Home Made Bike Trails in the Shire

We all love seeing our kids out in the fresh air and riding their bikes. But building unauthorised tracks on Shire land poses serious challenges.

Recently, some ‘home-made’ bike jumps on Shire land were cleared. The Shire is responsible for what happens on its reserves, and while bike tracks are a blast, they can lead to injuries, and those injuries can incur high insurance bills. 

“We all want our kids to have fun outside, but when things aren’t built to standard by qualified people and things go wrong, people often look to the Shire to fund the damage that was caused. Our role is to make sure the right things happen in the right way, in the right place,” Ms Meldrum explained.

Just 200m from the home-made jumps is the Brookfield Mountain Bike Junior Skills Area, a network of tracks that were built by the Shire and the local community.

“We realised that the local kids wanted a place to ride so we spent literally hundreds of hours working closely with kids and families to build epic tracks that are sustainable, safe and lots of fun.”

The bike park includes a loop of gravel bike jumps and berms in the bush reserve off Andrews Way. The project involved professional trail builders Magic Dirt Trailworx, who partnered with the Shire and local kids to facilitate dig days and workshops to encourage respect for the environment as well as teach the sophisticated skills of trail building. 

For more information about bike tracks in the shire, click here.