The Trail Journal
Stories from the dirt.
Bike shop profiles, ride reports, trail updates, and the PFTS newsletter archive.
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Club News
Knobby Knews - May/June 2023
Knobby Knews - May/June 2023
May 11, 2023
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Club News
Rich Fork Progress
The Greensboro News & Record has a couple recent articles on the Rich Fork Nature Preserve. Take a few minutes to read: July 1, 2017 August 5, 2017
Jul 3, 2017
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Club News
Church St. Parking eliminated.
Please be aware that on street parking on Church Street, (Blue Heron and Reedy Fork trailheads) has been eliminated. You may park in the lot south of there on Church Street and use the Peninsula Trail to loop down to Church Street. We recommend that the Richardson Taylor Preserve parking lot on Plai
Feb 11, 2017
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Club News
We are now the Piedmont Fat Tire Society...
We are changing the name to Piedmont Fat Tire Society to better reflect the area of North Carolina we serve.
Apr 2, 2016
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Club News
REMINDER: GFTS 2016 Annual Meeting This Monday
Come out to the Greensboro Fat Tire Society Annual Meeting THIS MONDAY EVENING. What: Greensboro Fat Tire Society Annual Meeting.Where: The Worx - 106 Barnhardt St., GreensboroWhen: Monday, February 8th, 2016 6pm - 10pm, Meeting will start at 7pm Note: original location has move from Spice Cantina t
Jan 18, 2016
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Club News
Happy Holidays!
The GFTS board would like to take this opportunity to thank you for a great 2015 and wish you Happy Holidays. As 2015 draws to a close and we begin to make plans and resolutions for 2016 let us not forget to give as well as receive. While we are thankful for the new wheels,…
Dec 21, 2015
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Club News
County Commissioners Meeting Update
Thanks to those that came out to the County Commission meeting Thursday evening. A special thanks to those that spoke about what Mountain Biking really is and what it means to our community. Click here to read a balanced article about the meeting. It's refreshing after reading the biased 'journalism
Dec 4, 2015
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Club News
Important - County Commissioners meeting Thursday. We all need to show up!
With all of the rain you can’t ride on the trails, so skip the gym or the stationary trainer and help determine what you will or won’t ride for the rest of your life in Guilford County. We need a HUGE show of force for this Thursday’s Commissioners meeting. At 5:30 pm, even if you…
Dec 1, 2015
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Club News
IMBA Basic Membership
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…
Nov 6, 2015
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Club News
Guilford County Parks & Recreation meeting tonight
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 th
Oct 13, 2015
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Club News
18th Sizzler Race - Sunday August 9, 2015
The Sizzler is fast approaching! We need volunteers to help out on race weekend. If you want to help out click here to volunteer. - THANK YOU! If you are planning on racing click here to register .
Jul 29, 2015
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Club News
Important - Please Read Now and Act
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 o
Jun 23, 2015