Mountain Biking is a great sport for everyone to enjoy whether your a pleasure rider, out for fitness or an avid racer and there are many riders of various skills and abilities of all ages out riding today. And one thing you can do is support your local mountain bike club and by joining the International Mountain Bike Association (IMBA). Here in the Fort Myers (Florida) area and points south we have the Florida Mud Cutters. By joining such groups you can help revitalize park funding for the Lee County Parks & Recreation and increase trail opportunities. And hey, if your reading this- then you're like me and are always looking for new single-track to ride and enjoy. Not only can you do your part local but nationally as well.
Mountain bikers have an opportunity to voice their support for a dramatic increase in National Park Service (NPS) funding. A proposed bill would appropriate the largest ever funding increase for the NPS--at least $100 million annually--and dramatically improve visitor experiences, including those on single-track.
This bill, H.R. 3094, will provide funding for a series of signature projects around the country, including those for new trails. A plan for new single-track in Big Bend National Park is one of 200 proposed projects selected from more than 6,000 applications. Supporting H.R. 3094 will improve chances for similar projects.
It takes just a few seconds with IMBA's simple online form.
Tell your friends. Ask all of your riding partners to take action.
H.R. 3094 is a crucial component of the Centennial Initiative , a 10-year plan to enhance the National Park Service for its 100th birthday in 2016. IMBA and the Outdoor Alliance strongly support this bill and associated programs that will restore the luster of our National Parks System and set the direction for the next century of park management.
Mountain biking is an ideal tool for reacquainting a new generation of Americans to their national parks. This human-powered, quiet, low-impact activity helps get more people out of their cars and exploring parks on narrow dirt trails. By expanding this use in appropriate areas, the National Park Service will help visitors form lasting bonds with our most valuable natural landscapes. As a family-friendly activity, mountain bicycling also provides a fun, exciting, appropriate way for visitors to engage in healthy exercise in National Parks.
Another way to do your part, come see me at Trek Bicycle Store of Estero (proud to be locally owned) and buy a Trek or Gary Fisher Full Suspension Mountain Bike.
Trek & Fisher Dealers are working to get people to ride their bikes and make a more bike friendly world, one mile at a time.
We all know the world has some problems; gas is expensive and cars pollute, the roads are congested and humans are getting bigger. And not in a good way.
Luckily, there is a solution to these problems. A solution that burns calories, not gas. It doesn't waste fuel sitting in traffic. Something that could even bring communities closer together.
The solution is the bicycle.
With 40% of non-work related car trips being taken being two miles or less, what would happen if more people took the short trips on their bike? What if more communities had a "Safe Routes to Schools" plan so kids could ride to school safely? What would the world be like with more bicycle friendly communities?
Imagine arriving at work fresh instead of frazzled. Parking within feet of the building! Your kids getting exercise to and from school. Better still, commuting by bike IS exercising! And there are no carbon emissions from burning calories.
We all can ride and we have only one planet. Trek and Trek dealers challenge you to join us in making the world a more bike friendly place. You can start by riding your bike. It's the greenest thing you can do to help the earth.
MADISON, WI --John Burke introduced an ambitious advocacy program last night during Trek World. Trek’s president asked retailers to participate in its program, dubbed One World, Two Wheels.
Burke said Trek will provide leadership and commitment, as well as ads, brochures, T-shirts, billboards and signage. Trek & Fisher will donate $10 for every full-suspension bike sold to IMBA, for a minimum of $600,000 over the next three years. Trek also will donate $1 per helmet to Bicycle Friendly Communities, for a minimum of $1 million over the next three years.
Burke charged all U.S dealers with helping Trek to achieve one “very important” goal: to increase U.S. trips by bike from 1 percent to 5 percent by Trek World 2017.
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