Trail Status joe.polk | 29 Aug 2008
Current Trail Status
Chicopee trails are OPEN.
Zig Zag is temporarily CLOSED for reroutes and rehabilitation.
Gainesville State College Trails are CLOSED due to downed trees.
Trail Work sjohnston | 05 Sep 2008
Chicopee Work Party - 9/13/08 at 9:00 AM
Join us Saturday, September 13th for a Work Party! Meet us at the Chicopee MTB parking lot around 9am. Lunch and tools will be provided. We’ll be working on the new Zig Zag reroutes. We’ll also be raffling off some SWAG!Please wear closed toe shoes, Hiking/work boots recommended, and bring work gloves and enough water and snacks for 4 hours of work. We’ll work til about 12:30 then eat lunch. Bring your bike, we may ride the stuff we work on afterwards.
Rides sjohnston | 05 Sep 2008
National Public Lands Day Celebration - 9/27/08 at 10:00 AM
Join us on September 27th to celebrate National Public Lands Day at Chicopee Woods MTB Park! Meet in the MTB Parking Lot at 10:00 AM. We’ll have a group ride out to the new Flying Squirrel trail for a ribbon cutting. Around noon we’ll grill some hotdogs and Brats.
Rides sjohnston | 05 Sep 2008
Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day at Chicopee - 10/4/08 at 10:00AM!
Come out and join Gainesville SORBA as we celebrate Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day! If you have a kid that can ride a bike, bring em on out to Chicopee on Saturday, October 4th at 10:00 AM. We’ll have group rides for all abilities plus water, snacks and a SWAG drawing for some cool stuff.
TNT & Racing sjohnston | 15 Aug 2008
2008 TNT Wrap up
Thanks to everyone that came out and raced this year! We had a good turn out and raised some money to help build some new trail features and signage.
Congratulations to “Fast Norma” Rainwater for posting the fastest ladies lap time of 15:13 and to Marcus Seymour for posting the fastest mens lap time of 11:47!
I’d also like to recognize Zack Jordan for coming out and racing with us, he was the only under 14 year old to race this year and did a great job!
Special thanks to Biketown for starting this event and to “Fast Norma” Rainwater, Joy Bolt and Aimee Underwood for handling registration. Special thanks also to Joe Polk, Robi Johnston, Norma Johnston, Erika Johnston and Barry Underwood for helping with the timing and Dr. Connie Ringger for helping with the data entry. Hope to see everyone again next year!
2008 TNT Schedule:
Thursday, July 10th - Coyote Loop - clockwise direction - Results
Thursday, July 17th - Coyote Loop - counter-clockwise direction - Results
Thursday, July 24th - Coyote Loop - clockwise direction - Results
Thursday, July 31st - Coyote Loop - counter-clockwise direction - Results
Thursday, August 14th - Coyote Loop - clockwise direction - Makeup for rain out of 1st TNT - Results
