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 with better trails and user education.  Now we have land managers and government recognzing mountain bike and multi-use natural surface trails as facilities like ball parks and golf courses.  The advantage of mountain bike trails are the dedicated volunteers and low maintenance of sustainable trail design.  SORBA Mid TN recently hosted a Sustainable Trails Workshop at Bells Bend Outdoor Center to offer a hands on experience for a dozen students.  When volunteers are investing hundreds of hours in hand built sustainable trail, a lifestyle such as mountain biking starts to get noticed even more.

UPDATE: Experienced volunteer trail leaders have begun trail construction at Cane Ridge Park in the southeastern boarder of Davidson County, with the 1.8 mile phase 1 almost completed.  Phase 2 will begin this summer with detailed flagging and layout planned to offer fun flowing rhythm sections of over 4 miles.  Phase 3 will soon follow with hopes of near 9 miles of total trail at Cane Ridge.

“volunteers are investing hundreds of hours of hand built SUSTAINABLE trial…..”

IMBA-SORBA Mid TN’s 2^nd project with Metro Parks at Bell’s Bend will undergo layout and flagging this summer as well to enhance a Gateway trail of about 60% open space and the remainder in wooded gentle slopping terrain.  Bells Bend is located North of the Cumbeland River on Old Hickory Blvd.  With the Bells Bend Outdoor Center staff and programs, this 4.5 mile trail should offer many youth program opportunities liken to Trips for Kids.

The 3^rd but not final Metro Parks project with IMBA-SORBA Mid TN will be the gem of Percy Warner Park on a beautiful section at the northeast corner of the park.  International Mountain Bike Assoc. (IMBA) Trails Solutions, along with IMBA-SORBA Mid TN leadership and Warner Park Staff, has done a preliminary trail assessment of the Warner site in hopes to begin blueprint and layout during the Winter of 2012 to Spring of 2013.  This timeline and plan will rely on progress with the other two projects.  It is important for the success of these projects that all mountain bikers either Join IMBA-SORBA, share this information with other outdoor lovers and volunteer!

FUNDING THE MOVEMENT: As funding assistance for these projects, IMBA-SORBA Mid TN has applied for an RTP grant and will promote the 2^nd Annual Ale for the Trail Craft Brew Tasting, hosted at Land Rover Nashville.

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 2^nd Annual Ale for the Trail Craft Brew Tasting, June 15^th at 6pm, hosted at Land Rover Nashville.

Ale for the Trail will offer guests flavors from 9 different breweries, a souvenir pint tasting glass, Swiftwick Socks, also sponsored by ProGold, Road ID, with more coming.  Enjoy live music from our mountain biking, country singing/songwriting friend, Keith Anderson (Picking Wild Flowers) that is also a part of this trail building evening.  $35 donation gets you an Ale for the Trail ticket.  All registration, brewery and event information available now at sorbamidtn.org.

Ale for the Trail will help fund new trail projects in the Nashville area.  For more information please contact IMBA-SORBA Middle TN at info@sorbamidtn.org

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 WIN!

HELP US BUILD MORE TRAIL!

DONATE & Get your tickets NOW!!

Plus we’ll be pouring from these great breweries….

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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!

CLICK HERE!

Special Thanks to all the GREAT VOLUNTEERS bring more trail to Tennessee!

What great day to build a trail. Sunday January 22^nd 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 Tennessee.

A few facts from the 1^st work day:

-26 Trail Volunteers introduced to this project

-100+ hours of TRAIL LOVE!

-3600 feet of new corridor

-Lots of smiles and energy taking us forward!

Don’t let us loose this incredible momentum and Join us….February 4^th and 18^th Cane Ridge Trail Love Work Days.

Link to more details and REGISTER to show your volunteer spirit and become a TRAIL BUILDER!

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 affiliate chapter.

Yazoo Brew Tap Room is located at 910 Divsion Street, Nashville, TN 37203 – 615.891.4649

Visit Howell at the Moon Productions to learn more about Pedal Driven and other HATM documentaries.

