Kona Mt. Bike Adventure Series comes to CT on June 22

[Paula]

I hope to see all of you at the first Mt. Bike Adventure Series at Huntington State Park! We have demos, BBQ, skills areas, led rides for all skill levels, marked loops, Don't miss it. For local contact, email peburton@aol.com.


Kona Bicycles Mountain Bike Adventures Series at Huntington State Park in Redding , CT

Recreational MTB Ride to Benefit the Trails on June 22nd, 2008

Redding, CT : The Connecticut Chapter of the New England Mountain Bike Assocaition (NEMBA) announces that they will hold a benefit mountain bike ride at Colin P. Huntington State Park in Redding , Connecticut on Sunday, June 22nd. The non-competitive, recreational bike ride will help raise funds for trail improvements at this park.

Come explore this park along marked loops for all levels of riders, from hardcore enthusiasts to family and kids. There will be bicycle demos available from Kona Bicycles, Eastern Mountain Sports, Cannondale and Iron Horse. Campmor Women's Race Team will be holding a woman's mountain bike skills clinic, and there will skills area for riders to practices their techniques. To top things off, competitive BBQ-ist, Jaime Schier, will be offering post-ride BBQ as a benefit to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

CT NEMBA has a long tradition of caring for and building singletrack trails at Huntington and the mountain bike riding in this park is great.

Registration for the event begins at 9am and runs until 11am. There will be lead rides in the morning or participants can follow the marked course at their leasure.

For more information, visit www.NEMBA.org or call 800-576-3622

[Gimpy00Wang]

My wife and I will see you there!

- Chris

[Superbman]

Back in 1999 I lived in Bethel, CT (in the Plumtree Heights townhouses to be exact)-I must have rode Collis P. Huntington's fine state park 3 times a week (and also Tarrywile--is that still a going concern??).. Back then it was mostly the double track around the ponds (and the few steep grinders), that steep hiking/ single track that went up through the laurels and down to one of the ponds, and a host of guerrilla single track off of dodgington rode-there was one old teeter totter and a number of fun features.

I understand that there has been ample singletrack expansion since 1999 (I haven't ridden it since then) and I'm looking forward to seeing how it has grown.

Should be a good event!

Liam

[Paula]

Great, we'll see you all there!

[Superbman]

Hey paula,

how many miles of single track does huntington have now anyway?? Will the expert loop encompass all (most) of it?

Liam

[Paula]

I don't really know how many mile of singletrack. We just put another 5 miles of singletrack on the official map last year ( renegade trails). And there is a bunch more. The Rock -n-Roll trail is 1 mile long, but you don't ride fast on it. The expert loop is mostly singletrack and with a bit of the carriage road to get you to the next good trail. You'll ride on new stuff and old stuff. We've done some work on the old stuff, so it is probably a bit different from when you last rode there. I am working on the loops right now.

[TheHare]

KONA DEMO BIKES... BBQ, skills areas, led rides for all skill levels, marked loops, Don't miss it!

[Gimpy00Wang]

Sadly, I am going to miss it and I really, really, really wanted to go. I have to go to PA a day early (Sat) so no BBQ (and riding) for me. :(

- Chris