The Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association Middle Tennessee chapter is backing an $11,000 project to improve three trails at Hamilton Creek Recreation Area with two kiosks, trail signs, park entrance signs and a skills confidence course. The trails off Bell Road are on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers property between Percy Priest Lake and the Nashville International Airport.

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Our proposal to add a new trail sign program, rework the Lakefront Trail Head Kiosk and to build a new Pinnacle Trail Head Info Center has been submitted to Metro Parks and will go before the Park Board on Tuesday, March 2nd at 1:30. This is a move forward after last December’s annual permit agreement between our chapter and Metro Parks. This will allow the much celebrated partnership with our land manager to grow and embrace many trail amenities, as mentioned above, but possibly a skills confidence course …

Click the link below for the meeting notes.
MidTN Chatper Feb 2010 Meeting Notes
We are spoiled now with our Secretary’s video record and hope to see more of the same…Thanks Greg!

SORBA MidTN Meeting 2/18/10 from Greg Lawrence on Vimeo.

Come hang out with SORBA at Charlie Bob’s (restaurant/bar off Dickerson Pk in Nashville) for some fun and fellowship. Bring a non-SORBA friend and get your name in the drawing for some goodies. If your friend signs up for SORBA that night, get your name in the drawing again (along with your friend), and the Pres will personally buy you a beer! SORBA will provide some appetizers and you can order additional food and drink at the bar!
We will have a brief meeting giving updates on local …

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IMBA-SORBA Middle TN has entered in to a formal relationship with Metro Nashville Parks and Recreation.  In a December 2009 Parks board meeting an “Annual Permit” was approved by the board.  Typically referred to as an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding), the Annual Permit will allow greater involvement and stewardship by our local chapter as well as enhance the trail experience.
Our chapter has submitted drawings and plans to update the lakeside trail kiosk and build a new trail info center at the Ned Shelton Pinnacle trail head by Spring 2010. …

IMBA-SORBA Middle TN is privileged to announce Lynskey Performance Titanium Bicycles has donated a Pro 29 Titanium Frame as a Trail Fundraising offering for only $10 donation per ticket.  Lynskey’s frame donation is a great addition to our 2nd Annual Ale for the Trail Craft Brew Tasting, June 15th at 6pm, hosted at Land Rover Nashville.
One lucky WINNER will take home this Titanium Beaut!  You don’t need to be present to win, but join us for some world class brew.

Darryl and I loaded up the bikes and camping gear early Friday morning and headed down to South Carolina for the first of the 2 planned Board of Directors meetings this year. IMBA is starting to implement a Regional Level design to try to get other areas of the nation coming together, working together, sharing ideas, resources, etc… They are modeling this off of the SORBA model, so this Board of Directors meeting is really the Southeast’s RLC meeting and already ahead of the game. Chapter board members from Florida, …