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Hard Working Mother of Two Makes Strides to Get More Women on Mountain Bikes

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When you think of mountain biking, places like Indiana may not intuitively pop into your head. I recently discovered Indiana does indeed have great mountain biking, but more importantly, it has a woman on a mission to grow the sport. Tania Juillerat decided to try mountain biking in March 2005 at the ripe age of 26. She hadn’t ridden a bike since she was 12, and that first taste of dirt had her hooked and wanting more. Struggling to find [...]
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Learning to Fly :: A Girl’s First Dirt Jump

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I straddled my bike in line on the mound of dirt just behind a boy I guessed to be around 12. Too-big jeans slung low. Stretched out t-shirt. School was out for the summer and the neighborhood pack had converged at the bike park that evening, loitering until their moms called them home for supper. The bigger boys launched off the tops of what seemed to me to be mammoth-sized jumps to the left, the smaller boys rolling the smaller [...]
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IMBA Working for Better Trail Connectivity at Cuyahoga Valley National Park

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This week, IMBA submitted its formal comments for the Draft Trail Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, OH. The roughly 20,000-acre park reclaims the land between Cleveland and Akron, OH, is the only national park in Ohio. As a former national recreation area, Cuyahoga is a virtual outdoor playground for the residents of these two population centers, featuring a robust trail network as its most popular asset. The Draft Trails Management Plan offers new trail [...]
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IMBA Announces Sessions and Speakers for Santa Fe World Summit

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For Immediate Release 8-16-2012Contact mark [dot] eller [at] imba [dot] com (Mark Eller)IMBA Communications Director303-545-9011 ext. 115 With two months to go before the sixth biennial IMBA World Summit (Oct. 10-13 in Santa Fe, NM), the organization has released a full schedule of speakers and sessions. “We received exceptional proposals for summit content,” said IMBA Executive Director Mike Van Abel. “At this point, the strongest applications have been selected and the speakers have been notified. Mountain bike leaders from around [...]
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Life Time Supports IMBA at 2012 Leadville Trail 100 MTB

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For Immediate Release 8-13-2012Contact mark [dot] eller [at] imba [dot] com (Mark Eller)IMBA Communications Director303-545-9011 ext. 115 At the opening ceremonies (August 10) for this year’s Leadville Trail 100 MTB, Life Time chairman, president and chief executive officer Bahram Akradi presented the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) with a check for $20,600 from the Leadville Qualifying Series events to support IMBA’s mission of new and better trails for mountain biking. “We’re honored to partner with IMBA as its mission mirrors [...]
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