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bears, hawaii, imba, indoor bike parks, Mountain Bike Podcast, portal trail, stc - January 28, 2016

Podcast: Indoor Bike Parks, STC vs. IMBA, Bear Charges Biker

photo: jtorlando25 In this episode, Aaron and I talk about indoor bike parks, the newest member of the STC’s board, and our favorite MTB videos shared this week.

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Former IMBA Chair Releases Scathing Letter Denouncing IMBA in Favor of the STC

Last week we received word that John Bliss, former chair of the IMBA board of directors, had joined the Sustainable Trails Coalition. And now we know why: he is thoroughly disillusioned with IMBA’s approach. As Bliss says below, “At 28 years old, IMBA is increasingly bureaucratic; STC isn’t. Bureaucracies are characterized by inertness, slowness to action, …

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Former IMBA Chair John Bliss Joins Sustainable Trails Coalition Board

The Sustainable Trails Coalition (STC) is adding former IMBA board president John Bliss to its own board of directors ahead of the group’s proposed legislation regarding the ban on bicycles in wilderness. Read the full press release below. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Boulder, Colo. – January 21, 2016 – Sustainable Trails Coalition (STC) is pleased to announce the addition …

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Hundreds of Miles of the Best MTB Trails in Western North Carolina Are Being Evaluated as Wilderness

We’ve received several emails from IMBA urging mountain bikers to respond to the USFS’s request for comments regarding “Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests Potential Wilderness Inventory.” From the initial emails, it sounded like IMBA wanted riders to comment regarding the simple inventorying of land–but they didn’t really explain what all the hubbub was about, and which trails could …

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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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