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The Greenlink Mountain Bike Club moves up a gear.

The Greenlink Mountain Bike Club held it's first AGM in January 2010 which marked the end of a very successful year.

The club, established in January 2009, is a family orientated club where kids and parents can ride together.

Everyone is welcome, so if its your first time on a bike or you're a pro and keen to go out with the family, then this is the club for you. 

The Greenlink Mountain Bike Club meets every Sunday morning at 10AM outside Strathclyde Country Park's Watersport Centre for local rides throughout the Greenlink Project area taking in tricky single tracks you might not know about, as well as routes in Strathclyde Country Park and Chatelherault, which has great mountain biking.

 The Club also hold once-a-month away days to places such as Carron Valley, Glen Tress and Seven Stanes in the borders.Tracks which have been classed as some of the best mountain biking in the world!!

On Monday's between 6pm and 8pm the club offer even more to club members with a range of activities such as free bike maintenance, emergency first aid training and map reading.

The club is for all ages, 8 years and up, and abilities, so if you're new to mountain biking, haven't yet given it a try or been riding for years, then we want to hear from you, because this club will be perfect for all of you! If you don't own a bike or helmet we may be able to provide them for you.

At the moment on a Sunday we have to limit places on the rides so you MUST BOOK a place.

 You can book a place by contacting Brian at gmtbcsecretary@aol.co.uk  or calling him on 07717 016788 and he will provide you with registration forms and membership details.

Not sure if its your cup of tea? Well you can try the club three times before you are asked to join.

Cycling Scotland granted the first £5,000 towards the Mountain Bike Club on the Greenlink.

Mountain Bike Skills Zone on track for 2010

Great news for Motherwell residents as proposed Skills Zone is on target to be completed this year.

In 2007 Central Scotland Forest Trust's Greenlink Project carried out a Youth Survey of local children and discovered that more than 70% of the childen wished to have a mountain bike skills zone in the area.

The proposed Skills Zone, to be located adjacent to the Greenlink Cycle Route and behind the new joint campus of Cathedral Primary and Fir Park School will offer mountain bikers the chance to try some technical off-road riding by having the opportunity to try out a number of circuits of varying difficulty that may contain over a dozen obstacles.

Recently, £30,000 of funding has been committed by VIRIDOR to construct the Mountain Bike Zone. An application is also going in to the Forestry Commission Scotland in early June 2010.

Free Up-Lift service for Scramble Bike users continues this year. 

The free up-lift service for scramble bikers within the Greenlink Project area re-started on the 28th of March 2010. This gives people who enjoy scramble and quad biking their only chance to ride legally within North Lanarkshire.  

To find out more check out North Lanarkshire Scramble and Quad Bike Club or phone Bob on 07759159219.

 Interested in the scramble bike up-lift service then contact  us at the Greenlink and put your names down today!

New website is now up and running - check it out at greenlinkmountainbikeclub.co.uk