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You can vote by scrolling down to the bottom of the page past our three candidates. VOTE TODAY Your Bicycle Coalition relies on our Board of Directors to help steer and guide the organization as we work towards our mission to Build Better Communities in the Valley using the Bicycle as a catalyst for change. The Board consists of up to eleven directors who each serve a three-year term. We especially want to thank Sandy Parks and Yogi Gillette for their service on the board over the past several years. Introducing our three Candidates for our Board of Directors Jess Pyle My name is ...

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Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition Waynesboro, Virginia 5/2/2023 Hello@SVBCoalition.org SVBCoalition.org/Sunset FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition is excited to announce a final trail plan for Sunset Park in Waynesboro, Virginia. The plan, developed through a Trails Accelerator Grant (TAG) with the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA), calls for over 4 miles of natural surface singletrack trails on the eastern portion of Waynesboro's soon-to-be-opened Sunset Park. "The Bicycle Coalition is grateful to have collaborated with the City of Waynesboro and IMBA to develop a shovel-ready plan for increasing access to trails and the outdoors," said Kyle Lawrence, Executive Director of ...

Our hearts are heavy. No one should lose their life while riding a bicycle. We pride ourselves on our safe roads, friendly drivers, and culture of slow-moving vehicles on the roads of Western Rockingham County. This tragic crash left us heartbroken. On Tuesday, April 11, Kenneth Zimmerman rode his bicycle east on Ottobine Rd, pedaling up a hill in Western Rockingham County. It was a warm spring morning when Kenneth was hit from behind and killed by the driver of an SUV. Kenneth and the vehicle's driver traveled east on Ottobine Rd Route 257. The crash ended Kenneth's life and hit ...

40 Years of the SVBC in the ValleyWith over forty years of working to make the Shenandoah Valley a better place to bike, walk, and live, the Coalition reflects on the past and looks to the future of trails, greenways, and initiatives to bring safe biking and walking to everyone. April 19 - Wednesday - Great Community Give When you support the Coalition, you're ensuring biking and walking are for everyone. The Great Community Give is a day of Giving where a rising tide lifts all boats (nonprofits) in the Shenandoah Valley.  From 6:30am to 8pm on April 19, you ...

Road Ridin - Ambassador from SVBCoalition on Vimeo. "It's a lot of fun to ride out here, and we'd love for you to join us." Riding on the bucolic rural roads of the Shenandoah Valley is a delight. Spring riding season is upon us, and Corrie Green and Scottie Pendleton dive into how you can be a better ambassador while riding your bike. Remember to smile and wave at those folks in a car when you are out on a bike. It goes a long way! Take the Lane? 🚲You should aim to find a balance between taking the space you ...

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Why a Trail Planning Process? Over the past several years, the Western Slope Trails have seen a dramatic increase in visitors. This community enthusiasm rides in on decades of hard work by trail-building volunteers and recent efforts to build a wider range of trail experiences. From beginner-friendly trails to downhill-optimized black diamond trails, we’ve started to build a broader range of trail experiences. In addition, our volunteers have dramatically improved our signage systems to make navigation easier. In many ways, the Western Slope trail system has been a fantastic opportunity and asset for the Bicycle Coalition. Located on land owned ...

Are you interested in serving on the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition Board of Directors? The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition is an established organization (40-year history) with strong grassroots support. Our board is active and engaged in growing our impact while strengthening your Coalition and invites you to join us. We are looking for candidates who will help further the Coalition's mission to build better communities in the Valley. If you are interested in starting the process to see if board service is right for you, please fill out our letter of interest at the bottom of this page. If you ...

As we wrap up 2022, we are asking for your support to help us Spread Pixie Dust in the Valley by supporting great projects like trails in your National Forest. Your support ensures everyone has access to safe accessible biking and walking. Can you help us reach our 2022 Pixie Dust goals by midnight on December 31? Please consider a donation to the Coalition. Donate Do you want your name on a bridge? We're looking for sponsors to help us make it happen (Contact US!). We're finally doing it! We're building a bridge for the Narrowback Trail! View the Bridge ...

No TitleNo Description Since its inception, we're excited to serve as a member of The Shenandoah Rail Trail Partnership. We're committed to helping create a Shenandoah Rail Trail. What is the Partnership? It is an exploratory partnership of local towns, business groups, and nonprofit organizations advocating for the construction of a 48.5-mile trail from Broadway to Front Royal. The trail would follow the path of a now-defunct rail line, and it has already passed a feasibility study conducted by the state. “The Shenandoah Valley is a really amazing place … but one thing we're really lacking is accessible opportunities for ...

Friendly City Trail Ribbon CuttingEveryone deserves the freedom to walk and bike as part of their daily life. Because of your support, the city of Harrisonburg, VA, invested in the biggest walk-bike project in the city's history! The Friendly City Trail connects three schools, two parks, and neighborhoods. Everyone deserves the freedom to walk and bike as part of their daily life. Because of your support, the city of Harrisonburg, VA, invested in the biggest walk-bike project in the city's history! The Friendly City Trail connects three schools, two parks, and neighborhoods. It is a big step toward a cohesive ...

