How the New England Mountain Bike Association Gets Things Done
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Travis Counsell is the executive director of the new England Mountain Bike Association, also known as NEMBA. He’s currently based out of Vermont.
- Tell us a bit about NEMBA. What’s the organization’s mission and how large is your membership?
- How is NEMBA organized?
- How many miles of singletrack do NEMBA clubs support?
- When and why did NEMBA get its start?
- What were you doing before joining NEMBA?
- NEMBAfest is back for 2022. What will the festival look like this year?
- Did the recent boom in mountain bike participation translate into NEMBA membership growth?
- Given population density, are there many opportunities for new trail builds in the northeast?
- What are some ways you’ve been successful in countering folks who are against MTB trail access?
- How popular is fat biking in New England? Is fat bike grooming something that chapters devote a lot of resources to in the winter?
- What does the current discussion around e-bike trail access look like for NEMBA?
- What’s the biggest constraint NEMBA faces in carrying out and growing the mission?
- What’s next for NEMBA in 2022 and beyond?
Connect with NEMBA and learn more at nemba.org.
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| 0:46.4 | and today my guest is Travis Counsel. Travis is the executive director of the New England |
| 0:52.3 | Mountain Bike Association, which is also known as NIMBA. |
| 0:56.2 | And he's currently based out of Vermont. |
| 0:58.7 | Thanks for joining us, Travis. |
| 1:00.7 | Thanks for having me, Jeff. |
| 1:01.8 | So tell us a bit about NIMBA. |
| 1:03.7 | What's the group's mission and how large is your membership currently? |
| 1:08.3 | Sure. |
| 1:08.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.1 | So NEMBA's mission is to provide epic riding experiences, |
| 1:13.8 | preserve open space, and guide the future of mountain biking in New England. We're really focused on |
| 1:19.3 | trails, advocacy, and community. That's kind of our three pillars that we talk about a lot. |
| 1:24.2 | And we have about 8,000 members throughout New England, |
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