Club Introduction

Sydney Mountain Bike Club aka Sydney MTB Riders is a not for profit association formed to provide a social riding experience for mountain bike riders in the Sydney metropolitan area after a niche was identified. It caters for all levels and styles of Mountain Bike riding for those in the Sydney Metro area, something that has never existed until now. Clubs have been formed for outer Sydney such as Western, Southern and Northern areas but never for the Sydney metro area.

Sydney MTB Riders was formed in December of 2012 and has enjoyed great growth via its Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/sydneymtb ) with over 900 members of that group. We have been very casual up until now and this year we are pushing into a more formal arrangement with a paid membership scheme and organised rides and/or events.

2014/2015 is going to be huge for us! We are currently in the process of designing jerseys for the club members to purchase, organising formal club ride events around Sydney and beyond, assignment of officials to serve as the club board and so much more.

We have several platforms for members to communicate with the club and each other. These include, Facebook Group, Facebook Page and Club Webpage (http://sydneymtb.org or http://sydneymtb.asn.au ).

We have worked hard to build a member base that includes enthusiastic and active people and the Facebook group is a testament to the quality of conversation and enthusiasm of members with multiple new topics posted each day with each drawing many comments in discussion.

The club was formed by Nathan Organ. His background includes mountain bike riding since the mid 1990’s and carries right through to today, still being a very active rider.

Nathan thus far has been the sole driver for the formation of this club with all funding provided by him personally. This has included the formation of the association and tax registration, merchandise such as stickers and initial jerseys, design of logo and website and more.