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About the Singapore National Mountainbike
Championships 2006
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The Singapore National Mountainbike Championship
2006 marks the fourth year that SACA is holding
a national level championship! The Inaugural
Schools Mountainbike Championship was held
in 2003 as part of the Second Annual Subaru Mountainbike
Race 2003 in Sentosa. The Second
Schools Mountainbike Championship was held
a year later in 2004 as part of the Third International
Mountainbike Race 2004 also on the Sentosa
mountain bike trail. Last year, the National
Championships (Elite) Championships 2005 was
held in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve Mountainbike
Trail. And this year, the national championship
takes place at a brand new trail just waiting for
you to take on its challenge - the Kent
Ridge Mountainbike Trail!
This race offers a platform
for budding mountain bike enthusiasts to prove that
they have what it takes to be a future SEA Games medallist!
It is also open to foreign residents and foreigners
visiting Singapore, as well as bikers who want a taste
of a brand new mountain bike trail in Singapore, easily
up for the running as being the toughest off-road
mountain bike trail in Singapore!
So what are you waiting for? Mark Sunday 23
July 2006 in your calendar!
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About
the Kent Ridge Mountain Bike Trail
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Kent Ridge Park
is a 47 ha park managed by Singapore
National Parks Board. Located on Vigilante Drive
off South Buona Vista Road, it can be accessed via
Vigilante Drive, Science Park Drive and Pepys Road.
One of the last battles for Singapore was
fought on this hill which dominated the harbour and
the British military depots in the Ayer Rajah area.
A plaque was installed at carpark B in commemoration
of the 50th Anniversary of the end of World War II.
As part of the Army's adoption of the park
as The Army Green Park, two decommissioned
M114 Artillery Guns and an AMX-13 Light Tank are displayed
in the park to provide points of interest.
The design of the park takes full
advantage of the natural vegetation and topography
of the site. It offers fitness enthusiasts 20 fitness
stations, nature groups a nature trail where they
can enjoy pitcher plants and wild orchids, families
a chance to enjoy a stroll around the natural ponds
teeming with turtles and Japanese Koi, and birdwatchers
a chance to catch a glimpse of the sunbirds, doves,
squirrels, lizards, and white-crested laughing thrushes
along the 280 metre long canopy walking which links
the park to the museum, Reflections of Bukit Chandu.
In the month of July 2006, mountain bikers will be
able to enjoy an additional new feature - one
of the most challenging mountain biking trails Singapore
has to offer!
The Kent Ridge Mountainbike
Trail is the result of many months
of hard manual labour, blood, sweat and tears invested
by SACA, NParks and members of the MTB cycling community
in making this trail happen! The following persons
were instrumental in the creation of this trail :-
* Alvin Francis Lok, NParks Manager, Kent
Ridge Park
* Liyana Zolpakar, NParks
* Max Mager, SACA General Manager
* Lim HuiMin, SACA Coach
* Nik Ho, Papa Smurf of Smurf Bike Clinic fame
with the assistance of :-
* Chew Eng Seng, SACA Mountainbike Cyclist
* Ang Kee Ming, SACA Road Cyclist
* Justin Cheong, SACA Road Cyclist
* Yap Chi Wei, Wheelsareturning
* Lee Chuen Ling, SACA MTB Subcommittee
* Renhao, SACA MTB Subcommittee
* All the banglas who toiled daily under the supervision
of NParks and SACA
For more information about the Kent
Ridge Park, please go to the NParks
website, Habitatnews
website and Mindef
website.
Information
as at 6 July 2006
The trail will be open for an Smurf Jamboree Ride
on Sunday, 9 July 2006
to introduce mountain bikers to the new trail (please
sign up for the jamboree ride to avoid trail crowding).
After the ride, a Smurf Bike Clinic will be conducted.
If you wish to sign up for this bike clinic, please
sign up on this website: http://asia.groups.yahoo.com/group/smurfs_bike_clinics.
Remember to click on the ‘database’ link
to sign up so that the Smurfs can anticipate the number
of people coming and activate enough smurfs!
