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Trail Solutions: IMBA's Guide to Building Sweet Singletrack
is IMBA's premier trailbuilding resource, and should be a priority purchase for all trailbuilders. This 272-page book combines cutting-edge trailbuilding techniques with proven fundamentals in a colorful, easy-to-read format.
Packed with more than 130 photos and 50 original illustrations, Trail Solutions is an essential tool for land managers and volunteer trailbuilders aspiring to raise their shared-use trail systems to the next level. The new book expands greatly on IMBA's popular 2001 handbook "Building Better Trails" and breaks new ground by providing detailed advice on banked turns, rock armoring, mechanized tools, freeriding, downhilling, risk management, and other pioneering techniques. The book is divided into eight sections that follow the trailbuilding process from beginning to end. Readers will be guided through the essential steps of trail planning, design, tool selection, construction, and maintenance. Paperback, 272 pages, 8.5" x 11", 130 color photos, 50 illustrations, glossary, index, published June, 2004. |
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Managing Mountain Biking: IMBA's Guide to Providing Great Riding
This new book expands significantly on Trail Solutions, providing further guidance for anyone planning and maintaining trails. It breaks new ground with advice on overcoming user conflict, minimizing environmental impact, managing risk, and providing technically challenging riding. While Trail Solutions covered trail construction, Managing Mountain Biking focuses on solving mountain biking issues through innovative trail design, effective partnerships, and visitor management strategies. What makes one trail a success, while another is unpopular or the source of conflict? Why do some trails last for decades with minimal maintenance, while others require expensive repairs? Managing Mountain Biking gives solutions for these and dozens of other trail-related dilemmas. Written for professional land managers, volunteers, and recreation providers alike, this 256-page book offers an essential collection of best practices for planning, designing, and managing successful trail networks and bike parks. More than 50 experts - including land managers, recreation ecologists, professional trailbuilders, and experienced advocates - contributed to Managing Mountain Biking creating the most complete reference of its kind. Strategies are clearly described with the aid of 270 color photos and 25 helpful illustrations; dozens of success stories from around the globe provide real-world examples of effective trail management. Details: Paperback, 256 pages, 8.5" x 11", 270 color photos, 25 illustrations, index, published March, 2007. |
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Lightly on the Land - The SCA Trail Building and Maintenance Manual
by Bob Birkby, The Student Conservation Association Lightly on the Land is a down-to-earth "nuts and bolts" book for anyone new to trailbuilding. It focuses on crew leadership and the basics of trail construction and maintenance. It contains instructions on many technical skills such as building with rock, felling and bucking, building with timber, bridge construction, transplanting, and environmental restoration. It gets down and dirty with tools, tool repair, knots, and rigging. New chapters focus on arid lands restoration and involving conservation volunteers. Hundreds of illustrations depict techniques such as surveying, rigging, stonework, chainsaw skills, timber joinery, and bridge building. These techniques are perfect for replacing your rickety freeride stunts with sturdy log rides and durable timber and rock structures. When it comes to books about trailbuilding, IMBA recommends Trail Solutions as the best place to start. But if it's trail construction that interests you, then Lightly on the Land is hard to beat. Details: 304 pages, Paperback, 7.25" X 9", Black and White, Illustrated |
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| Freeride Guide A compendium of articles taken from three Freeride editions of the IMBA Trail News providing all you need to know about North Shore build. Note: You can view past and present issues of Trail News free of charge at the IMBA USA web site. |
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Guidelines for Land Managers
This IMBA-UK booklet offers guidelines for land managers who wish to manage or develop a mountain biking facility on their land. This applies where a cycle trail exists or is planned on open ground, woodland, amenity areas or disused extraction sites such as quarries and pits. The booklet also provides guidance on the management of non-authorised informal MTB sites. The booklet is available free of charge as a PDF download. 12 A5 pages. Copyright © IMBA UK 2006. |
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The Trailbuilding Handbook
Mountain bikers often come across areas both in and out of the forest which would make great venues for new MTB trails or sites. But how do you go about changing an idea into some brand-new singletrack? IMBA's latest booklet does just that. Written by Chase Trails guru Stuart Tite, the booklet provides easy-to-follow information on how to establish and manage a trailbuilding group, the process of getting permissions, insurance and funding, right the way through to maintenance considerations once the trail is open. The new Guide is available free of charge as a PDF download to IMBA members, or for £3.00 to non-members. 14 A4 pages. Copyright © IMBA UK 2006. |
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Building Better Trails -- Designing, Constructing and Maintaining Outstanding Trails IMBA's original trailbuilding guide, Building Better Trails continues to be highly relevant, but has now been superseded by the more comprehensive "Trail Solutions" (see above) which is in glorious technicolour. Available to members free of charge by email. Available to non-members for £7.50 in printed form. 35 A4 pages, black and white. Copyright © IMBA 2001. |
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IMBA UK, Blackrig, Lochmaben, Dumfries and Galloway, DG11 1RN.
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