Rockhampton Mountain Bike Club
– Promoting cross country and enduro mountain biking in the Rockhampton region, Central Queensland, Australia
Event: Rocky MTB 2 Hour Day/Night Team Challenge 2020 is nearly done, but here is a last chance for some team racing at Seeonee Park and a chance to support a great cause. Capricorn Helicopter Rescue provide a vital service to CQ and maybe, just maybe, you as a mountain biker may require their services …
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Rocky MTB 3 Hour Day/Night Team & Solo XC This event has been rescheduled to 17 March due to bad weather. Click here to see the new event details. Rockhampton Mountain Bike Club is holding its annual pre-season 3 hour XC day/night race on Saturday 24 February 2018. This is a social cross-country event catering …
COMMUNITY SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT The Lighthouse hub at First Turkey Mountain Bike Reserve is a popular pit-stop for riders. But did you know that it also bears a curse? Back in 1872, an old miner named Harry built a hut on the very slab where we park our bikes today. An avid cyclist and founding father of …
Here’s some motivation ahead of tomorrow’s race – straight from the turkey’s mouth. 🙂 Andrew ThompsonAndrew is web guru and social ride coordinator for Rocky MTB and Cycle CQ. He rides XC, enduro, road, track, fat bikes, and gravel. His life ambition is to declare First Turkey a separate country and be crowned emperor. www.ajthompson.com.au
The average Rockhampton mountain biker has probably never heard of OpenStreetMap (OSM) but in fact you use this software and the maps that it generates every time you take a GPS device on a ride. OSM is the mapping software embedded in the many riding apps we use every day such as Strava, Trailforks, and Runkeeper. When …