Ride the Summit Sixty-Five with Summit MTB
Club!
Partnership with Trail Break promotes Summit MTB Club’s
‘Go Ride’ Initiative to Develop Youth Mountain Biking
Summit MTB Club announces a partnership with
Trail Break, the UK’s premier MTB and cycle event specialists. The
partnership is aimed at promoting the development of children in mountain
biking, and a membership drive by Summit MTB Club – Ride the Chilterns.
The partnership adds two new exciting events to the successful Trail Break
Southern Trail Ride format. Firstly, the Summit
Sixty-Five is a 65km MTB Enduro held in the heart of the Chilterns Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty. Secondly, the Summit
Go Ride is a 24km accompanied youth MTB ride for 10-16 year olds. The event
HQ is the Princess Risborough School, Princess Risborough, Buckinghamshire with
both events taking place on Saturday 24 April, 2010.
Summit MTB Club is only local British Cycling Go Ride accredited club focusing
on youth mountain biking. As such the Summit Go Ride event is the first ‘open’
MTB event of its kind for youngsters, and is aimed at raising the profile and
participation of children in mountain biking. The ride is organised and led by
Simon North, Summit MTB Club’s Chairman together with other qualified members of
the extended Summit Go Ride Coaching Team.
The Summit Sixty-Five and shorter route options promise to be real crackers,
being co-developed by Summit’s Club Secretary, Richard Rollins in-conjunction
with Trail Break. The routes include lots of superb, hilly, woodland
singletrack, linking classic Chiltern byways, bridleways, and quiet lanes.
Route planning and rider navigation at the event is helped by the latest
Ordnance Survey colour mapping. Whilst all routes will be fully waymarked, GPX
files will be made available ahead of the event to help navigation during the
ride using GPS devices. Members of Summit MTB Club will also run a feed station
to keep riders fed, watered, and to provide encouragement and basic technical
support.
Trail Break will also run medium (40km) and
shorter (24km) option Southern Trail Rides on the day. The weekend promises
to be a busy one for cycling in the Chilterns with Trail Break also holding
the popular Southern Sportive (road cycling) event on Sunday 25 April, 2010.
To
enter the
Summit
Sixty-Five:
We look forward to seeing many of you on the day which promises to be a
cracking KO to the MTB Enduro season.
Kind regards
Richard Rollins &
Simon North
Summit MTB Club
e:
summitmtb@gmail.com
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