My local trail group (Durango), yours?

Craig Brossman said:

While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and involved in
their local advocacy organizations, I thought it might be useful to
have
a thread which announces your local group.
Newbies and lurkers may not be aware of groups their area, I don't
think any of us would turn down additional active members.

In Durango one organization is Trails 2000, run by Bill Manning. There
are others with more specific tasks like Colorado Trail work.
Bill is a personal friend, but independent of that, he does a
wonderful job prompting new trails, maintaining trails, and keeping
up with local issues where trails may be involved, or possibly
planned. He is an advocate for bikers, hikers and horse people and is
currently involved
in planning a bike path from Bayfield to Durango.

I don't want to step on any toes, but I have recently met some guys
from Cortez/Dolores starting up the Kokopelli Trail Group. I don't
have a lot of info, but the bike shop in town (by a similar name)
will have more info.

Support your local group!!!

My local group is the Jersey Action Riders (www.jerseyactionriders.org) run
by Jay Jones. We are active in trail maintenance and advicacy around the
area including Wissahickon Park in Philadelphia, PA. We partner will other
trail groups for maintenance at Mercer County Park and Fair Hill, NRMA. Jay
is also our rep for JORBA (Jersey Off Road Bicycle Association) and IMBA.
JAR is instrumental in bringing the IMBA/Subaru Trail Care team to this
area.

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Quoted message said:

While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and involved in
their local advocacy organizations, I thought it might be useful to have
a thread which announces your local group.
Newbies and lurkers may not be aware of groups their area, I don't think
any of us would turn down additional active members.

Concerned Long Island Mountain Bicyclists (CLIMB):
http://www.climbonline.org

Vision MTB, a local mtb community:
http://www.visionmtb.com

Jim is the trail steward for the GreenBelt Trail. We do our share of trail
work on our own and sometimes with work parties.

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

Craig Brossman said:

Support your local group!!!

I help out with two different trails, neither of which I can ride on.
It's still a great way to meet people, share a common interest in the
sport, and learn new things though.

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Craig Brossman said:

While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and involved in
their local advocacy organizations, I thought it might be useful to have
a thread which announces your local group.
Newbies and lurkers may not be aware of groups their area, I don't think
any of us would turn down additional active members.

In Durango one organization is Trails 2000, run by Bill Manning. There
are others with more specific tasks like Colorado Trail work.
Bill is a personal friend, but independent of that, he does a wonderful
job prompting new trails, maintaining trails, and keeping up with local
issues where trails may be involved, or possibly planned. He is an
advocate for bikers, hikers and horse people and is currently involved
in planning a bike path from Bayfield to Durango.

I don't want to step on any toes, but I have recently met some guys from
Cortez/Dolores starting up the Kokopelli Trail Group. I don't have a lot
of info, but the bike shop in town (by a similar name) will have more info.

Support your local group!!!

In case Tom Purvis is out riding rather than cleaning house (like me)
http://www.arkansasvalley.net/cycling/club/
Tom or me can get you hooked in.

Shawn

In the Boulder, CO area there's the Boulder Offroad Alliance. They do
group rides, trail building efforts, and work the political scene to try
to keep the mountain in mountain biking. I've paid my dues but haven't
yet joined in any of the activities.

Their website:

http://www.boa-mtb.org/

--
monique

Monique Y. Mudama said:

In the Boulder, CO area there's the Boulder Offroad Alliance. They do
group rides, trail building efforts, and work the political scene to
try to keep the mountain in mountain biking. I've paid my dues but
haven't yet joined in any of the activities.

Their website:

http://www.boa-mtb.org/

nothing going on around here. There's no mountain biking club at all.
There are some clubs that have mtb as a facet of one of many activities.
The womens' bike club I belong to is very road heavy, and I have been
informed that advocacy/issues and politics is not part of the program.

The one guy who is the Fat Tire association has brought the IMBA trail care
crew into town, that was a lot of fun to go help out.

Penny

pas said:

Monique Y. Mudama said:

In the Boulder, CO area there's the Boulder Offroad Alliance. They
do group rides, trail building efforts, and work the political scene
to try to keep the mountain in mountain biking. I've paid my dues
but haven't yet joined in any of the activities.

Their website:

http://www.boa-mtb.org/

nothing going on around here. There's no mountain biking club at all.
There are some clubs that have mtb as a facet of one of many
activities. The womens' bike club I belong to is very road heavy, and
I have been informed that advocacy/issues and politics is not part of
the program.

The one guy who is the Fat Tire association has brought the IMBA
trail care crew into town, that was a lot of fun to go help out.

Penny

Perfect opportunity for you to start a group. IMBA can help you get
started. They have several programs and fact sheets available for starting
a MTB group.

--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws

I don' agree with the politics of this group, especially from one
particular board member in Montrose. Political BS aside, they
organize most of the trail work in the area. The trail
maintenance/building crews around here are a separate entity that is
headed up by someone who rides. That makes attending organized
trailwork a lot easier to do.

http://www.copmoba.com/

JD

Craig Brossman said:

While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and involved in
their local advocacy organizations, I thought it might be useful to
have
a thread which announces your local group.
Newbies and lurkers may not be aware of groups their area, I don't
think any of us would turn down additional active members.

In Durango one organization is Trails 2000, run by Bill Manning. There
are others with more specific tasks like Colorado Trail work.
Bill is a personal friend, but independent of that, he does a
wonderful job prompting new trails, maintaining trails, and keeping
up with local issues where trails may be involved, or possibly
planned. He is an advocate for bikers, hikers and horse people and is
currently involved
in planning a bike path from Bayfield to Durango.

