Adelaide MTB Trails

Hi Guys,

I've received heaps of good feedback and have spent the last month implementing the most popular requests:

- Ability to draw your own trails (for people without GPS devices)
- Fullscreen mode
- Location search & Trails close by (you'll be able to see other trails that are close to the area you're looking at)
- Overlays: Youtube, Panoramio, Wikipedia and Webcams
- Descriptions for trails
- Other Bug fixes

As this site is still very new I'd love:

1. People to upload/draw their trails to share with others.
2. Any feedback about the site - good and bad. (any features you'd like to see).

Looking forward to your trails and comments.

http://www.mytrails.com.au

Mark

Hi Guys,

I've recently developed a new site based around uploading and sharing trails with the bike community of Australia.

http://www.mytrails.com.au

My aim is to provide riders with a central hub where they can share their trails with other riders or to help them find new trails. The site is aimed towards all types of riders from the casual to the more hardcore.

Members can upload and manage their own trails in GPX or the popular TCX format and keep a list of their favourite trails from other riders. The interactive maps allow you to click and view distance and elevation at any point in real time.

You can view any trail in 'Map', 'Satellite' and even 'Earth' view right from your browser.

Once logged in you can type in your address to get interactive directions on how to get to a trail or share any trail via Facebook, Twitter or Email.

Becoming a member allows you to download any shared map in GPX format. And best of all - it's totally FREE.

As this site is still very young I need:

1. People to upload their trails to share with others.
2. Any feedback about the site - good and bad. (any features you'd like to see).

Looking forward to your trails and comments.

Mark

Hi Paul,

Thanks for doing the map, that's great. I don't know much about the Northern area's so it's good to see what's there.

MM

Hi all.

I have just put together a Google map of a short ride along the Gawler rail corridor.

It is a combination of vehicle access track and single track.

It is only about 5km each way and rather simple, but its fun when you need something more than the road can offer.

Go to http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=107178415746339037611.0004767065225ef821d5b

Enjoy,

Paul.

Hi Mij,

I certainly wouldn't recommend Callington if you want some cross country downhill, it's very flat and sandy up there. Also you need a local to show you around there otherwise you'll be disappointed.

Sorry to hear you didn't like Fox, sounds like you might have used the official map of the area. It tends to send you along fire road or onto full on downhill. But there is some other great cross country up there, but sounds like you might have missed that.

My best tip would be to join the Adelaide Mountain Bike Club forum and post you question up there, you'll get plenty of responses and maybe also find like minded people to hook up with. They're a pretty good bunch on the forum and always keen to help out.

http://www.amtbc.com/forum

Hi

Great site - it needs more publicity !

We are new to Mountain biking and still building up our fitness. We are 3 dads aged 44, 47 , 45 and 3 boys all aged 12.

We love it and have a window now where we can ride every weekend until October.

We are looking for a longer ride - mostly downhill because we are all still getting bike fit . It could have a few uphill sections but not many .

We are very comfortabel on "blue" tracks and have also done a couple of black but find them a bit challenging still. We didn't really enjoy Fox because you seem to either be riding on a fire access road or plumetting over riocks and drop offs that make your toes curl.

Any recommendations?

I see the Callington Ride - perhaps we could do the first half of that?

Where is the longest downhill ride in and around Adelaide ?

Cheers - any help would be much appreciated

Hey Clinster,

Yeah that's cool, link away. :-)

I tried the link above but it didn't work, is it right?

I'll try again later, maybe it's just a server bug.

B

Hi Clinster here or Superlight on the amtbc forums.
Hope you dont mind i have linked your site from my site.

http://www.freewebs.com/clinster73/mountainbikelinks.htm

Rough hand sketched map of Prospect Hill XC trails added.

ProspectHillMap.jpg

Added Callington and Foxy1000 topo maps, from Endo's flickr album.

Profile and GPS data for Mawson trail climb from Castambul to Fox Creek XC trails.

Hi Buttso Endo,

That's a good idea, I've just been throwing the raw google earth data up, will have a look at putting some markers in. Still learning this google earth stuff. :-)

Burping Squidie

Hey there Burping Squid — I've not downloaded your trails yet, but from a quick squiz at the image caps (ie callie epic) it'd be helpful to add an annotation to indicate the start of the trail and the direction of travel.

-buttso doing an endo-

Added some GPS info from a 2008 foxy1000 planning ride. Just bare bones data so don't expect anything fancy.

http://adelaidexctrails.wikidot.com/foxy1000

Thanks dude. :-)

Get the word out there about this site!!

Some cool photo's of Eagle Park from a recent social ride (just a bunch of silly old goats if you ask me :)

Eagle Park Photo's

ref Escapegoat

Just testing.

hmm, who was that masked man (or maybe woman)……

Yep, looks like you can!

Rock on squidie, great initiative.

Whoa! Didn't notice your reply for 4 days,, oops. Yep, definitely first member.

Not racing Sat, too slack. I think I'm in holiday Xmas mode early :-)

Club night was neat.