Mt Stromlo MTB Park Update  
(5 comments)  Thursday, 7-December-2006  7:56 PM - by Squidly Didly 
There has been some confusion of the opening date for the new Mountain Bike tracks at Mt Stromlo, Canberra.
The MTB park portion of Stromlo Forest which includes the DH, MtnX & XC tracks will be open from the National Championships in January.
Only the DH & MtnX are open this weekend for the Brindabella Challenge to which afterwards all the tracks will be closed with barricades, fencing and gates until the opening dates.

The reason for this is simple. The tracks need to compact naturally and for insurance reasons the area is still a construction site. MV Australia, who are the designers and consultants of this facility have a delivery date for these professional courses of January 25th 2007. Once open, anybody can ride these tracks when needed.

The DH that will be ridden this weekend is without the start mound, road crossing bridge and finishing straight. The course will be adjusted to suit these insertions. There are sections of the downhill which are not the final course, and are re-routed temporary tracks. Riders will be riding 90% of the final product.

The MtnX that will be ridden this weekend will be the shaped track without top soil dressing, finishing straight, start gates and spectator mounds.

All these items have been scheduled to be installed after the New Year.

The race this weekend gives riders a sneak preview of what to expect once the park is opened.

Thanks to Glen Jacobs for the heads up.

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