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 holding the popular Southern Sportive (road cycling) event on Sunday 25 April, 2010.
For further information including online registration, please visit http://www.trailbreak.co.uk/southern_100s/index.php?go=eventinfo&event_id=294 . For further information about Summit MTB Club at the Summit Sixty-Five including how to join, please visit the club’s Membership Information Stand located at the event HQ.
About Summit MTB Club – ‘Ride the Chilterns’
Founded in 2005, Summit MTB Club organises mountain bike rides, races, and coaching sessions throughout the Chilterns. Each month the club holds a ride for prospective new members as detailed in the Rides section of the website. Members also organise regular weekday night rides (Monday and Wednesdays throughout the year), weekend rides, pub rides, weekends away, and social events.
Summit MTB Club is also a British Cycling Go Ride club catering for young riders aged 6-16, and is the only club offering monthly mountain bike coaching sessions, and a summer race series for youth riders. In September, the club holds a mountain bike cross-country racing festival exclusively for young riders.
The club leases a wood from the Forestry Commission, and organises summer evening cross-country races on its purpose-built race course between May and August. For further details including how to enter, please see the Races section of the website.
The club’s online Forum is the ‘meeting place’ of the club for rides, chat, events, Chiltern Ride Guides, technical support, kit reviews, trivia, and much more, and is reserved for members only. For further information about Summit MTB Club including how to join, please visit http://www.summitmtb.co.uk and/or e-mail: summitmtb@gmail.com.
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