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How Mountain Biking saved a tiny Tasmanian town

Five years ago the old tin-mining town of Derby was a ghost town. But a move to construct some mountain bike trails helped trigger an economic revival.  World Trail was engaged to design and construct over 80km of purpose-built trails and have delivered one of the worlds fastest-growing mountain biking destinations.

FLOW Mountain Bike Presents: Blue Derby’s New Trails – The Blue Tier & Big Chook

In only a few months, this has become one of the most hyped-up, talked-about and photographed trails in Australia. Rightly so, The Blue Tier is worth every piece of fuss. We’re referring to the freshly built 20km singletrack descent through the lushest, greenest, mossiest Tasmanian Wilderness you’ll ever see. Though it’s not only the beauty …

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FLOW Mountain Bike Presents: Blue Derby’s New Trails – Return to Sender & Flickety Sticks Upper

From green trails, darker ones grow. Derby’s latest batch of incredible singletrack adds some more serious stuff to the trail network, we dragged ourselves back to Derby to see what’s sprung up since our last amazing visit. To say that a lot of the ‘A-line’ features pushed our humble bike skills is an understatement. So we …

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EWS to Blue Derby in 2017

World Trail is pleased to announce that Australia will host an EWS round next year! April 8-9th Blue Derby, Tasmania. World Trail are designing a bunch of new descents and can’t wait for the EWS in 2017.