The Club owns a Personal Locator Beacon or PLB. If you are organising your own mountain bike trip in the back country, you may borrow it. Conditions; free to borrow, but only for club members and must be booked in advance so we can ensure there still one for club trips. You have to pick
“Mountain Bike NZ and Cycle NZ work together to grow and develop mountain biking as a sport for New Zealander’s, through promoting participation and membership, development pathways, securing and administering national and international level competition”. For you this means you and our club are connected to the greater world of mt biking! Benefits include; helping
With fine weather forecast for the coast, 15 of us left a cold, grey day in Christchurch for a long weekend of mountain biking in Reefton. After a coffee and bite to eat, we headed off on our first ride, Blacks Point. This is a loop ride of approximately 15kms (760 meters of elevation during
We’re delighted to announce that the Canterbury Mountain Bike Club has had its constitution approved. This is an important achievement for the club. Thanks to Matt Newby, Neil Coleman and Bronwyn Ward for contributing to this. Having a constitution (rules that the club abides by) means all members and prospective members know what our club
Hello! A quick update, with what’s going on with your club. We currently have 192 Members! Thank you all for joining. We are often getting people asking, “why should I join the club?” So here’s a few reasons: Why join the Canterbury Mountain Bike Club? Good Karma knowing you’re giving money back to upkeep the
The May 2017 Committee Meeting Minutes are available for download here
Barren? Yes – Boring? No! OK, so we are probably all guilty of riding the popular tracks on the West Coast, so Glen and I thought we’d take a look at a lesser ridden track network – Denniston. So I’m no gung-ho rider, but for me, this was an excellent place to practice riding technical
Riding in the wet can ruin the tracks, so to avoid contributing to any damage, make sure to check the track reports that identifies what trails are open for riding. We now have links to the Christchurch and Craigieburn Trails on our website.
The Canterbury Mountain Bike Club has donated $500 to port hills tracks and $300 to Westpac helicopter. Thank you all for paying your membership payments so we can support these important causes. Want your say in club decisions? Then please join us at a committee meeting.
The March 2017 Committee Meeting Minutes are available for download here