09/11/2025
Wow, what a great fun day today for Wild West Series Rd.1. We were blessed with amazing conditions after beautiful overnight rain made the track firm and grippy, and 100+ people got to enjoy it. We love sharing our piece of the bush for others to enjoy, and it was great to catch up with so many long-term members of the SEQ MTB community after a couple of years gap.
Happy 15th Birthday to the Wild West Series, which began as a club series between Adare and Walloon.
This year also marks 20 years since Adare hosted its first XC event - a round of the Sunshine Series under the auspices of TRC
A lot of sweat has fallen into the soil here since then.
Three months ago we began the optimistic task of reclaiming the track after a couple of years of letting it slip back into the wilderness, so a huge thanks to the machete hit squad, Aaron Martin, Mitch Pinnell, Dan O'Brien and Liam Dipple, and Stephen Pozzebon for adding finishing touches with the blower yesterday, plus a big thanks to Nathan Cowell for Traffic-Copping the busy top intersection all morning. Thanks too to Lindsey Perry and Mere Bognar for parking the cars for us.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
Cheers, JP