Cairns Mountain Bike Club

Thursday May 13 2004 - Thanks to Mackay for sending us all the info on their upcoming (final) round of the NQ Sunshine Series! You can download it here in PDF format. Use Right-click on the link, follow the prompts to download the file to your computer, or click on it to read it on screen.

Sunday May 9 2004 - El Arish DH results are posted on the results page, following a chaotic day of rain, mud and swamp-like conditions. Congratulations to those who turned up and raced on the day, especially for the young guys having their first race - you couldn't possibly have picked worse conditions (unless we can arrange to truck in some snow...). Pics at GordonG.com. Thanks for having us, Miles, hope your land gets better soon :)

Thursday May 6 2004 - More info on El Arish: MTX is $10 nomination, DH is $20 nomination. Practice for DH is most of the weekend, but we'll probably have to start racing some time around noon on Sunday. Don't forget, it's still a fun weekend. Miles will be supplying food at reasonable prices Saturday evening and Sunday lunchtime. I don't know what you'll get and I don't know who's cooking it, but please remember that part of the funds from the weekend go to support Miles in his overseas racing later this year, so be there!

You should now be able to find us at www.cairnsmtb.com instead of any of the old bookmarks you have been using. If it doesn't work for you now, it will within probably 24 hours from now. The new domain location should have propagated throughout Australia by now, the rest of the planet may lag behind a little. We also have a new email address, info at cairnsmtb dot com (I'd like to keep it off the spam list so that's why I'm not listing it correctly here or on the Contact page.)

Wednesday May 5 2004 - I hate that... Not being able to get information from a race meeting. Anyway, from what I've been able to piece together (which is probably mostly wrong) our guys went to Townsville and competed over last weekend, with El Presidente Mal Lindsay taking out the Veteran DH class (he was the only starter, but I promised not to tell anyone :), Berend Boer won U17 DH with Aaron Edwards second, Andrew Sues was second in U19 DH with Michael Christensen third, Darren Oleszkiewicz was second in Expert DH behind "Goose" from Townsville, and John Wiren, Sean Garraway and (I'm told 'D. Johnson' but I can't find anyone in our members list by that name so it might have been Damien Jones but don't quote me) finished 1 - 2 - 3 in Hardtail DH. And I think Shawn also got a placing in XC. If anyone can give me more information it would be really appreciated!

Wednesday April 28 2004 - Information on the Townsville event this weekend (this is a little fragmented, CMTBC accepts no responsibility for any incorrect information). Race day is Sunday May 2nd with XC to begin at 8.30am. Assume that this is not nomination time, which should be earlier, and will cost $15. Downhill gets underway at 2.00pm, so DH'ers should be there well in advance of this time so that they can (a) nominate and (b) get some practice runs in. Again, $15 nomination. The track to be used is the Douglas tracks, situated behind JCU. Look for signs alongside the roads. The Rockwheelers have a website which is under construction, but directions to the track are available - go here and then click on Ride Info down the bottom of the menu, then click on Douglas. Have fun.

Thursday April 22 2004 - In their attempt to populate the planet and/or breed a future generation of downhillers, Sarah and Russell Millard are proud to announce the arrival of their latest son, Samuel, born this morning at Cairns Base Hospital. Mother and son doing well, father wants to go riding since he's off work...

Monday April 18 2004 - This is what we like to see... "Much of the festival’s Sunday activity was focused on the Downhill Domination Gravity Omnium, an allaround competition for gravity mountain biking’s top athletes with two events on the day’s schedule. Australian Mick Hannah (Haro/adidas) ran away with the men’s title, following his win in Saturday’s Downhill Domination Dual Slalom with a victory in Sunday morning’s MTB Downhill and a second place in Sunday afternoon’s Mountain Cross." From the Sea Otter Classic press release.

Monday April 18 2004 - Poster for El Arish now available with all the final times and information; click on the thumbnail on the right to get a 150K version. Definitely one of Russell's better posters... Also here's another quote from the Sea Otter Classic: The Downhill Domination Dual Slalom saw a wave of international riders step up to the podium at North America’s greatest cycling festival. Australia swept the men’s top 3, with Mick Hannah (Haro/Adidas) taking his first win of the season in the Downhill Domination Dual Slalom, beating compatriots Wade Bootes (Trek-Volkswagen) and Nathan Rennie (Santa Cruz Syndicate/Troy Lee). In the women’s race, France’s Sabrina Jonnier (Intense Cycles) rode flawlessly to first place, with another Australian, Jamis Cycles’ Katrina Miller placing second. The lone American to achieve a top 3 result was Tara Llanes (Giant-Pearl Izumi). GO MICK! (A little editorial bias creeping in there, sorry bout dat! - GG)

Saturday April 17 2004 - Minor Calendar updates, plus here's a partial quote from the Sea Otter press release: 'Friday afternoon also featured mountain cross qualifying heats, the kick-off of Sea Otter’s Downhill Domination Gravity Omnium. A field of 16 women was selected from 21 who raced, and 60 men made the cut from the group of 71. The top five women were: Tara Llanes (Giant/Pearl Izumi), Katrina Miller (Jamis Cycles), Sabrina Jonnier (Intense Cycles), Jamie Lilly, and Leigh Donovan (GT/Hyundai). The top five men were: Michael Robinson, Eric Carter (Mongoose/Hyundai), a Funn-Foes rider registered as “Mr. Kamakazi”, Mick Hannah (Haro/adidas) and Wade Books (Trek-Volkswagen).'

Tuesday April 13 2004 - More details on the El Arish fun weekend: Saturday 24th April will be Downhill practice all day, then a MountainCross event starting around 4.00pm. On Sunday it's Cross country in the morning, but registration has been held back until 8.00am to give people a bit more time to make the trip down (or up if you're coming from Townsville!) with the race expected to start at 9.00am but don't quote us on that. Downhill will commence at 12.00noon, presumably with registration and some more practice, then the event itself. And of course, after the race it will be party time... More (accurate) information when Mr. Millard completes the poster and gets it to us.

Thursday April 8 2004 - Once again we have updated our website. It isn't designed to be a "bells and whistles" site, it's designed to be functional. Most importantly for our members, it's designed to be easily updated to bring you the news as quickly as possible.