Calling All Mountain Bikers

[jasevr4]

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.

The development of South Australias first dedicated Mountain Bike Park is occurring within the site of an old quarry close to Eagle on the Hill and will provide a publicly accessible area in close proximity to Adelaide where people of all ages, fitness and skill levels can experience recreational and competition mountain bike riding on purpose built trails.

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...

Well, Eagle feedback will close in 2 days now. (4pm Friday). For those slackers who haven't filled it out yet, attached is a form that has been filled out for you. Download it, fill out your name make any changes that you want and email it to:

[email protected]

For the government website, http://www.recsport.sa.gov.au/about-us/news.html

So there's no excuse, download it. Email it to all you slack mates. This is our last chance to help shape the park, if you don't chuck you're 2 cents in you can't whinge when it isn't what you want!

Please email it to as many people as you can. Lets get the numbers in before 4pm Friday.

Thanks

Travis

(PS. Thanks to another rider for doing up the form for me).

Thanks for your time.

Click here for the Eagle feedback template form.

[Chris32]

so what do you have to do? Fill out the form and send it off?

I used to race downhill a few years ago, so I'd like to support this

[jasevr4]

Yep, just fill out the form and email it to [email protected]