Author: Kyle

SVBC Needs Your Support for Rockingham County Bike-Ped Plan

Wednesday February 27 at 6pm is the scheduled vote on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan Right now the Rockingham County Board of Supervisor’s vote to fund a county-wide Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan is scheduled for February 27 at 6pm. We need your help to encourage the Board of Supervisors to fund this plan. We need…
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February 24, 2013 0

A Week in the Hills

Three intrepid ‘Burgsmen took to the converted railroad bed running between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.  for a wild close-to-home 325-mile six-day bicycle adventure earlier this month. Nate Shearer captures the trip in words and images on his beautiful blog, Soil Sample:  “We knew from the very first night we were in for an adventure. . .…
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February 24, 2013 0

Bryce Resort to Open Mountain Bike Park

Exciting news for mountain biking in the Shenandoah Valley. Bryce Resort will open up the Valley’s first lift access mountain bike park this summer. From the Northern Virginian Daily on February 22, 2013: Construction will begin at the conclusion of ski season; trails should open in June  By Linda Ash Area mountain bikers will have…
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February 24, 2013 2

Action Alert from League of American Bicyclists

Transportation agencies across the country are about to miss an important opportunity to improve non-motorized traffic safety and encourage healthy and active transportation options. The US Department of Transportation is required by the new transportation law to establish national safety goals and performance measures to guide the states. Right now, they are NOT proposing any…
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February 19, 2013 0

Action Alert from VA Bicycling Federation

Click here and please help get this bill through the Virginia General Assembly: http://www.vabike.org/sb1060-lets-give-it-our-best-shot/ Summary as introduced: Following too closely; passing other vehicles. Includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reasonable. The bill also…
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February 18, 2013 0

Anonymous Matches Picnic-Shelter Donations!

Okay folks…as you may be aware, we have among us a high school junior who is ROCKING THE WORLD…. SVBC member Harrison Naftel is building an outdoor shelter on the Western Slope of Massanutten as his Eagle Project, for us and all our friends (with trail passes of course*) to use FOR DECADES TO COME. Massanutten…
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February 16, 2013 0

DR100 Donates 31 Bikes for Bike Smart Program

The below article is from the: Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA) February 7, 2013 Section: News (Local) Driver’s Ed Class Picks Up Speed EMILY SHARRER PENN LAIRD – Standing in front of Spotswood High School Wednesday, as students and faculty zipped past on 31 new mountain bikes, Turner Ashby High School physical education teacher Cindy Ferek looked around…
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February 15, 2013 0

Superbowl Sunday…The oldest group ride in the Shenandoah Valley

February 3rd was the twenty something annual Superbowl Sunday Ride. While we can’t pin down the first year of the Superbowl ride we know it started sometime in the 1980s and has had a cult following ever since. In fact old Mountain Bike Virginia guidebooks always mentioned Harrisonburg and the Superbowl ride in the same…
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February 15, 2013 1

Shaws Ridge Trail

Brand new post from our friends at Playing Outside in the Shenandoah Valley! “Sometimes the most epic of rides are done only once” — Johnny Youngdalh “Shaws Ridge is another of those trails we saw on a map and decided we had to go check out.  Being another trail that Marshall had never been on…
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February 11, 2013 0

Annual SVBC Potluck – Monday, Feb. 11, 6 pm!

Bring a dish to share and remember that we will start at 6:00 (dinner time!) rather than our usual time of 7:30. We will have a very brief period of updates but mostly will eat and socialize. Same spot as our monthly SVBC social meeting:  Ruby’s –the basement of Clementine Cafe— Harrisonburg, VA. Come celebrate…
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February 10, 2013 0