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New England Mountain Bike Association NovemberNovember 20102010 #112#112 www.nemba.orgwww.nemba.org Outreach: NEMBA Racing SSingleingleTTrackS NEMBA, the New England Mountain Bike November 2010, Number 112 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. NEMBA Racing 6 SingleTracks is published six times a year by the Racing is an important --and fun-- component of New England Mountain Bike Association for mountain biking and we hope to expose racers to the trail community. NEMBA , as well as have some good clean fun! ©SingleTracks Editor & Publisher: Philip Keyes Contributing Writers: Bill Boles, Jeff Cutler 11 Cartoonist: Philiippe Guillerm Copy Editor: Nanyee Keyes Planes, Pains, and Executive Director: Philip Keyes [email protected] Sebaceous Cysts the NEMBA Size Of Kuatos PO Box 2221 The ongoing saga of a Demi Pro racer. By Thom Parsons Acton MA 01720 Board of Directors Harold Green, President 12 Places to Ride: Matt Schulde, Vice-President Anne Shepard, Treasurer Tom Grimble, Secretary D.A.R. State Forest Located in central MA, D.A.R. has some great singletrack, Rob Adair, White Mountains NEMBA excellent climbs and descents, and tons of good scenery. Brian Alexander, CeMeNEMBA John Anders, Midcoast Maine NEMBA By Jay Bell & Sara Ahern John Barley, White Mountains NEMBA Brian Beneski, CeMeNEMBA Matt Bowser, Central NH NEMBA Eammon Carleton, BV NEMBA Matt Caron, Southern NH NEMBA SingleTracks Hey, get creative! We wel- Steve Cobble, SE MA NEMBA come submissions, photos and artwork. This is Leo Corrigan, RI NEMBA Kevin Davis, Midcoast Maine NEMBA your forum and your magazine. Be nice, and Peter DeSantis, Southern NH NEMBA Paper Trail share! Bob Giunta, MV NEMBA Adam Glick, Greater Boston NEMBA On the Cover: Adam Coppola captures the Brad Herder, Berkshire NEMBA 2010 Events — 4 excitement of racing in his photography. For Rich Higgins, SE MA NEMBA more visit www.coppolaphotography.com. Steve LaFlame, Central NH NEMBA Treadlines — 5 Have a pic that would make a good cover shot? Frank Lane, NS NEMBA Places to Ride — 12 Casey Leonard, Midcoast Maine NEMBA Email it to [email protected] Mark Lurie, CT NEMBA Cartoon — 17 Bill Markham, Berkshire NEMBA Want to Underwrite in ST? Fred Masciangelo, Greater Portland NEMBA Basic Biking — 16 SingleTracks offers inexpensive and targeted Eric Mayhew, CT NEMBA underwriting which helps us defray the cost of Harry Meyers, Berkshire NEMBA SideTracks — 18 David Riding, SE MA NEMBA producing this cool ‘zine. Call 800-57-NEMBA Steve Rossi, PV NEMBA Chapter News —22 or email [email protected] for our media kit. Tren Spence, CT NEMBA Dan Streeter, North Shore NEMBA NEMBA Rides —36 Moving? Mike Tabaczynski, Greater Boston NEMBA Support our Sponsors —38 Don’t miss an issue! Change your address online John Vosburg, Blackstone Valley NEMBA at nemba.org or mail it into SingleTracks, PO Box Mitch Wacksman, Greater Portland NEMBA 2221, Acton MA 01720 WWW.NEMBA.ORG NEMBA 2010 Events Calendar Kona Bicycles-Fox Shox MTB Adventure Series October 31 Wicked Ride of the East N. Andover MA Fun Stuff Dec. 4 New England MTB Video Film Festival Dec. 21 Blue Groove Charity Ride, Robinson SF, Agawam MA Dec. 12 Lincoln Woods, RI, Fun Ride, www.rinemba.org Trek Bicycles / NEMBA Trail Care Series (CT, MA, RI) CT NEMBA Oct. 26 Ward Reservation, [email protected] Oct. 23 Huntington SP, [email protected] SE MA NEMBA Merrimack Valley NEMBA Nov 6 Wompatuck SP, [email protected] Oct. 16 TBA Wachusett NEMBA Merrimack Valley NEMBA Oct 17 Westminster, [email protected] Oct. 16 Russell Mill, [email protected] Oct. 17 Leominster SF, [email protected] North Shore NEMBA Oct. 17 TBD Jamis Bicycles / NEMBA Trail Care Series (NH & ME) Carrabassett Region NEMBA Central NH NEMBA Oct. 24 Maine Huts & Trails, [email protected] Oct. 24 Ahern SP, Laconia, [email protected] Sinister Bikes Vietnam Trail Tour Every Tuesday Evening [email protected] NEMBA’s 2010 Access Raffle Win this Custom Scott Genius Bike! Great Prizes from... Order Your Tickets at www.nemba.org Scott Bicycles Mavic Exposure Lights Fox Racing Shox BCE of Maine Thule Fire Up Your Camera’s Get Set to Submit Your Video Check ‘em Out on the Big Screen Submit by November 1 www.NEMBA.org Premier Showing: Dec 4, 2010 4 | November 2010 Ride the Trails OFF THE FRONT Riders Like You Is it just me or was this riding season so jam-packed that there was politician/mountain biker, some of the trails at Big River are officially never an opportunity to just kick back and chill? One thing's for sure: open to riding. This is big, and