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Singletracks #57 September 2002 Magazine of the New England Mountain Bike Association August / September, Number 57 wwwwww..nneemmbbaa..oorrgg Riding the nasty New England’s Best Swimming holes Don’t get Even: Get Political! Win a Santa Cruz Superlight! Moab Dream Vacation 2 SSingleingleTTrackS August / September 2001, Number 57 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 9 Technical Survival by riders like you. Even if you’re not an extreme rider, learning how to ride like one will increase your cross-country ©SingleTracks prowess and your fun. By Mike Rowell Editor & Publisher: Philip Keyes Singletracks Committee: Bill Boles, Krisztina Holly, Nanyee Keyes, and Mary Tunnicliffe Executive Director: Philip Keyes Letters/Submissions: New England’s Best Swimming SingleTracks 14 PO Box 2221 Holes Acton MA 01720 Now that we’re in the dog days of summer, what Voice 800.57.NEMBA better excuse for a ride than to cool your toes in Fax: 520-395-7759 one of New England’s best swimming holes. By Email: [email protected] Krisztina Holly Board of Directors Bill Boles, President 17 Len Earnshaw, Vice-President Don’t Get Even: Get Political! Anne Shepard, Treasurer Don’t just complain about your favorite riding area John Dudek, Secretary getting shut down, get involved and get political. Rob Adair, White Mountains NEMBA Mark Bialas, Merrimack NEMBA Here are a few tips on how to get political effective- Norman Blanchette, Merrimack NEMBA ly. By Andrew Stackhouse Bill Boles, SE MA NEMBA Scott Briere, Greater Boston NEMBA Jack Chapman, EFTA Liason Bob Croston, Greater Boston NEMBA SingleTracks welcomes submissions Hunt Durey, North Shore NEMBA and artwork from our literate or cre- Jim Grimley, RI NEMBA ative membership. This is your forum Gray Harrison, Wachusett NEMBA and your magazine, so please send us Krisztina Holly, At Large stuff! Tina Hopkins, Rhode Island NEMBA Paper Trail Mark Jenks, White Mountains NEMBA Contribute! Got a cool story idea? Rich LaBombard, Pioneer Valley NEMBA Rob Macgregor, VT NEMBA Treadlines —3 Want to build your publishing resume? Tom McCrumm, Berkshire NEMBA Happenings —6 Give us a call. You can reach us at Deb McCulloch, Cape Cod & Islands NEMBA SideTracks —18 [email protected] or call 800- TJ Mora, VT NEMBA 57-NEMBA. Mark Polomski, SC NH NEMBA Travel —20 Jason Record, Seacoast NEMBA Chapter News —23 On the Cover: Jason Record of Jean Ruben, SC NH NEMBA Seacoast NEMBA shows some Alex Sokolow, CT NEMBA NEMBA Rides —30 descending skill down the Lynn Woods Dan Streeter, North Shore NEMBA NEMBA Sponsors—36 Mitch Steinberg, Blackstone Valley NEMBA Bow Ridge trails. By Philip Keyes Adam Thomas, Cape Cod NEMBA NEMBA Calendar—38 Know Someone who wants to Mary Tunnicliffe, Berkshire NEMBA John Turchi, CT NEMBA Advertise? Carolyn Zept, SE MA NEMBA SingleTracks offers inexpensive and tar- We are also dedicated to having fun! geted advertising which helps us NEMBA, P.O. Box 2221, defray the cost of producing this cool Acton MA 01720 ‘zine. Call 800-57-NEMBA or email 800 -57-NEMBA [email protected] for our media kit. WWW.NEMBA.ORG 3 TREADLINES Cape Cod NEMBA Officially Pedro’s-Harpoon MTB Series Cited Raises Money for Charities,Trails Cape Cod NEMBA seems to be With four events a magnet for awards! This cita- under its belt, the tion is from the Massachuetts MBAS has raised State Senate, recognizing them $6099 for charity for being the recipient of their and the trails, and Massachusetts Environmental has brought in 119 Trust grant. Cape Cod NEMBA new NEMBA mem- has been involved in a number bers. By the time of wetlands restoration pro- you read this, the jects and continues to help series will have hit Cape Cod towns protect their the Freetown State open spaces and balance Forest and Great resource protection with pas- Brook Farm State sive recreation, which natural- Forest as well. ly, includes mountain biking. There’s still time to come to the season finale in the White Mountains on September 23, so don't miss out on the fun—all for a good cause. For directions Ted Wojcik Bicycles / Mavic Trail and times, go to www.mtbadventureseries.org. Care Series Expands Northward What began as Seacoast NEMBA’s trail maintenance series has NEMBA Membership Drive expanded to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. As part of NEMBA has begun its first direct mail membership campaign, send- the series, all trail events held by White Mountains NEMBA and ing 11,000 new NEMBA brochures to mountain bikers throughout Seacoast