2004 Kona/IMBA Freeride Grants Awarded

For Immediate Release
04-15-04
Contact: Brandon Dwight, IMBA grassroots coordinator

303-545-9011

Thanks to support from Kona Bicycles, five IMBA clubs will receive $500 cash grants to help create new freeriding, downhilling, and dirt jumping opportunities. More than 30 IMBA clubs applied for a grant.

Funding for the program comes from Kona and the Kona/IMBA Bowling Party, an annual Las Vegas fundraiser held during Interbike, the bicycle industry trade show. The program's goal is to support the development of freeriding opportunities on public land. Grants will be used for a variety of purposes, including gaining land manager approval, addressing liability concerns, trail and stunt construction and freeride organization building.

The 2004 winners are:

Friends of Breckenridge, Breckenridge, Colorado - The Friends of Breckenridge will use grant money to help create Four O¹clock Freeride Woods, a beginner and intermediate freeride trail and stunt area. For more info contact Danica Rice:

Ocala Mountain Bike Association, Tavares, Florida - The Ocala Mountain Bike Association plans to build wooden stunts, including an elevated bridge, two skinnies and a transition ramp, and a dirt jumping area within the Santos Trail System located on the Cross Florida Greenway. For more info visit www.omba.org

South Island Mountain Bike Society, North Saanich, British Columbia - The South Island Mountain Bike Society will use funds to build the first dirt jump park in the Victoria, British Columbia area. The project was initiated in 2002 by two young dirt jumpers and has gained full support from the North Saanich city council. For more info visit www.simbs.com

Peoria Area Mountain Bikers, Peoria, Illinois - Kona grant money will be used by the Peoria Area Mountain Bikers to create a bicycle skills course with jumps and berms at the Farmdale Reservoir Recreation Area. The course is for mountain bikers to improve technical skills in a controlled easily accessible area. For more info visit www.pambamtb.org

Longwood University Cycling Club, Farmville, Virginia - The Longwood University Cycling Club will use funds to build freeride specific, ³North Shore² style structures on a two-mile trail just outside town. Students from a local school for troubled youth will work with the club to complete work on the project. For more info email

The Whatcom Independent Mountain Pedalers (WHIMPs) of Bellingham, Washington were chosen to receive a grant, but due to diligent fund raising efforts the WHIMPs secured funding from a private donor and opted to forgo the grant making it available to another worthy club.

Other outstanding freeride projects were submitted by the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association, the Keweenaw Trekkers and the Southwest Idaho Mountain Bicycling Association.

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	2004 Kona/IMBA Freeride Grants Awarded For Immediate Release 04-15-04 Contact: Brandon Dwight, IMBA grassroots coordinator 303-545-9011 Thanks to support from Kona Bicycles, five IMBA clubs will receive $500 cash grants to help create new freeriding, downhilling, and dirt jumping opportunities. More than 30 IMBA clubs applied for a grant. Funding for the program comes from Kona and the Kona/IMBA Bowling Party, an annual Las Vegas fundraiser held during Interbike, the bicycle industry trade show. The program's goal is to support the development of freeriding opportunities on public land. Grants will be used for a variety of purposes, including gaining land manager approval, addressing liability concerns, trail and stunt construction and freeride organization building. The 2004 winners are: Friends of Breckenridge, Breckenridge, Colorado - The Friends of Breckenridge will use grant money to help create Four O¹clock Freeride Woods, a beginner and intermediate freeride trail and stunt area. For more info contact Danica Rice: Ocala Mountain Bike Association, Tavares, Florida - The Ocala Mountain Bike Association plans to build wooden stunts, including an elevated bridge, two skinnies and a transition ramp, and a dirt jumping area within the Santos Trail System located on the Cross Florida Greenway. For more info visit www.omba.org South Island Mountain Bike Society, North Saanich, British Columbia - The South Island Mountain Bike Society will use funds to build the first dirt jump park in the Victoria, British Columbia area. The project was initiated in 2002 by two young dirt jumpers and has gained full support from the North Saanich city council. For more info visit www.simbs.com Peoria Area Mountain Bikers, Peoria, Illinois - Kona grant money will be used by the Peoria Area Mountain Bikers to create a bicycle skills course with jumps and berms at the Farmdale Reservoir Recreation Area. The course is for mountain bikers to improve technical skills in a controlled easily accessible area. For more info visit www.pambamtb.org Longwood University Cycling Club, Farmville, Virginia - The Longwood University Cycling Club will use funds to build freeride specific, ³North Shore² style structures on a two-mile trail just outside town. Students from a local school for troubled youth will work with the club to complete work on the project. For more info email The Whatcom Independent Mountain Pedalers (WHIMPs) of Bellingham, Washington were chosen to receive a grant, but due to diligent fund raising efforts the WHIMPs secured funding from a private donor and opted to forgo the grant making it available to another worthy club. Other outstanding freeride projects were submitted by the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association, the Keweenaw Trekkers and the Southwest Idaho Mountain Bicycling Association.


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