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TAMMTB - Tamworth Mountain Bike Park Management Subcommittee

2018-2019 Plan

Vision: Tamworth Mountain Bike Park is a multi-faceted community space; seamlessly combining a sporting facility with a recreational nature reserve set into a landscape with a deep cultural heritage.

Our role is to lead the responsible development and maintenance of the park ensuring a minimum impact MTB trail network that flows across the landscape utilising natural and where needed manufactured features to add interest and challenge within IMBA grading and development standards. By blending with the contours and nature-scape of the park, the trails will also instinctively enhance the user’s appreciation of the rugged beauty of the parks landscape. Blending with the MTB Trail Network, the Yuundu Warrawi Cultural trail will continue to provide an active experience in cultural recognition and teaching as an interactive walk that traverses the park.

Identified Park Development Needs and Initiatives

Need To cater for a broader level of rider within club events on existing trail network
Initiative Multiple overtaking sections will be built into Fenceline, Creekline, and Hillside to enable beginner and experienced riders to safely race concurrently
Rationale
  1. To avoid building significant new trails that would overcrowd and significantly detract from the existing natural landscape
  2. To build on the already inclusive culture in our sport where by the young and inexperienced riders can learn from riding with the more experienced riders– but in safe and well managed facility
Note: the kids MTB trail will be extended by approximately 100m to near “Bug’s Jungle” for beginners coming to races
Need To Cater for the increasing number of riders wanting more challenging trail features
Initiative To develop more TTF’s on Fenceline, Creekline, Hillside and lower Secret Valley
Rationale
  1. The higher tracks already offer good challenge
  2. The lower tracks are more accessible and visible by the public, general users and parents – having features built in as “A line” options adds to the supervised and promotional “playground effect”
Need General Working Bee schedule to share the load more evenly across club members
Initiative To arrange working bees prior to Winter club races to access more club members pitching in – “many hands will make light work”
Rationale
  1. If the Park Management Subcommittee can plan and organise a targeted schedule, require tools, machinery and materials and lead – work can be done more efficiently
  2. By including a greater number of club members in well organised maintenance and building projects that they and their children/friends will directly benefit it will be a massive value add on multiple levels - club, community and park
Need Maintenance/Development Priority Matrice Development
Initiative A Trail Network Matrices will be developed to list all requested maintenance, modification and development initiatives/ideas by trail fairy’s, committee and subcommittee members on one page
Rationale
  1. To have all ideas on one page so as work can be prioritized, organised and ticked off in a more efficient manner that better reflects the needs of the park and its users