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Bike trail push By Taylah Eastwell Hills residents have formed a committee pushing for the establishment of a set of mountain bike trails in Cockatoo. The new Cockatoo Mountain Bike Trails committee recently began reaching out to different groups and authorities in hopes of kicking off a discussion on a new mountain bike area for the scenic village. One of the driving forces behind the push, Ben Anable said there had always been a
lack of short, quick mountain bike trails with “jumps and berms” in the local area. “There is nothing in the whole Cardinia Shire that caters for what we are trying to do here. Lysterfield Lake is the closest place for trails, but that is focused more on cross country, the trails we want would be around 1km long with a two to three minute descend at the bottom then you’d ride back up and go back down again,” Mr Anable explained. Having got back into bikes last year during
Covid-19 lockdowns, Mr Anable said there had been a huge resurgence in people getting back on their bike. “You couldn’t buy bikes, they were sold out or you couldn’t get one for under $1500 because they were in such high demand,” he said. Mr Anable said the potential for local businesses, cafes, bakeries and AirBnBs in Cockatoo and surrounds was “huge” if the track were to go through.
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“Harcourt, south of Bendigo, recently built a mountain bike system and have had 31,000 visitors in 18 months. They estimate the spending of $1.6 million locally after the trails went in. “There’s another place in Derby, a sleepy little town in Tassie, they spent three million on some trails that now average 30,000 visitors a year and puts around $31 million back into the Tasmanian economy,” he said. Continued on page 3
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