As we wrap up 2022, we are asking for your support to help us Spread Pixie Dust in the Valley and ensure everyone has access to safe accessible biking and walking. Can you help us reach our 2022 Pixie Dust goals by midnight on December 31? Please consider a donation to the Coalition. Donate Greetings, valued friends of the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition, As another year draws to a close, I want to thank you for supporting the Coalition. Together, we have accomplished some great things this year and look forward to building on our success in the coming years ...

As we wrap up 2022, we are asking for your support to help us Spread Pixie Dust in the Valley and ensure everyone has access to safe accessible biking and walking. Can you help us reach our 2022 Pixie Dust goals by midnight on December 31? Please consider a donation to the Coalition. Donate Originally appeared on Pink Bike: East Bound and Down: Harrisonburg, Virginia Oct 12, 2017 by Brice Shirbach There is an ever-evolving narrative in mountain biking that has me excited: communities looking to our sport and community as an economic and social asset. It's a dynamic that we ...

As we wrap up 2022, we are asking for your support to help us Spread Pixie Dust in the Valley and ensure everyone has access to safe accessible biking and walking. Can you help us reach our 2022 Pixie Dust goals by midnight on December 31? Please consider a donation to the Coalition. Donate Originally published on Notubes.com STAN’S CONNECTION SPOTLIGHT: SHENANDOAH VALLEY BICYCLE COALITION BUILDS A BETTER BIKING COMMUNITY Riders in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia are lucky to enjoy many fantastic on and off-road cycling opportunities. Many of those are thanks to the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition, a regional ...

As we wrap up 2022, we are asking for your support to help us Spread Pixie Dust in the Valley and ensure everyone has access to safe accessible biking and walking. Can you help us reach our 2022 Pixie Dust goals by midnight on December 31? Please consider a donation to the Coalition Donate How a group in Virginia unlocked historic funding for trails Originally posted on IMBA.com The final installment in a three-part series on amplifying the collective voices of mountain bikers to influence policy. Read Parts One and Two. In 2022 the General Assembly of Virginia allocated the ...

Community // SVBC's Rail-to-Trail projectKyle Lawrence of the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition describes an exciting new project in our area. The plan is to buy the defunct rail line that runs from Broadway to Front Royal, and turn it into a one-of-a-kind trail. The project is still in the planning phase, but Kline May is supporting the effort as a way to improve our community. Community // SVBC's Rail-to-Trail projectKyle Lawrence of the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition describes an exciting new project in our area. The plan is to buy the defunct rail line that runs from Broadway to Front ...

Friendly City Trail - Ribbon Cutting - HarrisonburgThis is "Friendly City Trail - Ribbon Cutting - Harrisonburg" by SVBCoalition on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them ...

Everyone Deserves the Freedom to Bike and Walk – Support the Coalition’s Efforts to Build Better Communities in the Valley Help us make the Shenandoah Valley a community where walking and biking are safe and accessible for people of all ages and abilities. Your donation will support the advocacy, education, and inspirational activities the Coalition does throughout the year. Thank you! The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Your donation is tax-deductible (you will receive a confirmation receipt via email). If you would like to donate by cash or check, send your donation by mail to: Shenandoah Valley Bicycle ...

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Click to Read the full job posting JOB DESCRIPTION: The Community Engagement Coordinator will report to the Executive Director and will be responsible for engaging the Coalition’s wide network of volunteers and advocates to further the Coalition’s mission. In addition, the position will be responsible for helping plan and execute marketing and branding activities at the Coalition. Responsibilities may include but are not limited to email marketing, digital marketing, event marketing, fundraising marketing, content marketing, copywriting, and campaign execution. The Community Engagement Coordinator will spend at least half their time fostering and expanding our network of grassroots volunteers and advocates, ...

River to Ridgetop Trail – North Fork Shenandoah River to Massanutten Mountain Connection (Seven Bends State Park and the GW National Forest) The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition is excited to announce the award of our fifth Virginia Recreational Trails Program Grant (RTP) to continue improving trails on public lands. For this project, we are spreading the trail love and pixie dust into Shenandoah County for improvements to Seven Bends State Park and the Lee District of the George Washington National Forest. Our last RTP grant improved trails on Narrowback Mountain along Tillman Road. The program funding is administered by the ...

Massanutten Western Slope Trail Building with Sam SkidmoreLocal trail hero, Sam Skidmore talks about the Western Slope and his work to build more trails in our local trail lab. You can learn more about he Western Slope and obtain a trail pass through Westernslopetrails.org ...

The Big Dig Day is a volunteer trail-building event on the Western Slope of Massanutten. Volunteers will work together to build new trails and or maintain existing trails.  This is more than a volunteer day! It will be a fun, family-friendly day in the woods with friends old and new! Bonus… you can earn your annual Western Slope trail pass volunteer hours in a single day! Prior trail building experience is NOT necessary. On-site training and instruction will be provided so volunteers can work safely, confidently, and effectively. What: A celebration of our volunteers while we highlight our trail improvements ...

