17 Mar 2010
Trek Store Raises $1,380 For SORBA-Chattanooga’s Trail Fund

The Trek Store’s Bicycle Industry and Cycling Advocacy Party, held as part of it 2010 Spring Classic, raised $1,380.00 for the SORBA-Chattanooga Trial Fund.
The Trek Store provided a booth for SORBA-Chattanooga to provide information about on going trial construction and maintenance projects, as well as information about mountain bike rides, socials and races the organization has scheduled.
To help raise money for the SORBA-Chattanooga Trail Fund, the Trek Store had custom pint glasses made and provide …

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18 Mar 2010
2010 National Bike Summit

Last week (March 9-11) was the National Bike Summit. It is held annually in Washington, D.C., and each year cyclists of the on and off-road variety descend on the nation’s capital to learn and practice advocacy for themselves and their bicycling brethren. This year marked my first experience with the summit, but it will most certainly not be my last.
IMBA sent me, the only purely off-road cyclist representing Tennessee, to speak about a …

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7 Mar 2010
Cheorkee National Forest’s Chainsaw Recertification Course Postponed

Due to a prescribed burn, this re-certification course has been postponed. Please see the email we received from Ranger Steve.
The chainsaw re-certification course previously schedule for March 20 at 8:30 am has been postponed.
Vols,
Sorry to be sending this out but we are canceling the Saturday Chainsaw training due to prescribed burning opportunities. We have a narrow window of parameters for burning and we need to take advantage of them when the …

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26 Feb 2010
Times Free Press Covers Bike Donations to CCSP

The Chattanooga Times Free Press recently ran a story about the mountain bikes gifted to Cloudland Canyon State Park, by the Lula Lake Land Trust and SORBA-Chattanooga, previously reported here.  Check out the new story by clicking here.