10/8 9:00am UPDATE- Online Registration is CLOSED but we still have plenty of room for registration. You can register at the festival pavilion anytime this weekend. We hope to see you out there. If you have any last minute questions about registration then please contact Jason Burch (burch1428@gmail.com) 19th Annual Shenandoah Mountain Bike Festival October…
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The long awaited Hillandale Power Line Trail is about to get expanded but help is needed this Saturday (9/26) to prep the corridor. Due to the Harrisonburg International festival we will access trail work from the South Ave entrance. Meet at the Mr. J’s on Route 42 South at 9pm or on the power line…
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Project Under Design: In 2015, the City of Harrisonburg and James Madison University were awarded $364,500 from Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) Revenue Sharing funds to extend the Bluestone Trail from Sonner Hall to Carrier Drive on JMU campus. The City is administering the project and JMU is providing matching funds in the amount of…
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We need your help! We need a few more volunteers to help pour beer at the Alpine Loop Gran Fondo this weekend. ALL the proceeds from the beer garden will go to support the SVBC. Please come out and help us pour beer for the fondo riders. This is a great fundraiser for the SVBC…
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Invitation for Bid Sponsoring Agency: Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC) Project Title: North River Trail Enhancements Phase 2 (NRTE-2)State Project Number: NRT-11FY (001) & NRT–13FY (001) – VRT-257 Seeking Bids for Construction of parking lot. The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC) is seeking bids for construction of a parking lot that will be used…
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The 19th annual Shenandoah Mountain Bike Festival is a go for October 9-11th.! Registration is open but to make things really happen we need to line up our volunteers now! Take a look at the 2015 Festival Volunteer Sheet and email Thomas (tj@shenandoahbicycle.com) with where you want to help. This is a 100% volunteer event….Meaning put on…
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This Saturday Luray Caverns CX kicks off regional cyclocross racing right in our backyard. Take advantage of your #SM100 fitness, or get a tune-up before #RocktownCyclocross comes to town next month! Racing action kicks off at 9:30 with Mens 4/5, and the main event Mens Pro/1/2/3 is at 2:30, with categories for everyone else in between.…
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There’s a local organization who wants to purchase a new bike rack, but buying just one bike rack is expensive. Has your work place, business, school, organization, or church found yourself in these same shoes? Or perhaps you don’t even know where to buy a bike rack? Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC) is facilitating a bulk…
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The George Washington National Forest remains a hot topic in local news, from fracking to pipelines, it seems that our forest has been on the front page quite often the past two years. Now that we finally have a new Forest Management plan that delicately handles the fracking issue, we can get on with actual…
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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been a hot topic of discussion up and down the valley for the past year. The proposed route runs through our George Washington National Forest, where many SVBC members are intimately familiar. The pipeline may or may not be a necessary product of our developing world but either way, the…
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