From now until the end of September the Coalition will hold Thursday evening volunteer dig days on the Massanutten Western Slope Trail. To begin the season we will meet at the "U" Intersection to work on the extension of Red, White, and Blue. Look for our red “Trail Work” Signs and stay tuned to WesternSlopeTrails.org for any location changes. Thursdays: 5pm until Dark Join us every Thursday for Massanutten Western Slope Volunteer Dig Days. Everyone is welcome and you can follow our red trail work signs to the worksite.Thursday Work Party Contacts-Contact Hello@SVBCoalition.org or call/text-Karl Waizecker (540) 810-7277——————————————–-When: Thursday evenings ...

We want your images! Help us restock our image library with high-res shots of the Shenandoah Valley area riding, digging, or simply loving the bicycle/trail/road/gravel lifestyle. All usable submissions earn a chance to win a $25 Gift Card to a local bike shop of your choice! Fine print By submitting an image, Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition has the right to use that image in any print, web, social media or other formats. We will give photo credits whenever possible.Images must be a minimum of 300 dpi. Shots from an smartphone can be high-resolution depending on the camera settings.Image content should ...

Volunteer Trail Maintenace Day for the North River District of the George Washington National Forest. We will base out of Stokesville Campground and make this an annual tradition to bring together a range of individuals, organizations, and businesses to give back and support trails on the National Forest. We are looking for individuals and organizations who might be interested in helping plan, organize, and implement this event with us and other stakeholders. If you are interested please reach out to us Collaborative National Forest Trail Clean Up Day | MeetupDetails Volunteer Trail Maintenace Day for the North River District of ...

Your Input Shapes Our Future Did you know most transportation projects are planned 10-25 years in advance? We are always playing a long game here and need your help.Our regional long-range transportation plan identifies priority transportation projects. Specifically, transportation needs for Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Dayton, Mount Crawford, and the surrounding parts of Rockingham County 25 years out. Here at the Bicycle Coalition, we work to ensure our streets and roads work for all users, especially the most vulnerable among us. Vulnerable road users are those folks traveling without the protection of a motor vehicle. The most vulnerable among us include people ...

2022 Board Election Update: We have postponed our 2022 elections until later in the year. For more details on why we postponed the election read a letter from the Coalition's Board of Directors. Building Better Communities in the Valley Interested in applying? Here’s what you need to knowWe are a growing organization with strong grassroots support. Our board is active and engaged in making your Coalition stronger and more effective every day. Please fill out our letter of interest at the bottom of this page if you would like to run for a seat on our board. We ask that ...

This update was originally sent on Friday, January 21 2022 by Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley on behalf of Shenandoah Rail Trail Partnership of which the Bicycle Coalition is a member. A lot has happened in the last month, bringing the Shenandoah Rail Trail much closer to reality. But we need your help to make sure we don’t lose any ground in the General Assembly. As you may remember, in late 2020 the General Assembly directed state agencies to conduct a feasibility study for the trail. That study is complete and available here. Not only did the study find the ...

I rode my bike to Hillandale with our four-year-old last week. It was the first time he had ridden from our house to the Rocktown Trails all on his own. It filled my heart with warmth and joy. We pedaled together down Liberty St in Downtown Harrisonburg, taking the entire right lane and riding over top of painted sharrows and past signs that read "Bikes May Use Full Lane." He was elated. While eager to ride the dirt and rock trails in Hillandale Park, he was equally proud and excited to ride with his dad on the road rather than ...

As we wrap up 2021, we are asking for your support to help us Spread Pixie Dust in the Valley and ensure everyone has access to safe accessible biking and walking. Can you help us reach our 2021 Pixie Dust goals before January 1? We are asking our members and our broader network to support our campaign and please consider a donation to help us continue Building Better Communities in the Valley. Donate Greeting, friends of the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition! This year has absolutely flown by, and it's hard to believe that I'm here writing another year-end letter to ...

Friends like YOU provide the support and partnerships fueling the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition's impact. We need YOUR help to ensure bicycling and walking in the valley is for everyone. Will YOU become a champion to ensure all of us have access to trails, greenways, and safe spaces to bike? As we wrap up 2021, we are asking for your support to help us Spread Pixie Dust in the Valley and ensure everyone has access to safe accessible biking and walking. Can you help us reach our 2021 Pixie Dust goals before January 1? We are asking our members and ...

Joy, Community, and Pixie Dust Together, we are reclaiming our streets, trails, and public places for current and future generations of walkers and riders. Please consider helping us continue spreading pixie dust through trails, friendships, bicycles, volunteerism, and community. If you are in a position to donate and help spread the pixie dust we are grateful for any level of support. Facebook is matching up to $8 million on a first come - first serve basis. If you are interested in a reasonable chance to have your gift matched please try to donate as close to or just after 8 ...

Donate As we wrap up 2021 we ask you to consider helping us continue spreading Pixie Dust through the Valley with a contribution. After all, change can be playful and we can reclaim space for people walking and biking. In 2021 your Coalition created another new collection of trails on Massanutten's Western Slope. Like last year, 2021 continued our focus on trail connections near the trailhead to provide visitors with a fun and engaging "green/blue" trail experience. Happy Hour 2021 brought the creation of the "Happy Hour" trail and the Red White and Blue Trail extension. Both complemented and added ...