Why Join our Club?
- Meet up with other like-minded crazies.
- Your shiny new bike is less likely to end up mouldering away and covered with cobwebs in the corner of the garage after a couple of rides if you join a club than if you don't. Heaps of people let their good intentions of finding fitness fade away after those first few "Gee this hurts my bum!" rides.
- Find out where the best rides are.
- Reduce chances of getting lost and dying of hypothermia in some forest.
- Clubbies get their bikes off-road (where they're designed to be) much more frequently than non-club-members.
- You get to hear about the good rides coming up, through our web site and newsletter.
- You get to improve your skills by mixing with people who really know what they're doing and don't mind sharing their knowledge with you.
- Great competition for those who want it and mild competition for the lesser mortals among us.
- Female mountainbikers are becoming more active lately and we are planning to have some girls-only rides.
- Single girls! The best looking men in the world all belong to the Hamilton MTB Club, so that's a good reason to join. Our guys love girls with the lean fit bodies you get from mountain biking, but they also love the ones who are still working towards that ideal, and they love girls with mud on.
- You don't have to be a young male fit racer to belong to this club. We love young male fit racers of course but those of our members who are female, not so young, unfit and er . . .speed-challenged, also have a great time!
- Knobbly tyres, cuts 'n bruises, used-to-be-white-socks, barbies at Ross's, adrenalin-pumping downhills, expeditions to Roto-vegas, passing a rival on the Pukete tripleyoo, making it up the sand chute for the first time, pure unrefined good old fashioned fun!!
Word of Warning!
Remember that as with every club, you get out of it what you put into it. It's no good just joining. You have to turn up to rides and events, make friends, go with the flow. It can be the start of a whole new direction socially, physically, anything you like. It can change your life and open up opportunities for adventures you wouldn't have believed possible.
Other Stuff About Us
Some of us are very special for all sorts of reasons. We put these people on our "Profile Page" for a few weeks to make them world famous. We now have a page just for committee members so you can see who they are and what they look like. Be very nice to committee members since they are the ones who work flatout for $0.00 per hour to keep our club going. (We're thinking of doubling their pay soon though.)
Our "Events Page has information about rides and events we have coming up. We put information and links to the people who help us or people we like, on our Friends Page. Let us know if you want to be there and if we like you, we'll put you there too.
Our Map Page has a map of Pukete and another map of how to get there. Our News Page has news about the club, latest rides and races etc.
We are constantly bothered by our club's vicious gossip, Patrick, the Possum. He lurks with his rellies in our training ground at Pukete and takes photos of us, (usually when we are not looking our coolest) and tattle-tales on us when we mis-behave.