will hopefully get bigger! there's never a dull moment in NEMBAland. But while advocacy is tough and important work, we know it’s all On the advocacy front, the engines have been on full bore. After about the ride. We provide hundreds of opportunities for people to more than two decades, things have come to a head at the Middlesex enjoy their bicycles. Our kids' rides (which are really family rides) Fells, and there's potential for significant positive change to the have gotten more and more families out on the trail together. Our ridiculously restrictive trail policy. I can’t adequately convey how clinics —especially the Ride Like a Girl series featured in the last much hard advocacy has been spent at the Fells … and continues to SingleTracks— are serving a real need in helping people get the most be spent. out of the sport and hopefully make them lifelong riders. Things also came to a boil in Connecticut after the Metropolitan And then there is the Kona Bicycles-Fox Shox MTB Adventure Series. District Commission threatened to close off all their lands to recre- Wow! This series has bloomed from five events per year to eleven. ation due to a $2.9 million settlement won by a mountain biker who The rides have been a boon to chapters looking to showcase their ran her bike into a gate and got injured. Recreational groups of all favorite trails, as well as to riders who want to experience the best types came together to provide testimony and lobby to change that New England has to offer. You still have a chance to check out Connecticut's inadequate liability protections. These efforts contin- the last event — the Wicked Ride. So be there! ue but at least the MDC isn't shutting down recreation on all their I hope the season has been a great one for you as well. We appreci- properties. ate your membership support and your volunteerism. We hope that In Rhode Island, riders have finally gotten a break. Mountain biking you appreciate what NEMBA does for mountain biking in New at Big River has always been a bit of a gray issue, and for years RI England, and I hope that you will consider making a generous dona- NEMBA has been trying to convince the Water Resources Board that tion to our end-of-season fundraising drive. Your support of mountain bikers wanted official access and become active stewards NEMBA's Annual Appeal, quite literally, keeps our doors open and of the property. RI NEMBA volunteers have even been doing major allows us to be the most rocking mountain bike advocacy organiza- clean up of the forest, hauling out tons and tons of garbage even tion in the country. As they say on PBS, this is made possible by though cycling wasn't technically allowed. Now, with the help of a Riders Like You! —Philip Keyes Save the Trails SingleTrackS No. 112 | 5 NEMBANEMBA Racing:Racing: OutreachOutreach toto thethe RaceRace CommunityCommunity waswas nevernever soso Fun!Fun! WrittenWritten by by the the NEMBA NEMBA Racing Racing members members andand compiled compiled by by team team captain, captain, Art Art Roti Roti Mark Lurie at one of the early Root 66 Races, Hop Brook. Photo by Adam Coppola to what NEMBA is all about. NEMBA Racing is Throughout the course of the season we wrapping up its inaugural season. had many fantastic results including vic- Last year several NEMBA members tories in both individual races and also the were lucky enough to be part of the EFTA series. As a team we had someone GT Dirt Coalition team. This was a at almost every EFTA and Root 66 race nationwide team of 39 riders. It this year. In all as a team we had almost was supposed to be a 2 year deal. 100 races under our belts. Not bad for the Unfortunately, we got word in late first year. January that the team was being It is very hard to determine how well we disbanded. It was real bummer. exposed the racing community to NEMBA After some discussion with Philip this year but I know from my experiences Keyes and the executive board of that people were excited to see the NEMBA we decided to put togeth- NEMBA team out there and loved hanging er our own team, but with a dis- out at the NEMBA tent. I also handed out tinctive NEMBA twist. Our mis- lots of brochures and SingleTracks maga- sion wasn’t so much to get on the zines. podium — rather, it was to spread Looking forward to next year, I hope to get NEMBA’s mission and philosophy a team of 25 racers out there in a custom to the larger community of racers. NEMBA racing jersey. We are also work- We wanted a team of 25 racers, ing hard to get some sponsors for equip- and each racer needed to commit ment and clothing.