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The FATS trail system in South Carolina is officially closed due to the shutdown of the United States Federal Government, and other trail systems are likely closed as well.

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IMBA's new policy is supportive of electric mountain bikes on non-motorized trails, as long as land managers and local riders are OK with it first.

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In an unprecedented move, Marin County, California, has banned all bicycles county-wide. Marin has long been known as the most hostile municipality with regard to mountain biking, having effectively wiped mountain biking off its birthplace on Mount Tamalpais, and now that anti-bike sentiment has spread throughout the county to include fire roads, paved roads, and …

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For years, receiving an IMBA Epic designation for your local trail or trail system was a badge of honor. A right of passage. If your trail was labeled “epic” by IMBA, you had officially made it. The application process to become an Epic trail was pretty democratic, with an annual Epic nomination process that was …

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In what is becoming a depressingly-common phenomenon, yet more access to classic mountain biking trails is threatened by the potential creation of another new Wilderness area. After upwards of a thousand miles lost in Montana, Idaho and New Mexico, the newly-proposed Crater Lake Wilderness Area in Oregon has the potential to be the greatest loss …

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