IMBA Publishes Freeride Guide with Support from Rocky Mountain Bicycles

For Immediate Release
03-25-04
Contact: Pete Webber, IMBA communications director

303-545-9011

The spring edition of IMBA's newsletter focuses entirely on freeriding and challenging trails. This growing segment of mountain biking has emerged as a major topic for land managers, riders and IMBA.

The special issue features a dozen articles, including a list of freeriding areas, IMBA's position on freeriding, a look at freeriding pros and cons, and new resources to help create freeriding areas and technical trails.

IMBA corporate member Rocky Mountain Bicycles sponsored the Freeride Guide, and an expanded freeriding section of the IMBA website containing new resources, advice, and trailbuilding techniques.

The Freeride Guide was mailed to IMBA members in mid-March. Hard copies are available by contacting and a PDF version can be downloaded from IMBA's website. The expanded freeriding section of the IMBA website is located at http://www.imba.com/resources/freeriding

IMBA's leadership role in freeriding goes well beyond publishing the Freeride Guide. Both Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crews and the fee-based IMBA Trail Solutions program have helped develop new freeriding areas, dirt jump parks, and technical trails. IMBA-affiliated clubs around the world are creating new freeriding areas as well.

Rocky Mountain Bicycles, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been a freeriding leader since the 1990s and was one of the first companies to embrace this style of riding.