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Worth noting that our plan was based around retaining and upgrading the existing black and double black trails (in most cases). It’s our understanding that in most instances this isn’t the case with the current plan. The plan we developed had the support of indigenous groups, but this support...

Hey guys, While it is a bummer, the cancellation has zero impact on the Creswick Trails Project. Our teams are busy out in the hills creating trails, with everything on schedule for the planned opening in later 2024.

Can confirm that we are working on a bike park project in Greater Sydney. Unfortunately we can’t share more details for now. We will be able to share more once we have everything in place to launch. We’re not in the business of hyping things up before they’re ready.

Each to their own. We believe there is a place for commercial bike parks- having worked in this industry for years I can safely say that you will never develop the style, intensity, volume and difficulty of trails in a public setting that we can do privately. To do so we have to charge people...

We must have missed the bit where we confirmed that we were involved in this project. We don’t sub contract our trail building, so can only assume you’ve got us confused with someone else.

We don’t do grifting (or unfounded hype for that matter). If we end up doing a commercial bike park in NSW we won’t be messing about. The public would hear about it when we know we can deliver a product consistent with the reputation we have earned from Maydena.

You do realise we had absolutely nothing to do with Glenworth Valley Bike Park, right? The project was driven by Synergy Trails. We can’t speak for the Synergy crew, this was their project.

So, entirely hypothetically if we actually were building a major gravity-based bike park with tech, flow, and jump trails near Sydney we shouldn’t expect a visit from you guys then? You guys do know we built Maydena Bike Park, right? MBP has arguably the most diverse trail network in...

Correct. The North Owen trails utilise steep, narrow ridge lines, and literally use up all the functional real estate available.

The remaining two descending trails will be open on Mt Owen by the time you get there. We’d suggest 2 days to cover Mt Owen properly once it’s all open.

For clarity, none of our staff had any real unofficial practice. The course was only completed a few days before the event- you could count the number of total passes the trail had on two hands. No staff had more than a few full laps each...

No bone heads will win this race- the course includes a massive range of trail styles, with the aim to crown true national champions.

Maydena Bike Park is built in a world heritage area- it can be done.

$2.5m in federal funding is now confirmed for the West Coast- this is for the construction of Mt Owen trails (Queenstown), which we designed as a 35km trail network with a big mountain style. The design documents are publicly available via West Coast Council. This funding also covers design of...

After much hesitation, in the interests of the project I have decided to buy in. Personally I find this forum a very toxic place at times and don’t often venture here. My comments are solely in the interest of recognising the importance and significance of this planning project. After many...

Thanks guys. We’ll be releasing more project information soon, and plan to start public consultation late August. This is a project very much for the community, so there will be lots of scope to get involved. Happy to answer any questions in the mean time though. Simon @ Dirt Art

Maydena is absolutely a permanent venue- the park is no different to a ski resort as a model (we also use a similar lease agreement for park’s land to council’s such as at Blue Derby- except we pay for our lease where most councils don’t). Council’s make strategic decisions as voted on by a...

Hey guys, The park won't have a climb to the top, and climbing will not be allowed on our shuttle road (a condition of our lease). We will be offering a climb to our lower zone trails (access to 6+ descents at around 200m vertical from our base building). There is plenty of places to...

We have worked with companies around the world on proposals such as the Mount Wellington Cable Car; we definitely don't accept every offer we get to work on such projects, we are selective and chose to partner with projects that we feel offer a sensitive balance between tourism and conservation...

The world would be a pretty miserable place if we only ever supported things that furthered our personal interests. I have a personal view that Tasmania should be moving towards a sustainable, sensible eco and adventure tourism based economy, rather than our past reliance on extraction...