Cycling pros give the shirts off their back to New England trails

IMBA Trail News
Volume 12, Number 2
May 1999

The New England Mountain Bike Association held a series of internet auctions of the autographed personal race jerseys from the likes of Juli Furtado, Tinker Juarez, Susan DeMattei, John Tomac, Ruthie Matthes, Ned Overend, Missy Giove and Team Specialized. The nine jerseys were auctioned separately and brought in nearly $2500.

Thousands of people visited NEMBA's auction sites, and the bidding was sometimes fast and furious. The top bidders came not only from New England but from as far away as Alberta Canada, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Detroit. Ned Overend's jersey sold for the most ($450), with Juli Furtado's coming in a close second! By taking the shirts off their back, all the pros showed how much they care about mountain biking and land access.