Australia

The ants of Dungog Common have been at it again, three more pallet bridges eaten away. A request was made for more funding to upgrade the bridges and make them less appealing to ants. $1100 Slush Fund dollars later, with volunteer labour from the club, the job is done.

The Pemberton Visitor Centre in the south west of WA has spent the last ten years building the Pemberton Mountain Bike Park, some 30 kilometres of trail that caters for a range of riders.

The Yackandandah MTB Track network in NE Victoria has named a 17.2km trail after us, the 'Ground Effect Loop'. The Slush Fund helped out with cash for trail maps, and supplied IMBA books so they could build a sustainable network of cross-country mtb trail.

In late 2016 the Tumut Mountain Bike Riders approached the Ground Effect Slush Fund for a cash contribution towards their project to improve signage in the Tumut Mountain Bike Park.

The Kalamunda Mountain Bike Collective hang out on the outskirts of Perth in WA.

Club members and volunteers have been busy constructing sustainable trails to IMBA standards to create the Cradle Coast MTB Park.

Dubbo Mtb Club is a young but growing group of track builders based in Dubbo, NSW. 

In partnership with CORC, the Tuggeranong Trail Rats have negotiated access to Pine Island in South Canberra.

Jindabyne Trail Stewardship hang around the fabulous Snowy Mountains and are busily crafting the dirt in their corner of Terra Australis into sweet singletrack.

The Kowalski ‘Brothers’ have been building sweet flowing singletrackaround Canberra since 1990.