Mountainless Bike Club: The 3rd Tee

After some strenuous covert work today - validating footprint data, tailing cars, intercepting phone calls and stealing photo's from peoples camera phones - I turned up the photo's shown below. They show conclusively that "The 3rd Tee" is actually the name for a modified part of the Coomealla-Mildura Mountainless Bike Clubs track!

It appears that two club members were involved in making a sturdy little drop off at the end of the popular "Goat Track" section. It is quite solid and very well constructed. Not only is it higher than the previous drop, but it's constructed from treated pine posts infilled with road base, which has also been used to highlight the landing area and following track.

This work must have been with the clubs upcoming race this weekend (18th May) in mind! It all makes sense!

Here you can see club president Ian Beruldsen caught red-handed, about to take another shovel load of quality road-base to in-fill the drop off.

From footprint surveys I believe that Ian was the ring leader, arriving early in the day and already having one trailer load of road base shoveled and the timber work constructed before another club member - Anthony Connell - came along to help.

I also found evidence of a new "Alternative Route" which turns to the left just before the drop, instead of the right, and shoots safely down between trees. This explains the weird hieroglyphs I found last night - they're actually direction arrows indicating that you have two options of tracks to take at this point! From my early calculations it appears that riders who use the alternative route will loose time to those who take the drop off.

Here you see club member and fellow drop-off conspirator Anthony Connell tentatively peering over the drop. I believe this was taken just prior to his first attempt.

Also found on a camera phone was this photo, which proves that the drop is two feet high: