The Victorian town of Mount Beauty is some what of a Mecca for mountain bikers of all disciplines in Australia with a myriad of trails that will blow your mind. Over the weekend we headed there to take in the latest of the Victorian All Mountain Series, a series that has rapidly grown in a very short period of time.
The track was a bit different from the past few rounds, out of pine forests and back into Aussie bush, the race was held on established trails, so they were fully bedded in, by the end of the weekend their was some track wear starting to creep in. There were a few tight corners but overall it lived up to theA�reputation the area has, which is quite high with notorious tracks such as Big Hill to thank for this. People came out in force for the event with over 14o entrants for the race, organisers reacted by running more transport which meant you never had to wait too long for shuttles.
Racing ran smoothly and in the end Daniel MacMunn kept up his winning ways taking out round 3 with Rhys Atkinson, at his first enduro race, placed second. Rhys said it is a completely different type of fitness, well a second place shows he must have some of it whatever it is!
Another important event happened over the weekend at the race, it was the raffle and auction held for Sam Brownlie, the rider who crashed at Mount Buller earlier in the year. In the end over $4000 was raised for Sam, a massive effort by everyone involved but one that shows how cool and willing to help out the greater mountain bike community is. The next race and the final for the series will be heldA�in Beechworth early March.