That's right our Eastern VA MTB friends are looking to expand some trails and everyone loves fresh single track so please scoot over there and lend them a hand in making this a reality.
Would you like more trails in Chesapeake, VA?
Friday, December 30, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
The New Riverfront Concept Plan video
We want to keep you up to date with whats going on...Down By the River..
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Another great one
If you've been living under a rock then the awesome video advocacy powers of one Scott Wootten may not sound familiar but if you haven’t then you probably already expect another great video to be dropping soon. Well the wait is over.
Even if you’ve never heard of Scott Wootten or seen any of his videos please check this out.
Great job Scott. I hope some of the RaMORE members can find time to come out and help with the building and re-routing of this incredible trail.
Even if you’ve never heard of Scott Wootten or seen any of his videos please check this out.
DCR RTP SVBC grant announcement video on Narrowback & Wild Oak Trail from Scott Wootten on Vimeo.
Great job Scott. I hope some of the RaMORE members can find time to come out and help with the building and re-routing of this incredible trail.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Saturday 10/22/11 Trail work - Buttermilk
Good Evening Members,
Trail work season is back in full swing. This Saturday (10/22/11) Nathan and the Boys (and hopefully we will see you!) will be meeting up at the 22nd Street Parking lot (22nd St. & Riverside Dr.) at 9am to begin work on a reroute section by the 22nd St. staircase.
We hope that you enjoyed our October member meeting last night at Legends. Remember a little Saturday morning trail work will burn off those extra carbs/calories that you “may” have consumed.
We suggest stopping by Crossroads Coffee & Ice cream on your way to trail work to pick up a nice hot cup of Saturday morning motivation.
See you guys & girls there.
The RaMORE Board
Trail work season is back in full swing. This Saturday (10/22/11) Nathan and the Boys (and hopefully we will see you!) will be meeting up at the 22nd Street Parking lot (22nd St. & Riverside Dr.) at 9am to begin work on a reroute section by the 22nd St. staircase.
We hope that you enjoyed our October member meeting last night at Legends. Remember a little Saturday morning trail work will burn off those extra carbs/calories that you “may” have consumed.
We suggest stopping by Crossroads Coffee & Ice cream on your way to trail work to pick up a nice hot cup of Saturday morning motivation.
See you guys & girls there.
The RaMORE Board
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Join RaMORE, REI & The JRPS crew for National Public Lands Day
I wanted to take a second to pass along some info about our partnership with REI & the James River Park System for National Public Lands Day this Saturday.
Please join Richmond-MORE and REI on Saturday September 24th at 9am in the Reedy Creek parking lot. Last year we rerouted a section of the Buttermilk trail. This involved cutting in about 300 feet of new trail and reclaiming about 250 feet of trail. This year we'll be doing some lighter duty work that includes the staining and painting of some bridges along the Buttermilk Trail as well as a small repair along a set of stone steps on Buttermilk as well.
VORS series racers don't forget that you can earn series points for trail work!
REI asks that you please register for this event via their website located here. It only takes a second to sign up.
We hope to see you there in support of National Public Lands Day.
Thank You,
Richmond MORE
PS. In case of rain or unforeseen events, please check for cancellations on our website. Any cancellation notice will be posted by 8:00am on Saturday in our News section. Our website is at:www.richmond-more.org.
Here are the quick and dirty details:
Where: Meet in the Reedy Creek parking lot just off Riverside Drive near 42nd street.
When: Saturday, September 24th 2011 – From 9:00am to 1:00pm
Bring: Water, work gloves, and sturdy shoes, and a small snack. Lunch will be provided for you.
Please join Richmond-MORE and REI on Saturday September 24th at 9am in the Reedy Creek parking lot. Last year we rerouted a section of the Buttermilk trail. This involved cutting in about 300 feet of new trail and reclaiming about 250 feet of trail. This year we'll be doing some lighter duty work that includes the staining and painting of some bridges along the Buttermilk Trail as well as a small repair along a set of stone steps on Buttermilk as well.
VORS series racers don't forget that you can earn series points for trail work!
REI asks that you please register for this event via their website located here. It only takes a second to sign up.
