Eagle Mountain Bike Park had been planned and is 95% finished. It is a purpose "built" park for mountain biking in SA. As they have "cracked down" on mountain biking as of late (and closed a lot of national parks to mountain bikers), a dedicated park is long overdue.
For more info on the park, click here.
The draft management plan is out; basically this is the oportunity for it to either go ahead, or go under. As with the car scene, there are a lot of people that want to "take us down". They just don't understand that a 1m wide trail is a 1m wide piece of cleared land, whether it be used by walkers, mountain bikers, horses, etc, and if the old Eagle Quarry wasn't converted to this MTB park, it would still just be a quarry - NOT revegetated land with some dirt trails through it. As a result, we need all of the support that we can get.
Long story short, if you are a mountain biker, you know of mountain bikers, you ever think you will be a mountain biker, or you just want to "help the cause" (hey, I always vote yes for "roadie" cycling events, skate parks, etc ), please give us a hand...
Thanks for your time.
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