Membership Social – Jackalope Brewing Tap Room, May 15th 6pm
Your Tickets to Win a Lynskey Pro29 VF Frame will be available via $10 Donation and you can also register for the 2nd Annual Ale for the Trail, hosted by Land Rover Nashville, June 15th.
Jackalope Brewing is located at 701 Eighth Ave. S. Nashville, TN and will also be one of our Ale for the Trail Brew Sponsors.
Please share and bring your friends!

Want more healthy family oriented outdoor facilities in the Nashville area?  The Middle TN chapter of the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association has developed a strong relationship with Nashville Davidson Country Metro Parks to create mountain bike trails in multiple parks throughout the county, particularly in areas that have no beginner or intermediate level trails.  With Tennessee being one of the 5 worst states in childhood obesity, these new trails can get the active outdoor experience a bit closer to your neighborhood.
Since 2004 SORBA Middle TN has been dedicated to enhancing our sport …

Land Rover Nashville to host our 2nd Annual Trail Fund Raising, Beer Tasting, Live Music from CMA Nominated Keith Anderson, Hot Munchies and Trail Story Telling evening with our friends….all for only a $35 donation!  We’ve had some SWAG monsters jump in to add to some of the world’s best brew.  EARLY REGISTRATION gets you a pair of the Worlds Best Socks – Swiftwick Rules!!

Wow..THIS JUST IN!  Lynskey Performance Titanium Bicycles has donated a Pro 29 Frame just for you…For only a $10 Donation – Get your TICKET TO …

As Promised….It has become a very busy year of TRAIL BUILDING!  We are eager to not only train volunteers to better understand how to build sustainable trails, but to set a great example and pay it forward to our mountain bike community.
If you have this passion as we do….join us for two days at Bell’s Bend Outdoor Center April 14 & 15.
Click here for all the details and to register…NOW!
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Special Thanks to all the GREAT VOLUNTEERS bring more trail to Tennessee!

What great day to build a trail. Sunday January 22nd IMBA-SORBA Middle TN hosted a party of 25 trail volunteers and gave birth to phase 1 of the Cane Ridge Park Mountain Bike Trail. This 2.2 mile section is the beginning leg of a proposed 9 mile trail system in Davidson County’s southeastern border to Rutherford county line, just off Battle Road. Cane Ridge is an established ball park and radio control airplane venue, which is one of the current volunteer projects under construction by IMBA-SORBA Middle …

Yazoo Brew Tap Room is hosting our Nashville Premier of “Pedal Driven” Bikumentary, at 6:oo pm, Wednesday Nov. 16th.  We are eager to share much about new projects and growth of mountain biking in Middle TN, so join us to get the scoop.  We need your support to complete these new trails.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend. Click here and register to attend.  Limited seats available.
This is a free event.  On sight Donations and IMBA-SORBA membeships are encouraged!
Not a member?  Join us NOW! Choose Middle TN for your …

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Upcoming Rides/Socials/Events
10/1
Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day 2011
Get your kids in the Dirt…Bring your fat tire bikes!
Alexander Trail – Easy trail, beginner skill level.
Saturday 10am-2pm, Thomson Station, TN
president@sorbamidtn.org
10/7
IMBA-SORBA Social
Friday, 7pm
Shelter 4 at Edwin Warner Park – MAP/DIRECTIONS HERE
president@sorbamidtn.org
10/9
Racoon Mtn Group Ride – Road Trip
Meet at the Clarion Inn in Murfreesboro
at 8:00am to car pool
or
Meet at the Visitor Center on top of Raccoon Mtn
at 10:00am CENTRAL TIME
president@sorbamidtn.org

Please read the memo from Davidson County resident and IMBA-SORBA board member Carolyn Heichel, as she shares info from the Warner Parks/Burch Preserve Public Meeting on March 22nd.
For those of you unable to attend the meeting last night…I’ll try to give a quick recap (as it pertains to mountain biking): Although mountain bike trails were not part of the master plan for the new Burch Reserve property, according to Tim Netsch (Assistant Director Planning & Facilities – Metro Parks) mountain bike trails WILL be added in Percy Warner Park on …

March 23rd Tennessean Article, “Runners Bikers want to use trails” after Public Meeting does not share all the details that will avoid user conflict.  With the announcement of mountain bike specific trails at Percy Warner that will not intersect others, we now look to the county wide master plan and work PW into a high priority project.  More info to be shared in April as sight review will render a glimpse of what’s to come.
Tennessean – Residents Debate Warner Parks…
IMBA E-news Article
SORBA Member’s letter to the Tennessean
Same Tennessean Article reference …

Please pass this link on to EVERYONE!  We need a strong response on the  Friends of Warner Parks website from the mountain bike community!!  It only takes a minute!
For those of you who were unable to make the public meeting last Thursday to discuss the use of the new Warner Parks Burch Reserve, I will try to give a short recap.  The property containing the old growth forest has already been set aside as a State Natural Area and will not be up for discussion …