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Let’s see….how can we double the amount of mountain bike singletrack in Middle TN? Well, for a couple of years we have been working on taking area trails from a total 50 miles to over 100 miles by 2015. That’s only 4 years and tons of funding and volunteer sweat equity is required to make this happen. IMBA-SORBA, with local governments will make this happen with your support. We need members, active members! We must draw on the talent of folks that love the trail and are willing to challenge their neighbors to JOIN, Volunteer and share their Trail Love!

New trails….Where? Cane Ridge, Bell’s Bend, Percy Warner and Joelton Parks in Davidson County (Master Plan sites), with a potential site in Williamson County. Work day schedule for Cane Ridge will be published soon, so keep in touch. You can follow us on this site, NashvilleMountainBike.com forum and IMBA-SORBA MidTN Facebook Fan Page for updates and details.

Fund raising and leadership opportunities are upon on the horizon, including a local Country Artists offer to host a benefit for Percy Warner MTB Trail Funding. Are you up for it? It’s going to be a great ride!

This note from Nashville Metro Parks Planning on the heels of the Burch Preserve Meetings at Percy Warner.

Mountain Bike Trails
A spin-off from the Burch Reserve planning process has been the identification of approximately 120 acres in Percy Warner Park for the development of new, single-use mountain bike trails. Shared use with existing hiking and equestrian trails is not proposed.
In response to the need for additional mountain bike trails throughout Davidson County, Metro Parks convened in late 2010 a committee of representatives from IMBA, SORBA and Mayor Dean’s Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee to look countywide at opportunities for mountain bike trail development. The committee is developing a working conceptual master plan that will include priorities and recommendations based on geographic distribution, skill level served, program opportunities and other factors. Planning for the Percy Warner mountain bike trails is being wrapped into this larger planning process. Metro Parks expects to be able to present the plan later this year.

EVENT POSTPONED!!  Update 6/23/2011

Due to the unforseeable string of wet weather, we are moving this event to July 9, 10. July 9 the Festival and Kid’s race, July 10th the Harpeth Bikes 50 miles of Hamilton Creek. I think it will be too wet for this to be a success. Our goal is to have this race in dry conditions and having it this weekend will be impossible. In the future for Hamilton Creek events, I will make a rain date part of the original plan. It typically does not rain this much in June and we picked June for this reason. The trail will likely be damaged and the conditions dangerous if we run the events this weekend.

If this causes anyone who has pre-registered any hardship, please let me know so we can work out a refund for you. I believe I can speak for Harpeth Bikes and Sorba that we want the best event we can put on and create the best experience we can for all riders and spectators. Moving the event is the best way to do this.

Thanks for understanding and please join us!

Tim Spencer, Race Director

contact: hamcreekfest@sorbamidtn.org

MTB Community – Coming June 25 & June 26.

Harpeth Bikes and IMBA-SORBA Middle TN are stepping up this year to make this and AWESOME event! This year, among many other things to be announced as they become finalized, Harpeth Bicycles and Ellsworth will be GIVING AWAY a BRAND NEW Ellsworth Glimpse to one lucky racing participant.

Race Entry will be $45, but with Harpeth and other sponsors, we believe you are going to get your money’s worth! More details to come, but I think it’s time to start training at Hamilton Creek!

RACE INFO HERE!

How will we cross under Bell Road? Good question! There will be a MANDATORY dismount and riders will have to walk their bikes under the tunnel. We will have two way traffic marked off on the connector that gets you from the Pinnacle Trail to the Lakeside Trail.

This year we will be racing the ENTIRE trail and starting/finishing at the Ned Shelton trail head. We will be racing CCW direction (Not “backwards”) and there will be solo and team categories.

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We will have the normal events including clinics, the skid race, hill climb as well as Kids Mountain Bike Racing – kid Parent relay, face painting and more! Festival is Free! Mark your calendars, invite your friends because there will be demo bikes available
Thanks to Sorba Middle Tennessee and Harpeth Bikes for stepping up huge..and by the way, I haven’t even told you have the stuff that will happen there just because it’s not all 100% written in stone. (Just 99%)

Tim Spencer – Race Director   hamcreekfest@sorbamidtn.org