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NEMBAFest ~ June 11th ~ MTB Festival SSingleingleTTrackrackSS MayMay 2006,2006, NumberNumber 8585 www.nemba.orgwww.nemba.org GGoooodd OOlldd DDaayyss ooff FFrreeeerriiddiinngg Hey,Hey, Hey...Hey... MaahMaah DaahDaah Hey!Hey! NEMBA’sNEMBA’s MondoMondo EventsEvents CalendarCalendar 100s100s ofof Rides,Rides, TonsTons ofof EventsEvents SoSo littlelittle time,time, soso muchmuch toto do!do! WHEELWORKS THANKS our CUSTOMERS and VENDORS for recognizing our commitment to CYCLING. Visit us: March 31- April 5 AS The Original SuperSale kicks off the cycling season! SSingleingleTTrackS NEMBA, the New England Mountain Bike May 2006, Number 85 Association, is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organi- zation dedicated to promoting trail access, maintaining trails open for mountain bicyclists, and educating mountain bicyclists to use these trails sensitively and responsibly. Hey, Hey... SingleTracks is published six times a year by the New England Mountain Bike Association for the trail community. Maah Daah ©SingleTracks Editor & Publisher: Philip Keyes Hey 16 Contributing Writer: Jeff Cutler Copy Editor: Nanyee Keyes Singletrack heaven snaking across North Dakota Executive Director: Philip Keyes makes for a great singlespeed adventure. By [email protected] Alexis Arapoff NEMBA PO Box 2221 Acton MA 01720 Good Old Voice 800.57.NEMBA Fax: 717-326-8243 [email protected] Days of Board of Directors Freeriding 21 Tom Grimble, President Bill Boles, Vice-President Anne Shepard, Treasurer Tom Masterson,1990 masters cyclocross champion, Tina Hopkins, Secretary reminisces about the early days of freeriding and why they got him to start his own mountain bike camp for young Rob Adair, White Mountains NEMBA and old. By Tom Masterson Norman Blanchette, MV NEMBA Todd Bumen, Mt. Agamenticus NEMBA Tom Carruthers, CT NEMBA Peter DeSantis, Seacoast NEMBA Bob Hall, SC NH NEMBA SingleTracks Hey, get creative! We wel- Steve Cole, Mt. Agamenticus NEMBA come submissions, photos and artwork. This is Jon Conti, White Mountains NEMBA your forum and your magazine. Be nice, and John Dudek, Pioneer Valley NEMBA share! Bob Giunta, Merrimack Valley NEMBA Harold Green, Pioneer Valley NEMBA On the Cover: Tim Post and crew build new Rich Higgins, SE MA NEMBA singletrack at Great Brook Farm State Park in Dan Ibittson, SE MA NEMBA Carlisle, MA. Join them again on June 4th. Photo Krisztina Holly, At Large Paper Trail Tina Hopkins, Rhode Island NEMBA by Philip Keyes Rich Kordell, Blackstone Valley NEMBA Event Calendar — 4 Have a pic that would make a good cover shot? Ernie Phillips, Maine NEMBA Email it to [email protected] Bill Piotte, North Shore NEMBA Off the Front — 5 Heather Linscott, Berkshire NEMBA Want to Advertise? Tom McCrumm, Berkshire NEMBA Treadlines — 6 Matt Mueller, CT NEMBA SingleTracks offers inexpensive and targeted Scott Nixon, SC NH NEMBA Board Update —14 advertising which helps us defray the cost of Joseph Re, Greater Boston NEMBA producing this cool ‘zine. 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Your mission —should you choose to friends and col- accept it— is to prevent the destruction of the planet as we know it. leagues. There are sinister forces at work, as we speak, that are spreading tar- We have provided mac, selling off anything green, and are working to create a flaccid and you with a few flabby spirit amongst our nation, our youth, our future. basic tools and venues for you to Already they have cut the budgets of our state parks, worked to max- begin your mission. imize suburbia, increased the hours we spend trapped in our cubicles, Take advantage of and are now controlling and manufacturing the very values and goals them, and help us which engender our motives, our lives. subvert the mean- They call themselves Progress. ing of progress. Progress exists in all of us. It is a system of values, of mind-control. Get on your bike It encompasses our aspirations, our desire to increase the well being and bring a friend —help change the world one rider at a time.
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