If you do not wish to sign up for the orientation
ride or the bike clinic but wish to practise on the
trail, we would appreciate your cooperation in riding
after the clinic to avoid any potential bottlenecks.
Meanwhile, we appreciate your cooperation
in not riding on the trail under construction is over
as there are dangerous and sharp items lying
around in this very narrow trail and we will not be
held responsible if you are injured by these items.
Your unexpected presence during this period (in particular
if you are riding) may also cause injury to the trailbuilders
who are using these dangerous items. Thank you in
advance for being considerate.
Information as at 9 July 2006 (NEW)
We would like to thank the 58 mountain bikers
for attending the Kent Ridge Jamboree Ride
this morning and for providing feedback about the
KR trai! We hope you enjoyed the ride and found the
new trail to be an exciting new development in mountain
biking in Singapore!
Our thanks goes to the 15 SACA Officials /
Smurfs / Friends of SACA who made the ride
possible :-
* Nik - Papa Smurf and Ride Master
* Pling - registration/CP5 ic
* Ling - bike test/CP 1 ic
* Rebecca - bike test ic
* HuiMin - medic/CP2 ic
* RenHao - CP3 ic
* Chi - CP4 ic
* Jaymes - safety/CP6
* Samuel - Hike/Ride leader
* Chew - Hike/Ride leader
* Mann - Hike/Ride leader
* Max - PR
* Jolie - Crowd control
* Boey - Crowd control
* Max, Huimin, Nik, Ling, Renhao, Pling, Chi, Jaymes
and Alano - Setting Up Signage and Tape on Saturday
To hear what the participants have to say
about the Kent Ridge Mountain bike Trail,
click on the KR News Page!
Photos taken by Huimin also available!
The Kent Ridge Mountain Bike trail is now
unofficially open until the end of the race day!
NOTICE FROM NPARKS : Please note
that the Mountainbike Trail will
be closed after the competition so as to allow further
works to be carried out on the trail. For your own
safety, please refrain from using the trail until
further notice.
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Race Details
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HOW
DO I GET TO KENT RIDGE PARK?
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The park is located along
the perimeter of South Buona Vista Road, Science
Park Drive and Pepys Road. Best way to access
it to get to the bikepark is via Vigilante Drive
off South Buona Vista Road.
If you are taking a bus, you
can take the following buses
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Service 200 : alight at South Buona Vista Road,
then proceed by foot via Vigilante Drive.
Service 92 : Alight at the end of Science Park
Drive.
Services 10, 30, 51, 61, 143 and 176 to Pasir
Panjang Road and proceed by foot via Pepys Road.
If you are taking a taxi, you
may alight at carpark B and cycle or walk to
the Start / Finish / Registration Area.
If you are driving, on race
day, Carpark B will be available on race day
(Carpark A will be closed). All the carparks
are available on all other days if you wish
to visit the park to practise on the trail.
You may also park at other nearby carparks located
along South Buona Vista Rd e.g. Cold Storage
carpark. (For Carpark B, see map above or streetdirectory.com
directions).
Information
Update as at 14 July 2006 (NEW)
If you are driving, on race
day, you may also part at the Vista
Park open area. Drive up Vigilante
Drive and take the first right, and then right
again until you come to an open concrete space.
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WHERE IS THE START / FINISH REGISTRA-
TION
AREA?
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Carpark
A (see map above or streetdirectory.com
directions)
If you are parked at Carpark B
or Vista Park, you would have
passed by Carpark on your left on the way to
Carpark B or Vista Park. Just backtrack and
follow Viglante Road down to the start point
which will be on your right.
If you are entering from South Buona
Vista Road heading up Vigilante Park,
take the first left towards Carpark A.
Information
Update as at 14 July 2006 (NEW)
If you are planning on setting
up your team tents, there wil be a designated
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WHAT
ARE THE CATEGORIES?
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Information
Update as at 18 July 2006 (NEW)
Thank you all for your feedback
on the KR MTB Trail. While we would love to
let you off-road junkies enjoy the total "off-road"
experience, in order to prevent the foreseeable
bottleneck at the off-road portion of the trail,
we have decided to extend each lap to include
the tarmac portion. So, each lap is now 2.8
km and the rider who gets to the offroad trailhead
first gets to clear the course without other
riders getting in your way!
