Dear Fat Tire supporter,

By now many of you will have gotten an email from IMBA detailing an increase in basic membership rates from $30 to $35 a year.

We, on the GFTS board, wanted to send you a message personally about this increase. We want to let you know why we support the increase. A five dollar a year increase in membership for individual members means the ability for IMBA to continue and increase programs like Take a Kid Mountain Biking day or Trail Care Crew visits that benefit our chapter greatly. This will also be an increase in funds directly into trails in the Piedmont area, where we all ride.

This increase becomes effective in January and does not affect any other membership besides the lowest level basic membership. There are also ways to avoid this increase in membership support for your own membership. By setting your membership to auto renew you can keep your membership level at $30 until you have a break in membership.

For more information please visit the IMBA FAQ’s HERE .

While you are thinking about it,  Click here to renew or join now.

We hope that you will continue to support the Greensboro Fat Tire Society and IMBA through your membership. Now, especially, we need a strong unified voice for trails.

Thank you for your time. I hope to see you out on a trail soon.

Scott S.
GFTS President

The Guilford County Parks & Recreation Commission is meeting tonight. On the agenda is  a review of the Rich Fork Master Plan.

The legacy mountain bike trails near Northwood Elementary School in High Point are part of the Rich Fork property. There are folks that do not want mountain bike trails on this property and would like them removed from this plan and they are actively working to that end.

If you care about mountain biking trails, in High Point specifically and the Triad area overall, PLEASE come to this meeting and show your support! The more public support the commission sees the better. We need to make them understand that we want MTB trails included in the Rich Fork plan.

Guilford County Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting

October 13th, 2015 – 6:00 PM

1st Floor Blue Room, Old County Courthouse

301 West Market Street, Greensboro, NC

The Sizzler is fast approaching!

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There are 1,700 acres of taxpayer owned public property which we in the mountain bike community helped vote for to purchase.   It was supposed to enable us to have multi use trails similar to Reedy Fork.  (See bottom of e-mail from the original Open Space Charter).

The Mountain Bike community support of these bonds was significant but now we are being excluded.   Based on the turn-out for the public comment at Hagen Stone a year ago and the on-line survey for Rich Fork there are plans for considering to have mt. bike trails on the property many of you remember as Northwood Elementary School, which is now part of one of those preserves.

We need your help to do two things.

 1.) Vote on the first two websites below one for News & Record Survey and the other for the Triad City Beat.   Please be sure to do this it takes 15 seconds at the most. (Also provided are links for the biased reporting that doubts that mt. biking as a “surveyed” use was valid.)

2.) Attend the public input meeting in person this Thursday at 5:30-6:30 at the High Point Public Library, located at 901 N. Main Street, High Point, NC

It is very important that we get people who are taxpayers from High Point to attend, some have said that survey results done for the park were stacked by “non-High Point residents”.   It is not really relevant since it was purchased using Guilford County tax money.  If you want to ride in High Point, SHOW UP!

Thanks,

The Greensboro Fat Tire Board of Directors

http://www.greensboro.com/should-guilford-county-nature-preserves-being-used-for-mountain-biking/poll_df4a6630-18e5-11e5-a5e7-3b1acf0cdacc.html

Barometer: Mountain biking at Rich Fork Preserve?

http://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/susan-ladd-taypayers-should-decide-future-of-nature-preserves/article_1f536b3e-1691-11e5-b002-17eaeca2a980.html

Conservationist, recreational impulses clash in planned preserve

Open Space Charter is in Blue below.

The mt. bike community was a major supporter at the time of both the 2000 & 2004 bonds since it was supposed to include single track trail access. Specifically, the guiding principles we used to promote the bond were:

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• A focus on the multiple uses, functions and benefits of open space.
• Adherence to the concept of corridors and bubbles, such that, in thirty years, there will be strategically located open space bubbles or core areas throughout the county. Those core areas will be linked together by corridors, such as streams, greenways, bike trails, walking paths, or other linear connections to facilitate wildlife migration and recreation in core areas.
• Core areas will have uses appropriate for each site.”

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Thanks, and we'll see you on the trails soon!

It's May and time for your Greensboro Fat Tire Society spring meeting!

What: GFTS Spring Meeting

Where: Spice Cantina - 120 Barnhardt St, Greensboro, NC 27406

When: Monday May 11, 2015 - Doors open at 6pm, Meeting starts at 7pm. Come early and enjoy some great food and drink.

Lets get together and talk about what is going on with the club. Something you want to know? Let's hear it.

Pick up one (or more) new GFTS T-shirts, and stickers. We'll have plenty there.