The Bendigo Mountain Bike Club celebrated the opening of a new pump track, skills loop and a trail head shelter on Saturday with a welcome to country by the Dja Dja Wurrung and a free sausage sizzle.
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City of Greater Bendigo active and healthy lifestyles manager Lincoln Fitzgerald said the new Spring Gully shelter would serve as a home for the club.
“The new shelter features tables and chairs, a drinking fountain, basic tools to undertake bike repairs, a tyre pump and new signage,” he said.
“The new shelter looks fantastic and will provide the members of the Bendigo Mountain Bike Club with a terrific and much-valued new facility. It's been a great project.”
Bendigo Mountain Bike Club president Rim Martin said the new facility would provide a home base for the club for the first time.
“It provides a centralised meeting post and arrival point of visitors,” he said.
“We’ve never really had a place to say ‘This is where we operate from’ and this project gives us that.”
The $158,000 development was built with $107,000 in funding from the City of Greater Bendigo, $25,000 from the Bendigo Mountain Bike Club, $20,000 from the federal government's Stronger Communities grant program, $5000 from the Strathfieldsaye District Community Enterprise and $1500 from Central Victoria Group Training.
