Pack your bikes and bags and head north to begin Winter and ride in “The Sunny 80”, a weekend away promising 80km of fun riding on epic trails, set to the backdrop of iconic golden beaches and weather that really is beautiful one day, perfect the next.  Don’t forget to bring a hat and sunscreen!

Our 2025 event will begin with a new location for the Prelude Stage at the glorious Ferny Forest MTB Trails, located on the southern banks of Ewen Maddock Dam. This short time trial is not to be missed as it sets your handicap for the weekend stages and also makes for a great start to the weekend before you head into Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast for our Welcome Function at Moffat Beach Brewing Co.

Stage 1 on Saturday morning will again start and finish from Hidden Valley at Nambour, right on the perimeter of the incredible trail network of Parklands, which features over 30km of single track, passionately maintained by the awesome crew at Bushrangers MTB Club. The stage design will once again features the best of Parklands’ single trail, broken up by sections of fire road to give riders a break and the chance to overtake. We have continued to make revisions from last years course to make it a bit easier and even more fun…  If you are only planning to do one day, this is definitely the stage to pick!

Stage 2 will be this year be revamped and we plan to reveal details in early 2025.  As with all of the stages for The Sunny 80 all courses are pending approval and this new stage we are designing is still a work in progress.  What we can say is the new stage is planned to be one full course and we expect it to compliment the other two stages to make the whole Sunny 80 event even better this coming year!

All three stages across the weekend will combine to be around 80km in total, making it a good test but achievable for the average rider.  Full course details will be released for all stages around 4-6 weeks prior to each event.  Continue to monitor our social channels for regular updates and sign up for our emails.