Please note however that the above change applies
to ALL CATEGORIES EXCEPT FOR THE ELITE
CATEGORY. The Elite riders will start
with the 1st extended lap of 2.8km, and thereafter
each lap will be the off-road singletrack lap
of 1.7 km (i.e. excluding the tarmac portion).
| Category |
Description
/ Age |
No
of Laps* / Total Distance |
| Men’s Sport
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19 yrs & above
: Born in 1987 and before |
4
laps = 11.20 km |
| Men’s Junior
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15 to 18 yrs : Born
in 1988 to 1991 |
3
laps = 8.4 km |
| Ladies Open |
15 yrs & above
: Born in 1991 and before |
2
laps = 5.6 km |
| Men’s Masters
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40 yrs & above
: Born in 1966 and before |
3
laps = 8.4 km |
| Weekend Warrior |
No age limit. First
time competitors or Competitors who are
content to do the minimum laps around the
course. |
2
laps = 5.6 km |
| Men’s Elite
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19 yrs & above
: Born in 1987 and before AND Ranked, Experienced
& National riders |
10
laps = 18.10 km |
| Youths
A |
Boys and Girls,
10 -14 yrs : Born in 1992 to 1996 |
Small
course (no of laps to be determined) |
| Youths
B |
Boys & Girls,
9 yrs & below : Born in 1997 and after |
Small
course (no of laps to be determined) |
1. Each participant may
take part in more than 1 category provided he/she
meets the criteria above and will be subject
to the charges for each category.
2. Each lap for all categories
(except for the Youths and Men's Elite) shall
be 2.8km per lap.
3. The first lap for the Men's Elite category
shall be the extended 2.8 km lap, and each subsequent
lap is a shorter 1.7 km lap.
3. It is estimated that the timing per each
2.8 km extended lap for an elite rider is approx
11 mins, and for an experienced rider, approx
15 mins! The estimated timing per each subsequent
shorter lap of 1.7 km is approx 8 minutes, and
for an experienced rider, approx 12 minutes.
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WHAT
ARE THE RACE FEES AND WHAT IS IN THE GOODY BAG?
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| Category |
Race
Fees
(SACA Member)
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Race
Fees
(Non SACA Member) |
| 19 yrs
& above : Born in 1987 and before |
$30 |
$40 |
18 yrs & below
: Born in 1988 and after
(except for Youths participants) |
$20 |
$30 |
| Youths A and B |
$10 |
$20 |
1. All participants of races
organized by SACA including this race must be
a SACA or UCI-SACA member, or a member of any
of its affiliated associations, or have a valid
UCI licence. If not, he/she can always apply
for a $10 Race Day License, which is already
factored into the above race fees. All participants
must produce their membership cards at registration.
2. To join as a SACA / UCI-SACA Member, go to
membership
application procedures. Please ensure
that you apply for a SACA membership at the
same time or prior to our receipt of your race
entry form.
3. Each participant must pay the race entry
fees (S$) in full with each entry form.
4. Each participant taking part in more than
1 category will be subject to the charges for
each category.
5 . The Entry Fee entitles each participant
to a goody bag containing the following items
:-
- A specially designed Singapore National MountainBike
Championship 2006 T-shirt
- A Certificate of Participation
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(NEW) 1 bottle of Gatorade
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(NEW) 1 hammergel
- Other sponsored items from our generous sponsors
- And all the above items contained in a cool
bike feeding sling bag!
- Bragging rights - a chance to be one of the
first participants to have taken on the new
KR MTB trail!
- AND A CHANCE TO ENTER THE LUCKY DRAW
AND WIN YOUR DREAM PRIZE! (See below)
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and back of T-shirt (NEW)
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Bike Sling Bag (NEW)
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WHAT
IS
THE
SCHEDULE?
