News | Social rides

n The September Social Ride will be held on Sunday 17th with a trip down to Melbourne to sample the singletrack goodness available at Plenty Gorge. The Plenty Gorge MTB Club conduct regular social rides on the 3rd Sunday of the month, offering a range of lengths and difficulties to suit all levels of riders. […]

The ride will depart Castlemaine Theatre Royal at 9am. We shall ride out along the Castlemaine to Maldon Rail Trail and then take on about 15kms of easy riding single trail. Not hilly or rocky; best described as twisty and fun. You will need a mountain bike and to be reasonably fit as the riding

Sunday 20 August – a tour of some of the long-standing Walmer trails that are still a perennial favourite with mountain bikers from around the region. The ride will ramble through some of the Cloverleaf trails, and more. Meet at Das Kaffeehaus at 9am for a coffee, we’ll be leaving at 9:30 from out front

The July Social Ride will be held on Sunday, 16 July, 2017, and is designed as another of our non technical rolling rides. The ride will centre on the Castlemaine-Maldon Bike Trail with a little bit of singletrack on the side. The ride will depart from the Castlemaine Theatre Royal at 9am sharp. For those

n The June social ride will be held on Sunday 18 June and will be hosted by the Ballarat MTB Club. The ride will take in some of the the new Black Hill XC trails that are being developed in a $320K project incorporating cross country, downhill, skills area and pump tracks. There will be

The Castlemaine Cloverleaf is making its way onto the bucket lists of lots of mountain bikers because of its variety, technical challenges and all round enjoyment all in a compact area within easy reach of the centre of Castlemaine. Once again we will be using the Cloverleaf as the venue for Round Two of the

The May social ride (Sunday 21 May) will take in some of the developing trail network in the Muckleford Forest, in the triangle between Muckleford, Newstead and Maldon. A loose collection of singletrack has existed in this part of the forest for many years, but has been little utilised. The majority of the trails are

This ride (Sunday 14 May) is designed to provide scope for new mountain bike riders to develop their confidence, skills and fitness without requiring high level technical abilities. nn The first part will take in 20kms (thus giving people who had enough after 20k to return to Castlemaine); the rest will do another 10kms, so

Eight Rocky Riders ventured down the Pyrenees Highway to Ararat on Sunday 25 September to meet up with a similar sized group of Ararat Dirt Riders for an introduction to the developing network of singletrack on One Tree Hill. A small group from the Ararat club have been steadily constructing this network over the past