FINALLY! Beverly MTB Time Trail Sat. Aug 27th 9AM
Late notice but it is happening. Time Trial at Beverly Park Saturday Morning Aug 27th.
Registration starts at 9AM.
Kids hit the course at 10AM.
Adults hit the course at 10:30ish.
Kids course has a choice depending on the parents. Trail 1 (small kids loop) or Trail 2 (Frontside loop). Kids loops are free.
The map for the full loop will be released this week sometime. Only 3 trails were skipped to create the longest loop possible in the park without crossover or 2 way traffic down singletrack. Full loop is $5/person.
We need a few course marshals and volunteers to help tape the course Saturday morning. We also need some racers so spread the word.
Don’t forget about the Sugarbottom Scramble on Sunday.
Time Trial Map
Scramble and Time Trial timelines
August 23, 2011
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Dirt Trails Discussion LCTA Meeting August 8 7PM
Don’t forget, dirt is on the LCTA agenda, Monday night at 7 pm. Location below. This is an excellent opportunity to show your support for local dirt.
Parking lot on 14th street across from the church.
Go in front door and proceed up the stairs.
Go through first set of double doors.
Go left down two flights of stairs.
At bottom of stairs turn right.
Room 117 is on the first left through the double doors.
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Make yourself seen and heard. Come out to see the presentation by Michelle Barker at the LCTA meeting on August 8 at 7PM. Michelle will be discussing the benefits of dirt trails.
We want NEED you to support your local trails and this is a good opportunity.
St Paul’s United Methodist Church
1340 3rd Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, IA
Don’t forget, dirt is on the LCTA agenda, Monday night at 7 pm. Location below. This is an excellent opportunity to show your support for local dirt.
Parking lot on 14th street across from the church.
Go in front door and proceed up the stairs.
Go through first set of double doors.
Go left down two flights of stairs.
At bottom of stairs turn right.
Room 117 is on the first left through the double doors.
August 4, 2011
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Farmers’ Market Help – Saturday!
LAMBA is parking bikes at the Farmer’s Market on August 6th in Greene Square Park from 7:30-12. We NEED VOLUNTEERS! Even if you can only help for a short time, it will be appreciated. This is a great opportunity to talk to people about dirt and share our work! Contact Michelle and let her know what time works for you.
Also, dirt will be on the agenda at the August 8th LCTA meeting @ 7pm at ST. PAUL’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 1340 3RD AVE SE. Come show your support for dirt!
August 2, 2011
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Trail Work @ Beverly Saturday AM… Early!
Those interested in beating the heat are welcome to join us trail working crazies @ 8am this Saturday… we will move from the front side through the gate off 21st Street to the Drop Trail 17 area where we will unload donated materials for construction of a berm.
Other projects include:
- Mowing / trimming of designated trails.
- Debris removal from trail tread in all areas.
- Pruning of materials protruding into trail corridors.
- Chainsaw trees that are low hanging / blocking trails.
- De-berming trails, allowing water to leave tread (training required).
As always, dress appropriately for the weather and being in the woods… hat, gloves, sunblock, bug spray, and water are highly recommended.
Update:
- Some downed and leaning trees were taken out of contention.
- We were able to get one more truck load of dirt to the Drop Trail 17 berm, began raining which made it quite the feat.
- The old farm road and some more trails were mowed.
Thanks everyone for showing up and helping out!
Please keep in mind that the trails are we and in POOR condition, riding them WILL cause damage, especially in the areas of recent work activity.
July 21, 2011
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Family Ride/Picnic @ Beverly Park Sunday, July 17 4-7pm
Family Mountain Bike Ride/Picnic @ Beverly Park Sunday, July 17 4-7pm
This is going to be similar to our Wednesday night rides. Bring some brats, hot dogs, burgers, or whatever you want to throw on the grill. Sounds like it will be a warm night so bring plenty to drink also. The parking area at this time should be shaded but we will also set up a tent if we need some more shade.
All levels of rider are welcome and we will have people leading groups to show them around the park. Bring the kids so they can roam the Kid’s Loop, play in the open field, and explore the Frontside Loop all within earshot of the parking lot. The trails are really great shape after the rains earlier this week.
July 15, 2011
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Informal trail work / clean up – FRIDAY, July 15!
Was able to spend some time at Beverly over the past few days and one thing I am certain of is that the trails are in need of a little love (i.e. loppers, debris clearing, mowing in some spots, etc.)
My plan is to be out there all day Friday, if anyone would like to join please show up / reply… will share my cell with interested persons so I can be found if / when said persons arrive to lend some time…
Thanks!
Ken
http://lambaonline.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1631
July 14, 2011
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Beverly Park Workday 7/9 9:30AM
Beverly workday Saturday July 9. Start time 9:30 am, sandwiches at noon.
Two projects:
- install barrier fence posts east end of south meadow
- cut oriental bittersweet vines killing trees east end
Rob will pick up fence posts to drive into the east end of the south meadow to stop trucks
- We need a volunteer to head this project up.
Rob will lead a crew into the east end of the park near trails 14, 15 etc to go after the oriental bittersweet that is killing (crowning) many trees. Mainly a project with loppers and maybe a small chain saw. It is really bad and we don’t want to let them go to seed.
If there is some mowing to do, somebody could tackle that also.
July 7, 2011
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Wednesday Night Ride picture
I don’t know everybody but I can at least name a few. Click on the image to make it bigger. Email epenne@gmail.com to get the names corrected.
From Left to Right:
Can’t Remember, Can’t Remember, Can’t Remember, Mark, Jamie, Blurry, Don’t Know, Guy that follows Adam, Chris, Adam, Eric, Chris’s kid, and The Great and Venerable Rob.
July 7, 2011
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TONIGHT: 5/16 6:30PM LAMBA Board Meeting
Come on down to the LAMBA board meeting tonight (Monday 5/16) at 6:30PM at Dublin City Pub in the front room.
May 16, 2011
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LATE NOTICE! Trail Work! Sunday, May 15, 12-3pm
Sunday Sunday Sunday, high noon til 3-ish in the PM, front side / 37th Ave… probably should wear weather appropriate clothing, bring hat / gloves / sunblock / bug juice / water / snacks / fizzy drinks / etc. We’ll have the tools!
More info. on the work:
As you probably have noticed, we’ve been working hard to build more / sustainable contour trails @ Beverly that take advantage of the terrain, with intentions of providing a better user experience on trails that will be around for a long time… take the new power line crossing for example, turning 25 meters of poorly designed trail that has degraded in a relatively short amount of time into 500 or more meters of well designed trail that will last. The biggest bummer about this necessary tactic is the need to close some trails, every trail user’s favorite thing to do, right? Wrong. A very important thing to do properly, however…
Well, instead of tossing sticks down on the old trail and calling it good, the responsible and right thing to do is to close the trail properly. This is what we plan to focus on Sunday…
The areas of focus will be as follows (see text & map) and in priority order…
*fall line trail that connects Trail 11 to the rock garden area.
*old power line crossing.
There are other areas we will work on if the two above are completed.
On site details / decisions aside, we will follow the IMBA guidelines below, with this basic process:
1 – Install water breaks / diversions.
2 – Back fill breaks / diversions with sand and soil from trail deposit area and deberming.
3 – Complete back filled area with transplanted plants, rock, and debris.
Thanks for reading, hope to see you out there!
May 15, 2011
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