I am yet another sportsman whom has been diagnosed with MND (motor neuron disease). I went from doing the Trans Baviaans 
last year to almost not being able to climb stairs today. As you can imagine, being a huge mtbiker it has made a huge impact in my life.
With the disease there are unfortunately huge medical bills and lifestyle changes. Most treatments are experimental so the medical aids won’t pay for anything and according to Western medicine, there is no cure.
Specialized with Cycles Direct has donated a mtb to raffle in order to help me raise funds.
It is a brand new 2012 Specialized Epic Comp 29er worth R32 500 and tickets sell at R100 each.
I hope you can help to spread the word for me.
The bike can be viewed and tickets bought at Cycles Direct or from a fellow member, Darryl Hunt. He can be contacted by email
If you would like any more information, please let me know.
Kind regards
Trix Thompson
Should you wish to make a financial contribution to PROJECT TINKERBELL, the bank account details of PROJECT TINKERBELL’s informal body are as follows:
ACC NAME: PROJECT TINKERBELL
BANK: STANDARD BANK
BRANCH: BAYSIDE
BRANCH CODE: 022209
ACC NO: 410130311
Then email me your reference “Raffle [Name + Surname]. Once the monies reflect, I’ll email you back to confirm payment and your ticket number/s. The draw takes place on 11 March. darryl.hunt@dynamicenergy.co.za
James Thornhill-Fisher
Morné Veer Sounds great, especially that I was told that the Hillcrest Night Ride is a NO NO for Wednesday !
Tracy McOwen Awesome :-D18 hours ago via mobile ·
Tandi Kitching .... so for all the Wednesday night riders, please reschedule for Meerendal this thursday. Please also note (and communicate to all other mtb'ers) that we aren't allowed on any of the trails between sunset and sunrise except for organised club rides.
Henk Neuhoff Where is the "dont like" button for no Hillcrest ride?
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might not know is the enormous amount of work that was actually done pre-epic. This includes coordinating with the organizers, continuous talks on trails and assisting with making sure that on the day everything went smoothly. Thank you to the whole committee and especially to Matthew in working closely with the race organizers.
Those of you that have been out on the trails will also notice that a lot of work was done on our trails pre-epic. This includes areas at Meerendal, Hillcrest and Kliprug.
Some general maintenance done pre-epic: Repairs on all crossings and bridges, surface cleaning and clearing and compacting of corners and bends. Now all we need is some rain as we all know the trail surfaces are very hard and dusty making work on trails quite difficult at this time.
Further on special request from the Epic organizers we have cleared a track next to the Dorstberg road leading up the mountain. This track continues as you would come down the singletrack. This is just a temporary surface and although a lot of work was done to clear this, please do not continue to use it. A bridge was also built next to the lawn area to accommodate the start/finish for the Epic.
All signage at the spectator viewpoints (200 signs) was put up by Matthew and special thanks to him for making it possible for spectators to know exactly from where they could get the best views during the prologue.
All of this was done by the Tygerberg Mountain Bike Club for the Epic.
We have received fantastic reviews and especially the international riders, they said that we have some of the most fantastic trails that they have ever seen. We should be proud of our trails and make sure that as club members we take care that our trails and ensure that they are not abused by non members.
Please respect trails that have been closed as these are closed for either safety reasons or are not part of our trail layout currently. 
