Our August Gainesville SORBA Chapter meeting will be another Meet and Ride.  Meet at the Chicopee MTB Trailhead at 6:30 PM and we’ll have a short meeting then ride the trails.  Afterwards we’ll go to El Sombrero for dinner.

In case the trails are closed we’ll meet at Elachee Nature Center down the road from the Chicopee MTB trails.  Come join us and find out what’s going on and how you can get involved with Gainesville SORBA and the Chicopee Woods MTB trails!

We had a good turnout despite the cold weather and collected well over 200 items and $25 that were donated to the Georgia Mountain Food Bank.

Charge up your lights – It’s night riding season!  Night rides start up Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at Chicopee Woods MTB trails!  We’ll meet at the main MTB trail parking lot at 6:30 PM sharp.

The complete night ride schedule and policy can be found here.

Please Note: Night riding at Chicopee is only allowed during sanctioned group rides. Anyone caught riding at Chicopee after dark is in violation of Gainesville City laws and also puts sanctioned night rides in jeopardy for the rest of us.

Thanks for everyone that came out to the grand opening of the new Flying Squirrel trail at Chicopee!  We had a big group ride out to the Flying Squirrel where we had a ribbon cutting then rode the trail.  In the middle of  the trail we ran into a black snake trying to have a chipmonk for lunch!  Back at the tail head we grilled some hot dogs and hung out for awhile.  Thanks to Eric and Sandy Watson and Deli Provisions of Northeast Georgia for donating the hot dogs.

New trail signs.

Joe Polk, Gainesville SORBA President and Connie Ringer, Chicopee Woods Park Commissioner cutting the ribbon at the Flying Squirrel.

Snake working on a little lunch!

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.