Mount Gravatt Mountain Race

Event Details

Time: July 2, 2011 from 7am to 1pm
Location: Mt gravatt mountain
Street: Mt gravatt outlook drive
City/Town: Brisbane
Event Type: race
Organized By: Aidan Heijnen
Latest Activity: Jul 1, 2011

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Event Description

we are planning to get the Mt Gravvat mountain road closed and have a race day we have permision from the council and are seeking approval from the pocile. We are planning to have it on the 2nd of july.

WE NEED SPONSORS.

we need sponsors to get this off the ground so if you can sponsor the even it would be gratly appreciated.

we have not set anything for sure yet we just want to know how many people would be interested in attending.

so if you would be interesed in attending please RSVP.

ANY QUESTIONS O SUGGESTIONS YOU HAVE SEND THEM TO AIDAN HEIJNEN (http://www.skateboardracing.org.au/profile/AidanHeijnen)

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Comment by Laurence Lombardi on April 6, 2011 at 18:32: race!

Comment by sammy T on April 5, 2011 at 22:47: haggy is 100% correct, id listen to him if i were yourself.

Comment by Jack on April 5, 2011 at 17:32: the track is not nearly tech enough for a freeride event to be fun. I'm personally loving the idea of racing mt gravatt, we just have to get involved and make it happen

Premium Member Comment by Matthys on April 5, 2011 at 17:14: mabey change it from a race into a freeride

that way there would be less pressure on the safety issues, and less time spent on the formatting.

Premium Member Comment by haggy on April 5, 2011 at 16:46: Alister,

I applaud your initiative. Great start on getting an event up and running. Sounds like you have made the important initial contacts - police, council and local stakeholders (the kiosk).

There are a few steps you should take immediately if you want this event to be a success.

1. Get an event team together - get three or four or five willing and serious people together to work on the event with you. This is pretty much the only way it's gonna come together in a proper fashion.

2. Make lists of everything you will need on race day, then think about how you are going to get all those things (eg, radios, hay bales, brooms, volunteers, sponsors, banners, trophies, shade tents, water)

3. Divide up responsibilities amongst your team members - ie, (a) sponsor contact, (b) community contact, eg police, council, etc, (c) volunteer contact, etc.

4. First Aid - do you need a St Johns ambo on site? For one day you can probably get this for a $500 or less donation.

5. Do you need a risk management plan? ASRA has one you can use if you need to.

6. Think about your race format. Think seriously about this, as it needs to be done properly. ASRA can provide you with excel spreadsheets for virtually every format you can think of. Eg., do you want to run an elimination tree or a round-robin format? Both have their pros and cons. If you run an elimination tree how will you seed riders? You can either (a) seed based on ASRA rankings, (b) random, or (c) use a timer.

A lot to think about? No worries, there are people here like myself who have done it all before. While I'm located in Sydney I'm happy to help as much as possible. If you'd like to talk just pm me and i'll shoot you my phone number.

Haggy

ASRA President

Comment by ruddy on April 5, 2011 at 15:31: Im a grom and i only hav a full face and pads soo is that cool to race in

Premium Member Comment by Skittles on April 5, 2011 at 8:55: This needs some work...

If you want a legit race, leathers are needed. IF you pull it all off, then people from all over Australia will come and I'm pretty sure that the pros wont want to be worrying about getting in the way of groms who can get serously hurt or killed in a racing environment on this track without proper safty gear.

You already have people like Leigh Griffiths, Leeso, Daddow, English, Wildash and even Goodtime interested...

If you just want it to be a freeride, all good, put an entry fee up and hire a bus to truck people back to the top.

If you don't own a full face helmet and pads, you certainly can not pull a shut down slide at that speed right at the end...

Sorry to start being negative, but people like Aych and Jamie have a good idea on what they are talking about.

I would be happy to help out and have sent an e-mail to Alister Mearns about it, but either make this a full professional race, or just get a group of people from brissie together and ride the hill. Either way, I will be there and so will most brissie guys.

Comment by Aidan Heijnen on April 4, 2011 at 20:28: lol, al u can answer this :S

Comment by Aych on April 4, 2011 at 19:03: I have a couple of observations; by "sponsors" I gather you are talking about financial ones to cover the cost of the road, safety barriers or hay, ambos and general ancillaries and set ups that will be required by the police and council no matter who owns the road as well as advertising and media budgets. If this is the case, bearing in mind the event is less than 3 months away what are you offering your sponsors in return?

Have you any media contracts that will promote the sponsors? anyone liasing with press and publicity? or just hoping someone is going to put their hand in their pocket to have a banner up on the side of a road for 6 hours with little publicity or public awareness and under 200 spectators?

Also I would have thought, in my opinion and with some considerable years attending and holding events behind me, for a first event the safest possible rider wear would be encouraged to promote what is seen by the layman a dangerous sport.

If it happens I may well happen along, Aych

Comment by Aidan Heijnen on April 4, 2011 at 18:50: haha yea :D

yea i understand what your sayen about pads and stuff but alot of people dont have leathers and/or full face helmets and i doubt that they would buy some just for this event.