Bob Pettitt Reserve Bike Park Revamp

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A community-led design of a revamped bike park has been produced by young local riders and representatives from the Surf Coast Mountain Bike Club and Anglesea Bike Park Committee.

View the design here(PDF, 13MB)

PROJECT COMPLETION - April 2023

The new park is open for community use. The bike park features 3 jump lines suitable for riders of all ages to enjoy. 

The project was a true collaboration between community and Council and we’re rapt with the outcome. We appreciate the enormous efforts of dedicated volunteers who helped out right through the project, from the design to finishing off the features. Now that they’ve registered with Council they will be able to continue to help maintain the bike park for everyone to ride. If anyone else is interested in working on the bike park, please check out the Volunteering section.

 

What would a revamped bike park mean to local riders?

“It would be nice to hang out with my friends from Jan Juc at a local park doing something we enjoy doing.” (Josh, 12 years old)

“It’s great as it will help girls of all ages to get out on the bike. It will give people the chance to shred, almost like the feeling of shredding down a mountain.” (Belle, 11 years old)

“So kids stop building jumps on council land.” (Ky, 9 years old)

"A bike park at Bob Pettitt would give us more options of places to ride and mean it will be less busy at Spring Creek and less dangerous." (Harry, 12 years old)

Discussions

  • Young local riders, with the support of representatives from the Surf Coast Mountain Bike Club and Anglesea Bike Park Committee, have created a design of an expanded bike park. The footprint of the new design will not expand to the west (towards the performance stage) but will expand to the south (towards the road) close to the existing barriers, approximately doubling in size to become a greatly improved facility.

  • Rider-built jumps at Bob Pettitt reserve have been an issue over the past few years, primarily due to the existing bike park not meeting the needs of young riders. Council have approved a project and allocated funding to design and build a new layout to provide an interesting, challenging and fun facility that will encourage use and minimise the building of jumps in other areas of the reserve.

  • The project will include the planting of eucalyptus trees between the timber barriers and the bike park to partially screen the bike park from the south. We will also undertake eucalyptus tree plantings and minor landscaping to provide an aesthetically pleasing separation between the bike park and the performance stage and viewing area. Although the project will expand the bike park, we believe that it will provide a much improved and better looking facility than what exists now, and planting and landscaping works will enhance the visual amenity of the area. A pathway will be constructed to connect the skate park and playground to the performance stage area/kinder to the north of the bike park to also improve the access and amenity within the reserve.

  • Further to the project outcomes, the area in the south west corner of the reserve with existing rider-built jumps will be further rehabilitated with grass and plantings. Please see the site layout plan which includes details on these works.

View the design

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A message from the Surf Coast MTB Club

"The Surf Coast Mountain Bike Club fully supports the Surf Coast Shire’s project to expand the bike park at Bob Pettitt Reserve. Local bike riders are looking for a riding facility in their local area that will give them an exciting and challenging experience. We believe that the proposed bike park will have many positive benefits for the young and the young at heart in our area".

 

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