successfully negotiating some rougher tracks.
Entries are now open for the next event in the Alpine Cycling Club Junior MTB Race Series, in Yackandandah only a week away. For those of you not on their email list here is the info;
Round 3 of the series is coming up shortly on Saturday the 7th of December.
This year, The Yack team has prepared a fresh new course for you closer to the town in the local Sports park so don't miss this one.
Here is the rego link and all the course details will follow in the coming days.
Contact dirtcrits@gmail.com or call Luke on 0455 604 785 for more information on Dirt Critters.
See you on Tuesday!
Rifle Butts Time Trial
By Damian Grundy
Dirt Crits Tuesday 26 November and who could believe it's already the second to last XC race of 2024.
For something completely new, at the suggestion of Tim Ross, the evening consisted of two timed runs along the Riflebutts Road single track. This is a really cool bit of trail; nothing too difficult, fast and flowy.
The course length was 3.3km. The objective for the competitors was to produce two runs with the most consistent times.
Ben Ross came out victorious with two efforts producing identical times of 9 min 23 sec - perfect!
Second place on the night was awarded to the rider with the lowest combined two laps and in a break-out performance this was produced by young Tom Logan-Williams with a combined time of 18 min 07sec. Bruce Halket had the second fastest combined time of 18 min 20 sec.
3rd place overall was Damian Grundy with 2 sec difference with laps of 9 min 24 sec and 9 min 22 sec.
In 4th overall and second in the Ross vs Ross Cup was Tim Ross with a 3 sec variation.
In 5th and 1st Female was Nicole Hoebergen with a 7 sec difference between runs.
Thanks to everyone and especially Cam Dobson and Darren Bakker for managing the timing.
Here are the detailed results.
See you next week for another XC night!
Rob Curtis Memorial Handicap
By Simon Hall
After a few wet days that provided more rain than any cropping farmer would like in the middle of harvest, race day arrived fine and dry but windy. A small field of dedicated riders braved the weather and signed on to race.
Di Condie and Micala Jacobs were first off the line, Di proving to be too strong for Micala and quickly riding away from her. A brave move to be leading the race by yourself that early on.
Dave Jagger and Dave Bock were next in an awkward position - 7 minutes to the pair in front and an equal distance to the bunch behind. This is a decent gap considering the wind.
They were followed by Jason Parker, Adrian Dowd, Oliver Hall and Simon Hall. Oliver struggled to keep up in this bunch but they worked well together and looked after Oliver for as long as they could.
With some late scratchings, the handicappers job was difficult for the back markers. Dave Jagger and Dave Bock where the next bunch. Ryder Chadd was pulled from this bunch to keep Andy Garrett company at the back of the race. The plan here was that Ryder would help Andy to get up the hill to the turn around, but the flats beforehand proved too hard for Ryder and he struggled to keep up.
With a great ride, Darren Bakker and Damian Grundy breezed past the bunch in front on the climb. Only Adrian and Simon managed to grab a wheel and keep going with them. The rest of the climb and the return to Mansfied proving to be fast with this new bunch managing to chase down all riders in front. After a sterling ride by herself, Di was unfortunately caught on the approach to the finish. A close bunch finish saw Simon just in front of Damian and Darren. Everyone else was close behind. Di after a long ride by herself was just able to stay in front of Andy at the finish.
Here are the results and thanks again to Tony Copland for his images, making us all look good.
Bike racing is a lot of fun and my appreciation goes to the volunteers who help out each week to make it all possible.
