Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 26, 2010
With Jon at the helm, Evergreen helped get marquee projects on track, from Duthie Hill to South Fork Snoqualmie to Black Diamond. Colonnade got much-deserved attention. New sponsorships rolled in …
Posted in Personalities | Tagged diamondback bikes, EMBA, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Jon Kennedy, mike brown
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 25, 2010
All the news that’s fit to bike! John Cook is the county supervisor who said “I don’t believe a bicycle is a transportation device” . . . so what about John Cook’s brain?
Posted in News Cycle | Tagged charlie kelly, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, glenn glover, jason english, ned overend, Pivot Cycles
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 28, 2010
Its co-filmmaker calls “Women of Dirt,” which premieres a week from tomorrow, an “experiential lifestyle film” packed with “levity” and “fun.” But it’s not just a film “for and about women,” whether on bikes or off. Instead, says Mark Brent, previewers have been unanimous that the movie has “huge crossover appeal” for any audience — [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged awesome land women of dirt, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, mountain bikers of santa cruz
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 3, 2010
In which our intrepid duo climbs the world’s longest, most boring fire road, traverses the Talus Field From Hell, and finishes in complete darkness, riding by Braille. Was this fun or what?! This btw concludes our holiday “classics” series. Happy 2010, ride safe out there! Still basking in Sun Valley’s halo, Jim Lyon and I [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged BBTC, devils backbone, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, pot peak
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on September 2, 2009
The good, the bad and the better all got plenty of air time last night at perhaps the biggest communal gathering ever of the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance at Duthie Hill, which by the way is coming along nicely as a miniature Whistler mountain bike park in the Issaquah highlands. Upwards of 100 folks turned [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Obama Bikes, Trail Access, Videos | Tagged Duthie Hill mountain bike park, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on August 27, 2009
The Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, in the midst of member turmoil and a leadership shakeup, has reached out to followers to submit questions and raise concerns before next Tuesday’s Town Hall summit at 6 p.m. at Duthie Hill Lodge. Contact information is on the Evergreen Web site. “We’ve received a great deal of input already, [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Obama Bikes, Trail Access | Tagged BBTC, duthie hill, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, John Lang
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on August 15, 2009
The Puget Sound region’s leading mountain bike club, the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, is undergoing some Obama-like “change you can believe in” as a result of membership turmoil we reported on last month. The latest shocker: Executive director John Lang is resigning as of Sept. 1. Lang’s arrival in the spring of 2008 marked a [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Obama Bikes, Trail Access | Tagged Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Jennifer Lesher, John Lang, Jon Kennedy
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on August 6, 2009
Boy…dog days of August. Not much news to round up! But here goes… Let’s start with the always reliable wakeup call, NAKED CYCLISTS! Usually naked riders in Seattle paint themselves…and this is probably why. My take: If a mother from Everett finds offense, she shouldn’t be comin’ to downtown Seattle. O my, the things you [...]
Posted in Culture, News Cycle | Tagged Brandon Semenuk, Crankworx, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, iphone cycling apps, naked cyclists
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 29, 2009
Can a professionally run mountain bike organization also be a socially vibrant club? Or, as one Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance member put it at a sometimes painfully frank board meeting Monday evening, “Are we turning ourselves into a fund-raising group for mountain biking or are we a mountain biking organization that needs to raise funds?” [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Obama Bikes | Tagged Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club, Bob Bournique, Bob Hollander, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Jen Lesher, John Lang, Len Francies, Tim Banning