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Date
/ Time |
What's
happening |
Venue |
Sunday 9 July
06 |
Smurf Jamboree Ride followed by Smurf
Bike Clinic * |
Carpark A, Kent Ridge
Park |
Saturday 15
July 06
4 pm -5 pm |
SACA Advance MTB
Clinic 1 (conducted by National
MTBer, Samuel Yang and National Coach, Lim
Huimin) ** |
Carpark A, Kent Ridge
Park |
Thursday 20
July 06 |
Closing date for entry forms and payment |
Mailing to SACA Address
or Visit any SACA Registration Centre |
Friday 21
July 06
5.30 - 6.30 pm |
(NEW)
SACA Advance MTB
Clinic 2 (conducted by National
MTBer, Samuel Yang and National Coach, Lim
Huimin) ** |
Carpark A, Kent Ridge
Park |
Sunday 23
July 06 |
Singapore National Mountainbike Championship
2006 |
Kent Ridge Park |
0715 am |
Registration + Goody Bag collection +
Number Tag Allocation |
Carpark A |
0745-0755
am |
1st wave of participants : Mens Sports,
Mens Junior and Ladies Open to sign in +
race briefing |
Startline Holding
Area |
0800 am |
Mens Sports flag off |
Startline |
0802
am |
Mens Junior flag off |
Startline |
0802
am (NEW)
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Ladies Open flag off |
Startline |
| 0915
am
(after first wave races are completed) |
Youths A and B |
Short course |
| 0930
am (NEW)
(after first wave race and youths races
are over) |
2nd wave of participants : Mens Masters
and Weekend Warriors to sign in + race briefing |
Startline Holding
Area |
0945 am
(NEW)
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Mens Masters flag off |
Startline |
0947 am
(NEW)
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Weekend Warrior flag off |
Startline |
1015 am
(after second wave race is over) |
3rd wave of participants : Mens Elite
to sign in + race briefing |
Startline Holding
Area |
1030
am |
Mens Elite flag off |
Startline |
1300 pm |
Prize Presentation (pls see prizes to
be given away below) and Lucky Draw!!! |
Prize Presentation
Area |
1330 pm |
Event ends |
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* If you are interested in
attending the Smurf Jamboree Ride or the Smurf
Bike Clinic or both, please please sign up on
this website: http://asia.groups.yahoo.com/group/smurfs_bike_clinics
by Friday, 7 July 2006.
Information
Update as at 18 July 2006 (NEW)
** If you are interested in joining the SACA
Advance Bike Clinic, pls email bikeclinic@eaglet.org
before the clinic dates so that you can fill
in the clinic entry form (pls note if you are
18 years and below, you will need to get your
parents / guardian's signature on the form).
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WHAT ARE
THE PRIZES FOR TOP 10 AND FINISHERS?
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1. National Mens
Elite Champion Trophy + Mens Elite Championship
Jersey *
2. National Mens Elite 1st Runner Up Trophy
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3. National Mens Elite 2nd Runner Up Trophy
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4. National Ladies Open Championship Trophy
+ Ladies Open Championship Jersey *
5. 1st to 3rd placing for all categories : trophy
6. 4th - 10th placing for all categories : medal
7 . All other participants who have finished
their race : finisher medal
Products from our generous sponsors will also
be given prizes (information to be updated).
* For Singaporean riders only
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HOW DO
I REGISTER FOR THIS RACE?
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1. All nationalities are welcome to join the
race, but you must meet the eligibility requirements
set out in the Rules
and Regulations.
2. Simply download the Race
Entry Release and Indemnity Form
and complete the form. When filing out the form,
please assist us by writing clearly and legibly
and tick the right columns in the application
form to assist us with the processing of your
application. If you are 18 years old and below
(i.e. born in 1988 and after), you need your
parent's consent and signature on the entry
form to join the competition. Please note that
we do not accept entries via fax or email. Incomplete
entries will not be accepted.
3. Kindly either (a) mail the form to the SACA
Maiing Address or (b) visit any SACA
Registration Centre
and submit your form, together with the appropriate
race entry fees.
4. Race entry fees are
payable by cheque or in cash. Cheques are to
be made payable to “Singapore
Amateur Cycling Association”.
Cheques made out to “SACA”
will not be accepted. Cheques may be mailed
to the SACA Mailing Address or deposited at
any SACA Registration Centre (see above). Cash
payments shall only be made to the SACA Registration
Centres. Please do not send cash by post.