We hope to see you there in support of National Public Lands Day.
Thank You,
Richmond MORE
PS. In case of rain or unforeseen events, please check for cancellations on our website. Any cancellation notice will be posted by 8:00am on Saturday in our News section. Our website is at:www.richmond-more.org.
Here are the quick and dirty details:
Where: Meet in the Reedy Creek parking lot just off Riverside Drive near 42nd street.
When: Saturday, September 24th 2011 – From 9:00am to 1:00pm
Bring: Water, work gloves, and sturdy shoes, and a small snack. Lunch will be provided for you.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
News to peruse
Hey Richmond MORE members here are some things that may interest you.
The Bike Code via Blue Ridge Outdoors
Dry Trails <-> Wet Trails = What you need to know
Richmond’s New Bike, Pedestrian and Trails Coordinator
Don’t forget the Anthem Moonlight ride this Saturday. We still need 5 more volunteers to help pour some tasty beer. If you can help out please email Greg “greg@proforma-gis.com” and let him know so that he can get a head count.
Also please join Cycles Ed this weekend for some Scout Camp Trail work if you can lend a hand. Sat. Aug 13th 10am. Email Cycles Ed for more info.
Have a great weekend of riding.
The Bike Code via Blue Ridge Outdoors
Dry Trails <-> Wet Trails = What you need to know
Richmond’s New Bike, Pedestrian and Trails Coordinator
Don’t forget the Anthem Moonlight ride this Saturday. We still need 5 more volunteers to help pour some tasty beer. If you can help out please email Greg “greg@proforma-gis.com” and let him know so that he can get a head count.
Also please join Cycles Ed this weekend for some Scout Camp Trail work if you can lend a hand. Sat. Aug 13th 10am. Email Cycles Ed for more info.
Have a great weekend of riding.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Mid Atlantic Regional IMBA Summit – That’s a Wrap
Several RaMORE club members and board members joined Nathan Burrell and the James River Park crew in Harrisonburg, Virginia recently to attend the IMBA Mid-Atlantic Regional Summit. Mountain bike clubs from all over the Mid-Atlantic showed up to represent their local communities of riders, trail builders and trail users.
Friday night we met up at the Court House Square and were treated to a viewing of Pedal Driven after some obligatory welcome and weekend introduction speeches. If you haven’t already seen Pedal Driven I highly recommend checking it out. It provides a very well written and entertaining insight into some of the serious problems regarding land access and relationships that we as mountain bikers are facing all over the country. Unfortunately, most riders are unaware that these problems even exist. The video does a great job of mixing trail advocacy in with some killer mountain biking footage. Think; an informative version of a New World Disorder flick and viola you have Pedal Driven.
Saturday morning Harrisonburg’s own city trails called the Hillendale Park Trails provided us a nice morning spin with adequate amounts of rocks and tight turns to wake up the senses before meeting at the Conference Center for breakfast and a day full of classroom meetings. The meetings and educational seminars covered several insightful topics that included: TCC Advocate training, Youth in Mountain Biking, a Land Manager Round Table that featured our very own Nathan Burrell
speaking as a land manager on behalf of the success of the JRPS inner city trails, Diversity Builds Strength: Women and Mountain Biking, Trail Successes and Challenges Around the Mid Atlantic, TCC Club Care, Capacity Building 101, and finally a VA State Breakout Session. All of the sessions were full of great information that we hope will help us build you a bigger better mountain bike club.
Now we all know that all work and no play just isn’t the mountain biker way. After the classroom sessions finished up we all made a beeline for the wonderful Massanutten Western Slope. The plan was a Super D race down the rocky and fast Massanutten Trails. The local mountain bike club (Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition) has put in countless hours of trail work over the past few years to make the Western Slope trails some of the sweetest trails in the area. At the base of the mountain we all chamoised up, helped ourselves to a few of the tasty drinks provided by Troges then begin the climb up the side of the mountain headed to the top. The Super D would start from the mountain top but there was some awesome single track to check out on the way up. SVBC member and SBC owner Thomas Jenkins was kind enough to lead a casual paced ride up the mountain and offer insight to the trail and its construction along the way. Having Rich Edwards of IMBA Trail Solutions (who has also contributed many hours to the design and construction of the Massanutten trails) along for the ride was icing on the cake.