I don't want to step on any toes, but I have recently met some guys
from Cortez/Dolores starting up the Kokopelli Trail Group. I don't
have a lot of info, but the bike shop in town (by a similar name)
will have more info.

Support your local group!!!

Word.

www.evma.org

Tom

Shawn Curry said:

Craig Brossman said:

In Durango one organization is Trails 2000, run by Bill Manning.

Trails 2000 is a wonderful organization. What Durango has achieved
in terms of new singletrack trail miles in the last 5 years, thanks
entirely to Trails 2000, is nothing short of miraculous. I read a
recent Denver Post article about Bill Manning. He should be cannonized
by the Church of the Rotating Rubber. It would be an honor to volunteer
for such a great organization.

Quoted message said:

In case Tom Purvis is out riding rather than cleaning house (like me)
http://www.arkansasvalley.net/cycling/club/

The Arkansas Valley Cycling Club is just getting momentum. There's
going to be a BLM-driven Travel Management Plan gearing up next year
around here. We're trying to be prepared to participate in that.
Lots of our close-in all-season riding terrain is on BLM. The
Forest Service may participate in the TMP here, since we have
lots of "user-created trails" that span USFS and BLM land. We're
hoping to get as many of the good trails as possible blessed, and
lay the groundwork for developing a trail system. But right now
our key goal is to become known as good guys in the local community.

Recently we've had a crisis where 4-wheelers have started riding
illegally on sections of our Rainbow Trail that are strictly 2-wheel
legal. Motorcycles are allowed, and have been since the western parts
of the Rainbow were built. And cyclists get along fine with them here
for the most part. But the 4-wheelers are running amok around here.
They're cutting new trails all over the southern rockies, and
appropriating singletrack to be made into little roads. The Arkansas
Valley Cycling Club has been trying to get things done to choke and
re-sign some of the areas. Enforcement is so sparse, very discouraging.
The club has offered to do a special volunteer effort to choke and
reclaim the trail, but it's hard to get clearance even to do that.

Anybody who has questions about the AVCC should go to the site contacts
page (http://www.arkansasvalley.net/cycling/club/contact.html) and
drop us a line.
--
Tom Purvis
Salida, CO - http://www.arkansasvalley.net/tpurvis/

Quoted message said:

While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and involved in
their local advocacy organizations, I thought it might be useful to have
a thread which announces your local group.

The Trails 2000 gang has done a great job in Durango. Those maps along the
trail are fantastic (rode there last Oct)

Our local club is the Pensacola Off-Road Cyclists, or PORC ( www.porc.org )
We are a group of about 50 riders and are mainly involved in trail
maintenance. Our new jersey is pretty sweet too! (
http://porc.org/jersey/jersey.jpg )

Scott

Tom Purvis said:

Trails 2000 is a wonderful organization. What Durango has achieved
in terms of new singletrack trail miles in the last 5 years, thanks
entirely to Trails 2000, is nothing short of miraculous. I read a
recent Denver Post article about Bill Manning. He should be cannonized
by the Church of the Rotating Rubber. It would be an honor to volunteer
for such a great organization.

I'm talking to him even as I read this. He really is a super guy, I
don't always like the fact that he removes rocks from trails, but he has
his reasons, and there are still plenty of technical trails in the area.

It is interesting to note that his background, before taking over Trails
2000, was with the oil and gas industry in Denver. He told me that one
day he decided he needed something more rewarding and useful to do.

--
Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado
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Craig Brossman said:

While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and involved in
their local advocacy organizations, I thought it might be useful to have
a thread which announces your local group.

Portland, Oregon: Portland United Mountain Peddlers (PUMP,
www.pumpclub.org). They host massive group rides 3-4 times a week, as well
as trail maintenance. I've joined in on the trail work, but I avoid the
group rides..I'm more of a "Portland Independent Mountain Peddler".

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On 2004-06-11, scott g penned:

Quoted message said:

Our new jersey is pretty sweet
too! ( http://porc.org/jersey/jersey.jpg )

Oooh. Me like.

--
monique

Monique Y. Mudama said:

On 2004-06-11, scott g penned:

Quoted message said:

Our new jersey is pretty sweet
too! ( http://porc.org/jersey/jersey.jpg )

Oooh. Me like.

"alpine" in Florida?

BB said:

Craig Brossman said:

While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and involved in
their local advocacy organizations, I thought it might be useful to have
a thread which announces your local group.

Portland, Oregon: Portland United Mountain Peddlers (PUMP,
www.pumpclub.org). They host massive group rides 3-4 times a week, as well
as trail maintenance. I've joined in on the trail work, but I avoid the
group rides..I'm more of a "Portland Independent Mountain Peddler".

That's the Portland United Mountain PEDALERS, Blaine. The Peddlers are
a different group of people. They prefer the chainsaws to chainrings.

miles

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Craig Brossman said:

While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and involved in
their local advocacy organizations, I thought it might be useful to have
a thread which announces your local group.

Portland, Oregon: Portland United Mountain Peddlers (PUMP,
www.pumpclub.org). They host massive group rides 3-4 times a week, as well
as trail maintenance. I've joined in on the trail work, but I avoid the
group rides..I'm more of a "Portland Independent Mountain Peddler".

heheh, lots of nice chrome and gold bits on your MTB?

Steve.

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"alpine" in Florida?

Yea, I've wondered about that too. They are a great shop, but perhaps
"All-Pine" would be a bit more fitting.

Western Washington: http://www.bbtc.org/home/index.php and
http://www.stmcc.org/