A week or so ago club members had a shiney new copy  of the New Zealand Endurance Magazine mailed out to them. At least, those of us lucky/fast enough to get our contact details  into the comittee.  New Zealand Endurance is the official magazine of BikeNZ, a national club that we are affliated to though our membership to MTBNZ.

Recently MTBNZ has had held their AGM and we have copy of their yearly report and minutes of the AGM for your perusal. For those of you with little time, the salient points are highlighted in this article.

The Annual Report for the 2007-2008 Year and Minutes of this years AGM are available from the Downloads section of this Website.

But for a quick round up of the contents the following has been quickly summarised.

AGM Minutes

• Various changes to the constitution.
• Changes to the Club affliation process.
• New Mandatory rules for Down Hill saftey equipment.
• Technical/Coach Licenses are now free.
• Life membership granted to John Mote.
• Election of a new Comittee

New MTBNZ Comittee Members

President: Helena Parsons
Participation/Club Development: Jeff Carter
Profile: Hamish Seaton
Performance: Chris Mildon
Capability: Jeremy Christmas
Advocacy/Access: Ric Balfour
Resources: Ron Mackersy
Events: Greg Leov

Annual 2007-2008 Report

• MTBNZ will be moving away from BikeNZ to a more Autonomous position.
• A round up of the High performance development program.
• Feed back on the organisation of Events and UCI nationals
• MTBNZ is moving to organise its own coaching network after being frustrated with BikeNZ.
• Various results from Island Cup and Oceania Championship Series.