Atop Massanutten mountain riders nervously lined up for the start of the Super D.
Some were on hardtails while most were on full suspension bikes.
Some were wrapped in body armor while others chose lycra.
Regardless of our bike or clothing choices when the race director called you up to the line and said “GO!” the common theme heard all way down the mountain was “Man this trail is sick!”
At the finish line Troges and Qudoba awaited hungry racers.
The “social” kept on rolling well into darkness with good times and stories being shared by all.
Sunday morning hosted several organized group rides for all levels of riders. Not everyone survived the entire weekend and make it to the Sunday rides but those who did were treated to some of the George Washington National Forrest’s finest singletrack.
We at Richmond MORE would like to thank all of our members and friends who made the trip over to Harrisonburg. We would also like to thank everyone involved in making this weekend happen. Yeah Frank Maguire that’s you! Also IMBA, The IMBA Trail Care Crew, SBC, SVBC the town of Harrisonburg and everyone else involved.
Friday night we met up at the Court House Square and were treated to a viewing of Pedal Driven after some obligatory welcome and weekend introduction speeches. If you haven’t already seen Pedal Driven I highly recommend checking it out. It provides a very well written and entertaining insight into some of the serious problems regarding land access and relationships that we as mountain bikers are facing all over the country. Unfortunately, most riders are unaware that these problems even exist. The video does a great job of mixing trail advocacy in with some killer mountain biking footage. Think; an informative version of a New World Disorder flick and viola you have Pedal Driven.
Saturday morning Harrisonburg’s own city trails called the Hillendale Park Trails provided us a nice morning spin with adequate amounts of rocks and tight turns to wake up the senses before meeting at the Conference Center for breakfast and a day full of classroom meetings. The meetings and educational seminars covered several insightful topics that included: TCC Advocate training, Youth in Mountain Biking, a Land Manager Round Table that featured our very own Nathan Burrell
speaking as a land manager on behalf of the success of the JRPS inner city trails, Diversity Builds Strength: Women and Mountain Biking, Trail Successes and Challenges Around the Mid Atlantic, TCC Club Care, Capacity Building 101, and finally a VA State Breakout Session. All of the sessions were full of great information that we hope will help us build you a bigger better mountain bike club.
Now we all know that all work and no play just isn’t the mountain biker way. After the classroom sessions finished up we all made a beeline for the wonderful Massanutten Western Slope. The plan was a Super D race down the rocky and fast Massanutten Trails. The local mountain bike club (Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition) has put in countless hours of trail work over the past few years to make the Western Slope trails some of the sweetest trails in the area. At the base of the mountain we all chamoised up, helped ourselves to a few of the tasty drinks provided by Troges then begin the climb up the side of the mountain headed to the top. The Super D would start from the mountain top but there was some awesome single track to check out on the way up. SVBC member and SBC owner Thomas Jenkins was kind enough to lead a casual paced ride up the mountain and offer insight to the trail and its construction along the way. Having Rich Edwards of IMBA Trail Solutions (who has also contributed many hours to the design and construction of the Massanutten trails) along for the ride was icing on the cake.
Atop Massanutten mountain riders nervously lined up for the start of the Super D.
Some were on hardtails while most were on full suspension bikes.
Some were wrapped in body armor while others chose lycra.
Regardless of our bike or clothing choices when the race director called you up to the line and said “GO!” the common theme heard all way down the mountain was “Man this trail is sick!”
At the finish line Troges and Qudoba awaited hungry racers.
The “social” kept on rolling well into darkness with good times and stories being shared by all.
Sunday morning hosted several organized group rides for all levels of riders. Not everyone survived the entire weekend and make it to the Sunday rides but those who did were treated to some of the George Washington National Forrest’s finest singletrack.
We at Richmond MORE would like to thank all of our members and friends who made the trip over to Harrisonburg. We would also like to thank everyone involved in making this weekend happen. Yeah Frank Maguire that’s you! Also IMBA, The IMBA Trail Care Crew, SBC, SVBC the town of Harrisonburg and everyone else involved.
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