The Evocities MTB Series, supported by Fairfax Media, was officially launched in Orange yesterday but the Dubbo MTB Club held their own launch at the Macquarie Street Rotunda as anticipation builds for next year's seven-race series.

The series is contested in seven different towns and cities across the state with the first race at Orange next February and while there is still a wait, Dubbo MTB Club member Lynton Auld said the local club can't wait to host a race on July 12.

"It's the richest mountain bike series ever in Australia and we'll be attracting the cream of mountain biking to Dubbo and anybody who wants to go out and see what people can achieve on a mountain bike, this is the opportunity," he said.

"We could well be getting world champions of endurance racing, Jason English is a five-time consecutive world champion and we could get the Trek Factory racing team and others so the opportunities are fantastic."

The sport of mountain bike riding has been on the grow in Dubbo in recent years with events like the Beni Spring Spin attracting more and more competitors and with the Evocities Series expected to attract over 4000 competitors across all events, Auld can't wait for the opportunity to show off local riders and facilities.

"We've certainly got some of the better trails in the state and it's going to be great to show them off to people from across NSW and the country and hopefully encourage more people to get out there on the tracks," he said.

"We've got a small cross country trail in Dubbo at Mugga Hill, we've got close to 40km of trail at Geurie and we've got downhill tracks at Wellington so the club is doing really well and in terms of numbers we had 35 people ride on Wednesday night at the first of the mid week races at Mugga Hill, we've got 28 races across the calender so this is all a chance for us to grow bigger and better."

Following on from the first Evocities race at Orange next year, the series also includes races at Albury on March 14, Wylde MTB Park in Western Sydney on April 12, Bathurst on May 31, Dubbo on July 12, Tamworth on August 8 before the series finale to be held in Wagga Wagga on September 6.

There will be over $80,000 in prize money up for grabs, making it easily the biggest event of it's kind in Australia, and Auld believes it is a great way to build the sport up while also giving local riders the chance to compete against some of the biggest names in the sport.

"It lets the metropolitan riders know what is out here in these regions, they tend to congregate around Sydney and on coastal trails so it's going to be great to drag them out this way and show them what we've got," he said.

"We've got some pretty gun riders around town, some of the best amateur riders in the country, so for them to have a chance to push themselves and test themselves against hopefully some world champions is just going to be amazing."