Membership FAQs

Can I join on-line ?
What are the benefits of IMBA UK membership ?
Do you accept credit cards or switch cards ?
I'd like to affiliate my club. Can I ?
Does the membership run for 365 days or is there a specific renewal date ?
I'm already a member of IMBA in the US. When will my membership details be transfered ?
I'd like to buy some IMBA merchandise. Can I buy it from the UK ?
Will I receive a newsletter ?
Why join IMBA ?
I'd like to help IMBA UK. What can I do ?
Will you offer training for the IMBA UK reps ?

Can I join on-line ?

Yes! Just click here. You will need a credit/debit card, or a PayPal account.

If you prefer, you can send us a cheque. In that case, please print out this form and send it in with your payment.

What are the benefits of IMBA UK membership ?

By joining IMBA UK, you will be helping us to promote mountain-biking in the UK & Ireland. Amongst other things, this means defending our bridleway network, and providing support and information for trail-builders.

Members receive monthly news updates by email, plus IMBA UK's occasional printed magazine "Trails".

We also hope to build a variety of membership benefits. IMBA-UK members can already access the CTC individual third party liability cover as follows:

Third Party Insurance level of £5m
Accidental injury to any person (except an employee of the cyclist)
Accidental damage to property including some recompense for legal fees
Valid anywhere in the world except USA and Canada
Includes riding for recreation and professional (but not trade) purposes
Underwritten by Norwich Union and covers: A £250 excess for accidental damage claims, but none on injury claims. Only valid for named members of clubs affiliated to the CTC. Claims are handled by the CTC.
Annual premiums apply as detailed here.

The IMBA UK website shop offers member discounts on various publications.

Do you accept credit cards or switch cards ?

Yes. The IMBA UK website accepts card payments for membership fees and merchandise. This facility is powered by PayPal, but you don't need to have a PayPal account to use it.

I'd like to affiliate my club. Can I ?

Yes, you can affiliate online (credit/debit card or PayPal account required). Or you can print this form and post it to us with a cheque.

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Does the membership run for 365 days or is there a specific renewal date ?

Membership will run for 365 days from the date that your payment was received. This will spread the administrative load throughout the year. You will be sent a reminder to renew in good time.

If you join online, then you can use PayPal's subscription facility to take care of your renewals, but you can cancel at any time.

I'm already a member of IMBA in the US. When will my membership details be transfered ?

The process should be completed by now.

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I'd like to buy some IMBA merchandise. Can I buy it from the UK ?

Yes. This website has several Shop pages which accept online payments for the items we offer from the IMBA-UK office. Please let us know if there any items on the USA website which you'd like us to offer in the UK.

Will I receive a newsletter ?

Yes, members receive monthly news updates by email, plus up to four copies per year of IMBA UK's printed magazine "Trails".

So please make sure that we have your current email and postal addresses.

Why join IMBA ?

We all ride our mountain bikes to enjoy the buzz of a tough outing, to socialise with friends or to soak up the countryside atmosphere.

Few of us expected to go trail building, or to campaign to defend trails or work to open new ones. But to get the network we all want, that is just what we have to do.

IMBA UK aims to help you to help this to happen by providing a supportive structure which will allow us to speak more effectively with government, councils and land managers, and at the same time provide the facility to share problems and circulate best practice between members.

IMBA UK is a fully democratic organisation working for its members. But to be effective we need to have a strong membership base which truly reflects the needs of the UK mountain biker.

So the UK needs an IMBA UK - and IMBA UK needs you!

I'd like to help IMBA UK. What can I do ?

We're actively looking for people to act as our eyes and ears throughout the UK. If you'd like to help out by attending rights of way meetings, acting as a point of contact for mountain bikers in your area or perhaps adopting a section of trail to maintain then get in contact with us.

Will you offer training for the IMBA UK reps ?

Yes we plan to. Details will be announced on the IMBA-UK website in due course.
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Last update: 12 Jan 2009