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Advocacy, news, stc, sustainable trails coalition, wilderness - December 8, 2015

NEMBA Writes Open Letter to IMBA Urging them to Support the STC

The controversy surrounding the Sustainable Trails Coalition and their goal of getting mountain bikes into wilderness areas is heating up for round two, with articles and editorials dropping in many publications, including Bike Magazine and Outside Online. I personally think many people initially wrote the STC’s efforts off as a wild shot in the dark, but following the news that …

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Podcast: Illegal-ish Mountain Bike Trails

In this episode we talk about illegal-ish mountain bike trails, or as Greg wanted to call it, “50 Shades of Gray Trails.” We’ll define the concept of gray trails and talk about some of the issues surrounding building and using unauthorized mountain bike trails.

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Advocacy Alert: Wilderness or Bikes? The Debate Continues in Pennsylvania

For as long as there have been mountain bikers, there have been those who oppose their use of trails, claiming that they cause damage to wilderness and a disruptive environment for other trail users. In the 517,000-acre Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania, a usage debate is at hand. The proposed Tracy Ridge Wilderness would inherently …

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Video: How To Maintain And Build Mountain Bike Trails

Maintaining existing trails and building new ones should be done as a group effort, on land where it is legal for you to do so. Why not find out if your local trail centre has volunteering days? Mountain biking as a sport would really struggle without well-maintained trails and new trails being built. Once you …

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Advocacy, e-bikes, emtb, imba, survey, Trails - October 31, 2015

Take the IMBA eMTB Survey

IMBA is taking a survey of mountain bikers to “guide our research into the potential social and environmental impacts related to eMTBs.” The survey looks to be pretty quick and easy and you can take it here. More context from IMBA: Electric mountain bikes, also called eMTBs, are a rapidly growing component of the bicycle …

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