Saturday, Sept 30th
-Open house @ Noon <---updated!!
-Dirt Jump Jam @ 2:00
Come on out to the official grand opening of the Chilliwack Dirt Jump park. We'll have BBQ hot dogs, give away Swag from local Bike shops, hopefully some celebrity riders, and most importantly dirt jumps to ride!!
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(Update at bottom)
If you’re familiar with Chilliwack dirt jumps, you’ll recall that they were flattened a few months ago, much to the disappointment of all local DJers.
Since then, FVMBA has been working with the city of Chilliwack with the goal of creating a sanctioned set of new DJs. Result: The city has provided machinery, dirt, labour and land for a NEW set of jumps.
Construction started this weekend; more finishing is needed, and more jumps will be built - but it’s a start!
We plan on having a formal opening in a couple weeks, but in the mean time….
Have fun!!
Pictures and discussion here. And here.
Update:
The dj park is done!! Featuring a new pump track and a Small BMX track for the little kids, it even has two tabled little djs for the little guys. There is also a rhythm section taking riders back to the starting area.
Already the kids are coming in droves, and most are local; this speaks volumes for the local scene, you just know these guys are gonna rip it up. We are going to decide which weekend for a opening day celebration jam, but probably 2-3 weeks from now.
City will be bringing more garbage cans, a water stand pipe is coming; hopefully with a shed for the tools.
City parks manager was smiling this week as were all the kids and parents.
Come spring we will be bringing a machine to rework it again.
The only set giving up problems is the big set, we may have to put a dropin or pave a runway. But with the water I am sure one weekend the guys will have at her and figure it out.
Already the area has had a couple of really fun things added, like a quarter pipe out of dirt and a couple of sweet transfer lines between the jumps. More communities need to look at the ease it took to make something which has had such a great buyin by the locals, and is becoming a destination to the kids to go and rip it up.
We’ll try to get more pics up soon.
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FVMBA Vedder mountain trail day went off as planned July 9th. A small, but dedicated group worked primarily on Dilemma, mostly putting dirt on takeoffs and trannys. Fixed a few problem holes also. We also deactivated two reroutes on Hidden Pleasures that were causing erosion and were eye sores.
Thanks to all that turned out.
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Next scheduled trail days are:
Sumas - July 9th. More detail to come
Vedder: Dilemma. Date to be announced.
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If you ride in Chilliwack, you may know that the dirt jumps have been plowed under. However - enough people made the right calls so that now the city is interested in rebuilding a sanctioned dirt jump park.
FVMBA is heavily involved in this endeavour and construction is underway!!
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Vedder Mountain Trails Association members representing Fraser Valley Mountain Bike Association, Back Country Horseman of BC, Vedder Running Club, Pacific Northwest Motorcycle Associatian, and Chilliwack Outdoor Club cooperated to make the April 9 cleanup day organized by FVMBA reps a complete success.
Individuals from these groups lent more than 700 man-hours of volunteer labour to the effort. This mammoth effort yeilded 2.7 metric tonnes of garbage that did not include metal, tires and other recyclables.
While it is discouraging that we need to continue to bust our humps keeping our playground pristine, the amount of enthusiam applied to this problem was overwhelming. Thank yous must be extended to our local Ministry of Tourism, Sport and Arts recreation representative Brian Radke who generously supplied funding for the dumpsters and landfill fees for a second year. Harvey Adrian from MacDonald's supplied coupons, and Jack's Cycles supplied food, barbequing skills and some swag. There were many, many others that helped in significant ways. You know who you are and your efforts are appreciated.
VMTA past-president Mark Steinebach enjoys the now clean & tidy trails of Vedder Mountain
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FVMBA is hosting a showing of ROAM on Sat April 22 at GoodTimes Night club in Chilliwack.
Doors open at 7:00 pm tickets are $10 per person. There will be a drink special also. Tickets are available at:
Cranky's in Aldergrove
LifeCycles in Abbotsford
Jack's Cycle in Chilliwack
The Bike Shop in Abbotsford
Wentings in Mission
Pedalsport in Chilliwack
More to come - check back.
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The FVMBA has two cleanup days scheduled in the coming months:
Drop us a line if you have any questions or need to arrange a ride to either of the locations.
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This message was received from Mark Steinebach. Keep up the good work out there!
Sunday, March 20 saw several different groups of recreational users come together to put their collective back’s into cleaning up Vedder Mountain. Every year the dirt bike, trail running, hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking groups have organized their own “trail days” to deal with the illegal dumping abuses that are reeked upon this area that we love so much. This year the various groups co-ordinated their focus. The result was a cumulative effort that yielded some 500 man hours of volunteer labour of which the mountain bike community contributed nearly half.
Two mega-dumpsters of garbage were removed from the roadways and embankments of Vedder Mountain, and piles of berms were added to the trails to improve that flowy feeling. A ton of general trail maintenance occurred. Following this trail ‘love-in’ the troops met back at Jack’s Cycle for eats. Swag flowed to the regiment and then it was off to enjoy mass trail riding. We went home muddy, tired and smiling.
The day was all good and props have to go out to the following good folks that helped to make this day go off by the donation of goods, food, money or effort:
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We were just sent a link to some video footage of the recent rally up at Vedder Mountain. There's a great interview with Mark Steinbach that illustrates a lot of the reasons why Vedder should remain open to the public.
Thanks to Geoff Edwards at Look-Ear.com for the heads up.
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Bike Brewery
Cranky's bike Shop
Jack's Cycle