Tamworth Mountain Bikers' new adaptive track is a "win, win, win for everybody", says the club's president, Alyssa Rogan.
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The track has been officially launched, with the man behind its existence, Coffs Harbour's Hank Duchateau, among the first to test it out.
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It was Duchateau, Rogan said, who suggested some three years ago that the TMB build the track.
Rogan had been forced to "spot" him when he used TMB's "rough and ready" track prior to the adaptive trail's existence.
She said: "I'm looking at it going, 'This could be way more fun for this dude, and he could do this without a spotter if we just changed a few things.'''
Rogan said the track was for "literally everybody".
"So it doesn't matter if it's your first ride ever, it doesn't matter if you're an elite rider, it doesn't matter if you've got three wheels on your bike: it's a trail that offers the opportunity for fun for every person."
Rogan also said that it was a "sustainable" way to build a track.
"We really struggle in the drought to build new tracks, because the tracks just crumbled: they don't bed in."
This track, she continued, "will see us through the next drought".
