Vermont Mountain Bikers Adopt Unique State-Level Advocacy Plan
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
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🗓️ 12 November 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Vermont Mountain Bike Association (VMBA.org) is a state-level group that supports grass-roots clubs building and maintaining trails, while also promoting tourism. Other states are taking note and considering how this model might work for them. We talk with Tom Stuessy about what the group has been able to accomplish thanks to the group’s unique configuration. Tom also gives us the lowdown on the best places to ride in Vermont beyond Kingdom Trails and Killington Resort.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab. |
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| 0:20.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | My name is Jeff, and today I'm going to be talking with Tom Stoosie. |
| 0:27.7 | Tom is the executive director of the Vermont Mountain Bike Association, |
| 0:32.3 | and the VMBA is a non-profit dedicated to ensuring the sustainable future of mountain biking in Vermont |
| 0:38.3 | and thoughtfully promoting the best riding in the Northeast by serving as the central hub |
| 0:43.2 | for advocacy, education, and event support. Thanks for joining us, Tom. |
| 0:48.0 | Hey, thanks, Jeff. Appreciate it. |
| 0:49.4 | Tell us a little bit about the Vermont Mountain Bike Association. That's a big mission |
| 0:53.5 | with a lot of words in it. How would you sort of break that down? Yeah, a little bit about the Vermont Mountain Bike Association. That's a big mission with a lot of words in it. |
| 0:54.8 | How would you sort of break that down? Yeah, a little bit about how we formed and how things |
| 0:59.0 | have sort of led to where we are now. It initially formed in 97 and operated as a bunch of |
| 1:05.3 | independent groups throughout the state, sort of very focused on their local projects and that sort |
| 1:09.2 | of thing. And then in 2007, we received |
| 1:11.1 | our federal status. And that was that year that we started with our first executive director. |
| 1:17.7 | And I've been with the organization since the end of 2012. And at the time, it was just very |
| 1:22.2 | serendipitous timing in that the chapters were becoming very interested in learning what the other chapters were doing. |
| 1:28.7 | And so that led to a discussion about how can we unite and collect our united voices around central advocacy and education. |
| 1:35.4 | And ultimately, that's how the new mission was born and that we were going to centralize things a bit relative to administration. |
| 1:43.1 | But always ensure that the chapters had |
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