IMBA Trail News

Summer 2001

Volume 14, Number 3

OPINION

• Mud On Your Race

NEWS

• News Briefs
• Mountain Bikers: Rate Your Home State
• Jenn Dice to Lead IMBA Advocacy Efforts
• Sprockids Targets Mountain Biking's Future: Kids
• IMBA Leads Successful British Columbia Access Summit
• Diversity Builds in British Columbia Cycling Community

ITN Special Report - Trail Diplomacy: The Simple Path to Mountain Biking's Future

IMBA's website contains more than 800 pages of helpful information relating to trail design, construction, maintenance and management. Visitors to imba.com also find great advice on sustaining volunteer groups and working with government officials.

But since IMBA's goal is to assure a bright future for mountain biking, perhaps our website would be equally effective if it included nothing more than hundreds of consecutive pages on which the following words appeared in huge type:

BE NICE TO THE PEOPLE YOU MEET ON THE TRAIL.

We're kidding...but not really. What happens when we meet and pass people - especially hikers and horse riders - is the most important factor in shaping trail access.

• Trail Diplomacy: The Simple Path to Mountain Biking's Future
• Interpreting the Rules
• The Trail Care Crew's Perspective
• Communication is Key
• Low Impact Riding Techniques for the X(TR) Generation

LETTERS

CLUB NEWS (USA)

• Northeast
• Southeast
• Midwest
• Rockies
• Pacific

TRAIL CARE

• Build Short Ups and Downs - An Easy Way to Toughen Trails
• Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew and Trailbuilding School Schedule - August to September 2001

CORPORATE UPDATE