NEMBA are now eligible to win great stuff from the two the region. The address databases were generously provided by the main sponsors, Ted Wojcik Bicycles and Mavic USA. So get out National Offroad Bicycle Association, the International Mountain there, lend a hand, and win some great swag! Bike Association, Mountain Bike Magazine, and Backcountry Excursions of Maine. If you would like to help NEMBA grow by handing out brochures to your friends and riding buddies, send an email to [email protected] or call 800-57-NEMBA and we’ll mail you some. It’s important that NEMBA’s membership grows so that we can represent all bikers in the region and continue to promote and safeguard our sport. In the meantime, ask your friends if they’re members. If not, tell them that joining online is quick and painless. Blood-Sucking Tick Attack! OK, this has nothing to do with NEMBA. Instead it comes from Reuters: “An Austrian girl was bitten by 150 ticks in what doctors say appears to be a record blood-sucking spree, state television ORF said on Tuesday. The 10-year-old girl was attacked by the swarm of ticks as she cycled through a meadow near her home in the northern province of Upper Austria. ``We've never seen such an invasion,'' said Dr. Klaus Schmid, head of the internist division at the local hos- pital. The girl was lucky to have been vaccinated against tick poison, which can be fatal.” Editor’s Note: Yipes! 4 TREADLINES RI NEMBA works Arcadia Seacoast Works Northwood On April 22, Rhode Island NEMBA repaired water damage along a The Seacoast Chapter undertook its largest and most involved trail on the south side of Arcadia Management Area. This involved project on a cool Sunday morning on the 6th of May. The damming the Northwood part of a stream Meadows State that was taking Park Boardwalk a short cut project was part down the trail of the Ted Wojcik and shoring up Custom Bicycles/ the side of the Mavic Trail Care trail to prevent Series. Headed more damage up by Chris by people rid- Kofer, the project ing the sides of consisted of the trail. A building a board- good crowd, a walk to cross a beautiful day, stream. Spanning 36 feet, the Boardwalk was the major focus of some great work and a fun ride afterwards. —Chris Hughes the group and took the entire team effort of over a dozen volun- teers most of the day to complete. —Len Earnshaw Save the Vietnam Picnic Table Time to Buy Tix is Now! There is a poor, innocent picnic table that doesn’t deserve to be destroyed. Member Jan Hubbell recently took up a collection to Don’t procrastinate! Show your support of NEMBA’s Trails Grant buy a picnic table for the office park where many mountain bikers Program and buy up some raffle tickets to win a Santa Cruz park to use the trails at Vietnam. If you see people hopping on it Superlight and other awesome prizes. The drawing will take place with their bikes, tell ‘em to pick on something their own size! We early fall, and time is going by all too quick. You can order online could lose our ability to park there otherwise. at www.nemba.org or call 800-57-NEMBA. 5 HAPPENINGS Bear Brook Boogie, EFTA/NEMBA Extravaganza by Len Earnshaw, Photos by John Gunterman, Seacoast Thunder and I wonder lightning, very, what the very frightening, day will me? Not afraid? bring. Naa, it's just the Arriving at weather report. the Park at It wouldn't dare, I 8:00 am we hoped! find that Sue Blais- Weeks of plan- dell, the ning, endless EFTA Fun Ride Chairperson, is already there and is getting things hours of prepara- going. The morning drizzle has stopped as Sue works with my tion and now lovely wife Laurel to get the tent set up at the registration booth. with everything Dave, Lori and Jon put up the final arrows and signs while John and done, it comes down to the final set of circumstances, especially Jason Record wait for people to start showing up to direct them on the weather. parking. A few weeks prior to the event, with state approval in hand, I con- Slowly at first but picking up as the morning moved on the registra- tact my trusted route advisors David Heath and Robert Waldroup tion booth was swamped, not with rain but with riders registering who designed last year’s course. We discuss the possibility of mak- for the event and anticipating a great day. Sue, Laurel, Betty and Jill ing changes to add more singletrack to the long loop. It’s hard Heath kept the registration line moving and assisted in the raffle work, and an art in itself—it also takes longer that you’d think.
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