5. The closing date for applications is Thursday,
20 July 2004, 6 pm. If you miss
that date, you may still sign up on race day
on Sunday, 23
July 2004 at
the registration booth, but a $20
late registration fee will be
payable and you may not be guaranteed a goody
bag. So, send in your applications early to
avoid any disappointment.
6 . Upon acceptance of your application, participants
who wish to withdraw from the race will not
have his/her membership fee / licence fee /
entry fee refunded.
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WHAT
ARE THE RULES AND REGULA-
TIONS?
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The
rules and regulations are set out here.
The Race Director will be the final authority
on the administration of the rules and regulations.
Please note this race is not part of the SACA
MTB Series 2006 and no points will be allocated
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Race
Course and Elevation Maps
New
Map as at 18 July 2006 (NEW)
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Sponsors
We would like to take this opportunity to thank
the following sponsors and supporters, without which
this event
would not have been possible.
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SUPPORTED
BY |
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SPORTING
SPECTRUM
http://www.sportingspectrum.com.au
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SINGAPORE
CYCLING FORUMS
www.sgcycling.org
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SPECIAL
ACKNOW-
LEDGEMENTS
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The Smurfs (for their bike clinics)
The Trailbuilders (volunteers who built the
KR bike course)
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Media
Coverage
News about the race,
hot off the press!
Yang
Rides to Victory in Elite Race, ST Interactive, 24
July 2006
Singapore
National Championship 2006 Results, ST Interactive,
24 July 2006
Mountain Bike
C'Ships at Kent Ridge, ST Sports, 12 July 2006
Thank you to @Life TV for doing an excellent job covering
this event. Hope you gave the cameramen your biggest
smile! More information to be provided on video footage.
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Results,
Photos and videos
Here
are the results and photo albums you've been waiting
for:
Results / Album1 /
Album2 / Album3 / Album4 / Album5 / Album6
2 videos of the race were taken by Papa Smurf,
Nik and Yew Weng.
Nik's
Video - Kent Ridge SACA MTB Race
Yew
Weng's Video - MTB Championships Kent Ridge Trail
If you would like to share your photos and videos,
please send your album url to mtb@cycling.org.sg.
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Trail
Construction and Maintenance
The Kent Ridge
Mountain Bike Trail is still under
construction and we appreciate your patience in staying
off the trail until it is unofficially open to the
public on Sunday,
9 July 2006 when the Smurf
Jamboree Ride will be conducted. The objective of
the Smurf Jamboree Ride are twofold :-
Ride Objective 1 – To garner feedback from a
representative sample of intermediate-level mountain
bikers
Other than the trail designers, those
attending the clinic will be the first group to ride
the trail – One of the objectives of this ride
is to garner feedback on the trail design and trail
features as well as potential danger areas which the
trailbuilders may have overlooked. With your feedback,
we aim to continuously improve trail ‘flow’
and safety. However do note that this trail is intended
to be more technically demanding than BT.
Ride Objective 2 –
To establish a trail community within the wider population
of bikers
The few trailbuilders working on the preliminary stage
of the trailbuilding project actually learnt a lot.
The bikers got to understand trail construction techniques,
erosion prevention, drainage and other ecologically
friendly aspects of trail work while non-bikers learnt
a lot about flow lines, drop offs, skinnies etc. Hopefully,
some of you would be keen to join in the volunteer
effort that made this trail possible in the first
place.
There may be more trailwork to be done to extend the
trail after the race and to thereafter maintain the
biketrail. If you are interested in helping out, please
contact mtb@cycling.org.sg
and we'll keep you in the loop on future trailbuilding
and trail maintenance events.
Meanwhile, we are still working on the trail and test-riding
section by section. If the trailbuilders see anyone
on the trail prior to Sunday,
9 July 2006, that biker
personally agrees to volunteer him / herself as a
bangla for the day and have his/her bike impounded
until he /she puts in 3 days of trail working time!!!
NOTICE FROM NPARKS : Please note
that the Mountainbike Trail will
be closed after the competition so as to allow further
works to be carried out on the trail. For your own
safety, please refrain from using the trail until
further notice.
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