Magazine of the New England Mountain Bike Association SSingleingleTrackrackSS wwwTwww..nneemmbbaa..oorrgg AApprriill // MMaayy 22000011,, NNuummbbeerr 5555 GetGet FitFit FastFast TrainingTraining TipsTips fromfrom thethe ProsPros FollowFollow youryour HeartHeart TestingTesting thethe SantaSanta CruzCruz SuperlightSuperlight 2001 NEMBA Event Calendar Presented by MetroSports Magazine and the New England Mountain Bike Association Come ride on great trails and support good causes! There will be lots of prizes, and Harpoon will be hosting a post-Adventure party at a local pub after each event! The cost will be $10 per ride, $3 for members of the New England Mountain Bike Association and free to anyone who joins NEMBA at the event. Whole families can ride for $25! All Rides Benefit a Charity or the Trails! May 5 Lynn Woods, Lynn MA —a benefit for the David Kirby Fund May 27 Holyoke Range/Skinner State Park, Amherst MA —a benefit for the Holyoke Range/Skinner State Park June 2 Cockaponset State Forest, Chester CT —Lance Armstrong Foundation June 17 Wompatuck State Park, Hingham MA —a benefit for Wompatuck Trail Fund July 22 Freetown State Forest, Freetown MA —a benefit for the Friends of Freetown-Fall River State Forest August 5 Great Brook Farm SP, Carlisle MA —a benefit for the Friends of Great Brook Farm State Park Sept. 23 Bear Notch Ski Touring Center, Bartlett NH —a benefit for the Kennett High School Mountain Bike Team For more information, and directions to the events: www.mtbadventureseries.org 800-57-NEMBA 2 SSingleingleTTrackS April / May 2001, Number 55 NEMBA, the New England Mountain Bike Association, is a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization dedicated to promoting trail access, maintaining trails open for mountain bicyclists, and educating mountain bicyclists to use these trails sensitively and responsibly. SingleTracks is published six times a year by the New England Mountain Bike Association for the trail community, and is made possible 14 Train to Become a Better Biker by riders like you. Tom Masterson has been coaching some of the best ©SingleTracks New England racers for years. In this article, he lays Editor & Publisher: Philip Keyes out a simple but rigorous strategy to improve your Singletracks Committee: Bill Boles, Krisztina fitness and riding. By Tom Masterson. Holly, Nanyee Keyes, and Mary Tunnicliffe Executive Director: Philip Keyes Letters/Submissions: SingleTracks 16 Road training will get you fit faster PO Box 2221 Acton MA 01720 As a pro triathlete, Karen Smyers has won the Ironman in Hawaii and many of other triathlons. Voice 800.57.NEMBA Fax: 520-395-7759 Here, she shares her secrets for road training to Email: [email protected] become fitter, faster and stronger. As told to Philip Keyes Board of Directors Bill Boles, President Len Earnshaw, Vice-President 22 Testing the Santa Cruz Superlight Anne Shepard, Treasurer It’s light, strong and has mondo travel. Find out John Dudek, Secretary Rob Adair, White Mountains NEMBA why this Californian steed is gaining speed on rooty Mark Bialas, Merrimack NEMBA New England singletrack. By Mike “he-who-dies- Norman Blanchette, Merrimack NEMBA with-the-most-bikes-wins” Rowell Bill Boles, SE MA NEMBA Scott Briere, Greater Boston NEMBA Jack Chapman, EFTA Liason Bob Croston, Greater Boston NEMBA Hunt Durey, North Shore NEMBA SingleTracks welcomes submissions Jim Grimley, RI NEMBA and artwork from our literate or cre- Gray Harrison, Wachusett NEMBA ative membership. This is your forum Krisztina Holly, At Large and your magazine, so please send us Tina Hopkins, Rhode Island NEMBA Mark Jenks, White Mountains NEMBA Paper Trail stuff! Rich LaBombard, Pioneer Valley NEMBA Contribute! Got a cool story idea? Rob Macgregor, VT NEMBA Treadlines —4 Tom McCrumm, Berkshire NEMBA Happenings —12 Want to build your publishing resume? Deb McCulloch, Cape Cod & Islands NEMBA Give us a call. You can reach us at TJ Mora, VT NEMBA Just Riding Along —20 [email protected] or call 800- Jason Record, Seacoast NEMBA Chapter News —21 57-NEMBA. Alex Sokolow, CT NEMBA NEMBA Rides —31 Dan Streeter, North Shore NEMBA On the Cover: Trevor Young gets big Mitch Steinberg, Blackstone Valley NEMBA NEMBA Sponsors—36 air at NEMBA’s St. Patty’s Day Bash. Adam Thomas, Cape Cod & Islands NEMBA NEMBA Calendar—39 Mary Tunnicliffe, Berkshire NEMBA See inside for all the gory details. John Turchi, CT NEMBA Know Someone who wants to Carolyn Zept, SE MA NEMBA Advertise? We are also dedicated to having fun! SingleTracks offers inexpensive and tar- NEMBA, P.O. Box 2221, Acton MA 01720 geted advertising which helps us 800 -57-NEMBA defray the cost of producing this cool ‘zine. Call 800-57-NEMBA or email WWW.NEMBA.ORG [email protected] for our media kit. 3 Chain Letters Thanks for creating Walker Point What an honor for Steve, who died January 12, 2000 at the age of Steve Shakin could not have chosen a better day for the dedication 