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Pete Varley’s close call. Recently I was asked about my passion for racing road criteriums (crits) & why I’d drive regularly to Melbourne over the Summer to race them. For those that don’t know, road crits are closed-circuit road races usually around 800m to 1,400m in distance per lap. They are an extremely intense style of racing...

The Mountain Planning Inverted Enduro presented by the Alpine Cycling Club is an uphill time trial from the Mystic MTB Trailhead on Coronation Avenue to the top of Mystic.   This year due to COVID19 restrictions we will be running our first ever “VIRTUAL” Inverted Enduro. Essentially you’ll have 1 week (26th October – 2nd November 2020)...

❗️Alpine Cycling Club Working Bee❗️   When: Saturday 10 October 2020 Time: 9.00am at the ACC Club rooms   The following will be completed: - Meet the ACC trail maintenance/construction team - Induct new trail maintenance ACC members - Work on reinstating Mineshaft Alley   For more information please email: maintenance@alpinecyclingclub.com.au ...

The Great Valley Trail proposed alignment (Bright to Harrietville) is out for public comment. The Great Valley Trail project will deliver 16 kilometres of family friendly shared trail, completing a 27 kilometre link between Harrietville and Bright, and extending the Murray to Mountains Rail Trail to the base of the Alps. You can follow the link below to the relevant...

ACC welcomes Dom into his new role as the Trail Constructor Coordinator. Dom has a strong background of cycling experience including, working with World trail as at trail constructor serving on the MTB Sub committee and  board of the Ballarat / Sebastopol Cycling Club. currently working part time at Cyclepath Bright.   In his new role some of...

Due to the Stage 3 COVID-19 restrictions and the interests of the safety of the ACC members. The use of the ACC club tools/PPE should immediately cease until further notice. If trail maintenance needs to be performed by ACC members it should be done in a COVID-19 safe way and with your own personal tools / PPE and...

Dear Alpine Cycling Club Members, past and present and cycling friends, Over many years we have enjoyed fantastic support from our local bike shops. This support has come in many ways; from sponsoring of our Junior MTB programs, Club Races and trail maintenance donations. Over the last months, we have seen the businesses in Bright doing it...

[highlight color='' background_color='#009ADE']Due to a variety of factors the final round of the 2nd ACC Twilight Series has been cancelled[/highlight]   We'd like to thank everyone that participated and helped out for the Twilight Crit Series, it wasn't all smooth sailing but lots of fast and furious fun was had and the plan is to do it...

On Saturday 7th December, the Alpine Cycling Club will be running our inaugural social shuttle day for current club members. The shuttle vehicles will be taking our riders to the top of Hero and then returning to Pump track area for reloading. We will be hiring buses to take the riders up to the top of...