VMBA

STAB 2018 - The Season Rises Party!
2018-04-15 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | The Maple Kitchen, Brownsville, Vermont, 05037
Members and friends – it’s kickoff time!
This year our friends at the Maple Kitchen will be hosting our annual spring member meeting – with hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, Matt’s sweet stoke video library, and more!
You’ll be able to sign up for your 2018 member benefits package on site.
We’ll have a gear swap’n’sell, so bring your old stuff and pick up new treasures. By stuff, we mean bike bits and the winter equipment you don’t want to put in storage. (Full bikes, please leave in your car and bring in a picture. And if no one takes it, it’s still yours ok?)
Hear about our plans for this year – we’re going big!
$10 suggested donation at the door – start the season off right by helping us pay for those cheese plates!

Season Kickoff Party and FTW Bike Raffle Drawing
2018-04-19 16:30 - 19:00 | The Alchemist, 100 Cottage Club Road, Stowe, VT, 05672, United States
Back by popular demand, the STP x Alchemist Spring Kickoff Party! Join us Thursday April 19 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. to enjoy a few of the world’s finest libations alongside all of your closest riding pals.
Our peeps at VMBA will be hand to get you signed up for your 2018 membership, and anyone that purchases a membership that night gets two, count ’em two complementary drink tickets!
And if that’s not enough to get you in the door, we’ll also be announcing the winner of coveted FTW Bike Raffle, in addition to a host of rad consolation prizes. So mark your calendars and we’ll see you at The Alchemist on 4/19!

CTC Trail Work, Grill and Chill
2018-04-21 | Vermont
Join VMBA’s newest chapter, Caledonia Trail Collaborative, for thier first trail day of the season.

The Caledonia Trail Collaborative is a volunteer-driven non-profit chapter of the VT Mountain Bike Association (VMBA). Building and maintenance of trails requires a ton of work, and we need your help! 2017 was awesome, culminating in the opening of 1.5 miles of new singletrack. We want to make 2018 even better by dialing in the flow of existing trails as well as expanding our network.
THE THIRD SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH from April through November will be our trail work days. Mark these on your calendar and plan to help us make the NEK more awesome through trails. Specific projects for each work day will be announced on this thread as we get closer. You bring work gloves and we’ll bring the tools and grillables for after!
PLEASE NOTE- The address listed here is for the landowners’ house. Please do not park there. Our trailhead is approximately 200 yards west of their house. You will see a gravel parking lot.

1st Annual Great GraVelo
2018-04-21 09:30 | Great GraVELO, 22 Old Main St, Jeffersonville, VT, 05464, United States
Welcome to the 1st annual Great GraVelo gravel ride. The views and scenery in the Jeffersonville, Cambridge, and Fletcher area warrants an invitation to explore our phenomenal gravel roads. The ride will be ~25mi of gravel connected with short sections of pavement followed up with some great food and bevies.

All proceeds will benefit the start of a Cambridge Community Center kids bike park.
Registration includes T-shirt, local food, and a beverage. Register at: https://www.bikereg.com/the-great-gravelo

Millstone Trail Work Day #1
2018-04-22 08:00 - 12:00 | Millstone Trails, 44 Brook Street, Websterville, Vermont, 05678
This is our first trail work day of the season, and will consist mostly of all around clean up. Come on out and join us for a morning in the woods. Many hands make light work.

North Star Sports Bike Swap
2018-04-28 | North Star Sports, Burlington, Vermont
It’s that time of the year again! North Star Sports Annual Bike Swap is back for 2018 on April 28th from 10am to 6pm. Get your old bike cleaned up and down to North Star Sports between April 1st and the 28th to be entered in our big event. Come with a predetermined sale price or have one of their bicycle technicians offer some sage wisdom on how much you could get!

Ascutney Trails Work Day
2018-04-28 08:30 - 12:00 | Vermont
Please come help us get Ascutney Trails ready for the upcoming season and the 2018 Vermont Mountain Bike Festival! Meet at The Climb (223 Hotel Road, Brownsville) then head out on the trails to pick up sticks and note any areas needing a chainsaw. Please bring work gloves, leaf blowers, leaf rakes, water, and snacks!
For questions, please contact Jim Lyall at jim.lyall@me.com

Mobbs Trail Day (Changed from Sunny Hollow)
2018-04-28 09:00 - 12:00 | Vermont
FYI… Location for this trail day is now Mobbs.

Muddy Onion Spring Classic Gravel Road Ride
2018-04-28 09:30 - 17:00 | Vermont
Join Onion River Outdoors and the Montpelier Area Mountain Bike Association on Saturday, April 28th for the 6th Annual Muddy Onion Spring Classic gravel ride! This event has become an unofficial Vermont “Sign of Spring” and what better way to shake off the long winter chill than joining 500 kindred spirits on a noncompetitive gravel road ride through the meandering hills and hollows in picturesque Central Vermont. Choose from the full 38-mile loop that takes you through the quaint town of Adamant and along the shores of Bliss Pond and Mirror Lake or take it a little easier with the 21-mile Hibernator loop, a shortcut that shares in the maple syrup-coated fun of the Adamant aid station and then shoots you back to town with classic North Street vistas of Camel’s Hump and the mountains of the Mad River Valley. Awaiting riders at the finish will be a full barbeque with meat and veggie options provided by local farms and bakeries, and most importantly, rehydrating libations from our friends at Harpoon Brewery and the Alchemist! Lodging and restaurant options abound in and around Montpelier, Vermont’s capital city and the nation’s smallest at just 8000 residents.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Montpelier Area Mountain Bike Association’s North Branch Trails Project mountain bike trail initiative and the Catamount Trail Association.

The cost is just $45 for the whole shebang: the ride, food, and drink. Youth and meal-only options at $20.

https://www.facebook.com/events/126387251519851/

https://www.bikereg.com/muddy-onion-spring-classic

DisasTOUR VII
2018-04-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Vermont
DisasTOUR is a fun, multi-sport event that tours through Rochester, Hancock and Granville, Vermont. First staged in 2011 just weeks after Tropical Storm Irene, the Disas-Tour was created as a way to boost community morale, celebrate the resilience of the towns, and raise money for flood relief.

More info at: http://www.rastavt.org/disastour-2/

STP Annual Meeting 2018
2018-04-28 15:30 - 17:00 | von Trapp Brewinr Bierhall, 1333 Luce Hill Rd, Stowe, Vermont, 05672
Riding seasons is just around the corner so join us on Saturday April 28 for a rundown on your trails, the Cady Hill rebuilding effort and all the other fun stuff on tap for 2018. Oh yeah, and it’s at the von Trapp Brewing Bierhall.

WATA Trail Day
2018-04-29 09:00 - 14:00 | Perry Hill, River Rd, Waterbury, VT, 05676
Join us as we work to get the trails at Perry Hill open for the season. No experience necessary, just come ready to work and help clean up the trails as we get ready for the season!
New this year, thanks to VT Beer Shepherd we’ll be drinking delicious craft beer at the end of each trail day!
