Lynskey Performance Designs has teamed up with SORBA-Chattanooga in an effort to encourage more local mountain bikers to volunteer to perform work on our local trails. To encourage volunteer trail work Lynskey Performance Designs will be providing one lucky trail volunteer with a new stock titanium mountain bike frame.
Lynskey Performance Designs test their new mountain bike designs on the local Chattanooga trails that SORBA-Chattanooga helped construct and …

The Trek Store of Chattanooga has been a huge supporter of SORBA-Chattanooga since first opening its doors, and their support continues.
Currently the Chattanooga Trek Store is offering a free pint glass to anyone who goes into the shop and signs up for a one year membership with SORBA-CHattanooga.   They also state that, “if you ask very nicely we may have something to put in that glass.”
So if you are not a SORBA-Chattanooga member, there …

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The Lyndhurst Foundation has awarded SORBA-Chattanooga a $15,000 grant to expand trails in the greater Chattanooga area.
The grant directs $10,000 be spent on completing a portion of the connector trail between Lula Lake Land Trust to Cloudland Canyon State Park. SORBA-Chattanooga will move forward with the machine work on this section this month, with the goal of completing this section in the next 60 days.
Pursuant to the grant, the remaining …

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 …

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 …

Rick Wood, director of the Chattanooga office of the Trust for Public Land announced that Stringer’s Ridge has been saved from future development with the donation of a conservation easement by the current property owner. The historic land, which also helps give Chattanooga it’s natural and ridge-lined frame, can never be developed, according to the terms of the easement.
SORBA-Chattanooga has partnered with the Trust for Public Land and other outdoor organizations to help …

Park Manager Bobby Wilson holds one of two new Trek Mountain Bikes gifted to the park. (From R to L) Lula Lake Land Trust (LLLT) Board Member Bobby Davenport, LLLT property manager Walt Hodges, SORBA-Chattanooga President Jeffrey Schaarschmidt, Park Manager Bobby Wilson, Master Trail Designer Barry Smith, and LLLT Board Member Mike Pollock.

On Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 2 p.m., Cloudland Canyon State Park was gifted two mountain bikes by the Lula Lake Land Trust, …

SORBA-Chattanooga officially kicked off its 2010 fund raising campaign with Wine For The Climb, a wine and cheese event held on January 14 at the Outdoor Chattanooga building.
The event drew 150 people raising approximately $9,000 for the trail expansion project, in ticket sales, donations, and a silent auction of a piece of artwork created by artist Celeste Sneed.  This amount represents about 17% of the funds necessary to fully complete the Raccoon Mountain trail expansion.
When …

SORBA-Chattanooga reached an agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to host weekly night rides on Raccoon Mountain.
“SORBA-Chattanooga’s has always maintained a positive relationship with TVA, and they view mountain bikers as a responsible user group,” according to Jeffrey S. Schaarschmidt, SORBA-Chattanooga’s president.  “This was key in obtaining approval to host Thursday night rides at the facility.”
The rides will take place every Thursday night throughout the winter, weather permitting.  The ride will depart from the …