35. A beautiful tribute from his friends with whom he rode and of Walker Point to my son, Steve. January 7th was cold but maintained the Trail of Tears. Charlie Genatossio from the Town of sparkled with sunshine and some brilliant bits of wit and humor. Barnstable's structures department presented me with a color map Butch Walker, Steve's uncle, arrived from Petersborough NH to featuring the newly named "Walker Point" and a poem entitled attend along with our "Success" Hyannis family, Jim by Ralph Walker, his wife Waldo Sylvia, Jim Jr. and Emerson. Lynette Blank. We After a gathered at the West cham- Barnstable Conser- pagne vation Area to take a toast and walk to the overlook: some 15 minutes uphill. Stevie stories, There in the woods we was a beautiful deck enjoyed Cape NEMBA’s Charlie Genatossio and Steve newly constructed home videos and snacks at Steve Shakin's home in Sandwich. Walker’s mom, Maggie Walker and designed by Steve Shakin and built with the help of Cape Cod NEMBA members, The young men and women of NEMBA are exhilarating, most Mike Dubee and Perry Ermi. A grant had been secured through the enjoyable, warm down-to-earth people to be around. They work Barnstable Conservation Department, and a plaque was affixed to and play hard, giving of themselves when situations like this arise. the deck designed and given by Kevin Healey. No wonder my son loved to be in their company. It reads, in part: "In memory of Steven D. Walker. This overlook Thank you all so much. —Maggie Walker, Steve Walker’s mother deck was built by NEMBA." 4 TREADLINES Krisztina Holly inducted into Pedro’s-Harpoon Mountain Bike NEMBA’s Trail of Fame Adventure Series hits the Dirt On March 4th, Krisztina Holly was inducted into NEMBA’s exclussive for Charity Trail of Fame, joining NEMBA’s founder, Heidi Davis, and longtime Presented by MetroSports Magazine and NEMBA, the kickoff of NEMBA ambassador and mentor, Bill Boles. Honored for her many the Pedro’s-Harpoon Mountain Bike Adventure Series charity achievments in regional mountain bike advocacy, Krisztina’s accom- rides begin in Lynn Woods on May 5th. The ride will raise money for the David Kirby Fund, the cyclist who was paralyzed riding Lynn Woods last summer, so come show your support. Soon to fol- low, get ready to trek to some epic prime riding in the Berkshires on May 27 when the Adventure Series moves to the Holyoke Range for some awe- some riding. And on June 2nd, the charity series will head south to Connecticut to ride and support the Lance Armstrong Foundation. By joining us and supporting these good causes, you will be swagged and treated by Harpoon’s delectible brews! Every Pedro’s-Harpoon Adventure ride will end at a pub! This is going Bill Boles present the Trail of Fame Award at NEMBA’s St. Patty’s Bike Bash to be a fun-packed series of events for everyone, so don’t miss them! plishments are numerous. She founded the New England Mountain For directions and event locations, go to www.mtbadventure- Bike Patrol, organized the first-ever North East Mountan Bike series.org or call 800-57-NEMBA. Advocacy Summit, produced the original NEMBAFest, and has served as NEMBA’s president during the important transition of making NEMBA a professional organization. She is a past recipient of IMBA’s Shimano Action Hero Award, as well as EFTA’s Heidi Davis Award. Are you innovative? A research group at MIT Sloan School of Management is doing a research study on "customer innovations in sports." The research group wants to determine whether customers are, in fact, an impor- tant source for innovations that should not be neglected, and are focusing on mountain biking-related products. As a result, we have an opportunity to be part of their study! A summary of the results will be published in a future issue of SingleTracks. If you love to ride and if you have ever had an idea for a new product, you are just the person they are looking for. If you are interested in participating - which means answering an on-line or paper question- naire and possibly participating in a follow-up phone interview - go to http://web.mit.edu/cluth/www/index.html or contact Christian Luthje ([email protected], 617-253-6684) as soon as possible. The study ends in late April. NEMBA Jerseys, Shorts in Stock We got them; you need ‘em! Get dressed for spring with our custom NEMBAwear, designed by our own graphic design guru, Mary Tunnicliffe, and made in New England by VoMax. The jerseys are $55 and the shorts $45, or buy a set for $90. You’ll love them! Call 800- 57-NEMBA to order yours! 5 TREADLINES Register for NEMBA’s Trail White Mountains Trail Building Building School Weekend, May 19-20th Act fast if you wish to register for NEMBA/IMBA’s Trail Building Mark your calendars for some great local riding and to help create School to be held near Manchester, New Hampshire over the week- history! NEMBA's White Mountain chapter and the IMBA/Subaru end of May 12th and 13th.