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Shepparton BMX Track Upgrades
Audio: Music playing.
Vision: Aerial view of BMX Track and surrounding area. View of race start-line and riders. Close-up of BMX track and start of race and riders competing.
Anthony Nicolaci - Manager, Economic Development, Greater Shepparton City Council
This is going to be an awesome project to benefit our community in Greater Shepparton. It’s going to be firstly for our Shepparton BMX Club, it’s going to allow more access, more opportunities to build our club membership, get more people riding bikes and being healthy and fit, and have a lot of fun at the same time, and it’s also going to benefit with our projects we’ve done at the adjacent velodrome, and building more capacity
Vision: Aerial view of the velodrome at night under lights.
Anthony Nicolaci
And, it’s also going to benefit with our projects we’ve done at the adjacent velodrome, and building more capacity to race and train at night to also support major events.
Vision: View of young rider riding, and close-up view of bike being adjusted.
Anthony Nicolaci
And, really allow more opportunities to get kids on bikes which is really important in our community.
Vision: Aerial view of BMX track and surrounding area and bike riders racing.
Text: The new facilities were showcased at the recent AusCycling BMX National Series, bringing over 700 riders.
Vision: View of bike riders getting ready to race. Slow motion photography of riders racing and jumping on the BMX track. View of spectators.
Text: And over 2000 visitors.
Vision: View of bikes racing and close-up of track. Close-up view of the bike track.
Ben Fitzsimmons - Co-President, Shepparton BMX Club
With these new facilities we are seeing a lot more riders venture out this way. We’re getting a lot from WA, Queensland, they’re hearing about all these new upgrades and the facilities that we’ve got and it’s world-class, so they want to come and ride it.
Vision: View of the clubhouse and bike track. View of bike riders.
Ben Fitzsimmons
With all these great facilities that we’ve just upgraded, we are hoping to progress our riders to state level, national level, world level, hopefully bring some world champions.
Vision: Photography of bike riders on the track. View of bikes racing. View of velodrome lit up at night.
Brett Lancaster OAM - President, Shepparton Cycling Club
What it does is it allows us to host events at a cheaper rate, not having to hire other lights. At many events during the year it makes it a lot easier and it’s a lot more cost-effective with the LED lights that we have in place now. So we can run lights without having to think about power bills.
Vision: View of track from a bike. View of a bike riders riding the track.
Hunter Fitzsimmons - BMX Rider
It’s pretty amazing, there’s heaps of races and everything here, always something going on down at the track, with heaps of kids out here getting on the bikes, having fun and just enjoying what we have here down at Shepp.
Vision: View of a race in progress and riders waving. View of Shepparton BMX Club finish line sign.
Text: The Shepparton BMX Track and Cycling Precinct upgrades were made possible through the Victorian Government’s Regional Sports Infrastructure Program.
[Victoria State Government. Greater Shepparton. Authorised by the Victorian Government, Melbourne]
