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Wicked Ride of the East, 10/26

Join the North Shore chapter of NEMBA for the Kona Bicycles Mountain Bike Adventure Series season finale. This year’s event will showcase some of The Harold Parker State Forest’s best singletracks, many of which have been built by the hard working members of North Shore NEMBA. There will be marked routes for beginners, intermediates and advanced riders. New England Bicycles will have a fleet of Kona demo bikes for you to try out. And a Women’s Skills Clinic will be held by the pro racers from Team Vitamin Water. Highlighting the event will be the drawing for NEMBA’s Land Access Raffle @ 1:00PM.

Harold Parker State Forest
North Andover, MA
Berry Pond Recreation Area
Registration: 9-11am

For all the Dirt: http://www.mtbadventureseries.org/mtbadventure/wickedride.htm

For advance tickets to the raffle, go here: http://www.nemba.org./nembaevents/laraffle08.html

Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=....087766&spn=0.007579,0.011609&z=16&iwloc=addr

 

[Cielo]

More Wicked Ride Info

9th Annual “Wicked Ride of the East” at Harold Parker

Less than a week to go for the 9th Annual Wicked Ride of the East at Harold Parker State Forest part of the MTB Adventure Series. So, come join North Shore NEMBA in riding some of the best mountain bike trails in New England. Kona Bikes will be available for demo and Sinister Bikes will be showing off some new designs and giving away swag. Choose biking a self guided 7 mile easier route or 17 mile advanced route, or one of our many lead rides from Team Vitamin Water, the Boston LUNA Chix, and NSNEMBA. After the ride enjoy Leebo’s famous homemade chili, hot dogs grilled up be the Cycle Loft crew, and snacks provided by NSNEMBA.

Date: Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Location: Harold Parker State Forest
North Andover, MA
Berry Pond Recreation Area

Registration: 9:00 am – 10:00 am

Fee: $10.00 NEMBA Members
$15.00 for non-members
Free if you join NEMBA at the Event
Kids 15 and under ride free with a registered adult
* Proceeds benefit HP and other local bike trails

Woman's Skills Clinic and Ride! Come ride with pro riders from Team Vitamin Water.
10am beginners maintenance clinic - how to change a flat / minor adjustments.
11am beginners skills clinic. This will not be a distance ride, more of a basic skills clinic around the festival area.
12pm intermediate ride. This will be more of a ride than a clinic. If we hit obstacles people would like to work on, we can stop, but we are hoping for a fun-filled group ride. This ride will be about 2 hours long. . We hope to see you there!

Boston LUNA Chix who’s program seeks to invite, inspire and encourage women to get outside and play will be leading a women’s intermediate ride at 10 am.

North Shore NEMBA Lead Rides- Ride the trails with the local individuals who actually built many of the trails at HP. There will be three different levels to choose from at 10 a.m. - beginners, intermediate, & intermediate plus.

The Cycle Loft, Boston's professional choice for bicycles will be cooking up grilled hot dogs to make the ever popular chili-dog possible. Their skilled mechanics will also be available will some spare parts for emergency repairs.

Essex County Greenbelt Association, a nonprofit land trust that has conserved nearly 13,000 acres of land in Essex County and asset to the mountain biking community, will display their open space map with guidebooks.

Bicycle Demos! Come try out 2008 Kona Bicycles, courtesy of New England Bicycle of Southwick, MA.

Sinister Bikes, a local rider owned company will be present with various new designed bikes and some shwag!!

Directions:
From 495 -Exit 42a go East on Rte 114 about 5.5 miles, turn right at Harold Parker Rd, turn right at Middleton Rd, ½ mile to Berry Pond gate on Left.
From 95 – Go West on Rte 114 about 6.5 miles, turn left at Harold Parker Rd, turn right at Middleton Rd, ½ mile to Berry Pond gate on Left.
From 93 – Exit 41 to Rte 125 towards Andover/North Andover for about 2.7 miles. Turn right at Stop lights at Harold Parker Rd (near State Police). Follow road to the end. Turn left at Jenkins Rd. At next intersection, turn right at Salem St. Berry Pond Rec Area will be on your right just after the bridge.

Contact: Steve Charrette at 978-283-6338 or [email protected]

 

[Cielo]

The rainy weather that's forecasted seems to be coming thru Saturday night and Sunday is shaping up to be sunny in the afternoon with temps near 60. We arrowed the route today and the trails are bone dry so some moisture shouldn't affect the trails to much.

Steve

 

[ThreeD]

Great Weather...Great Riding

Well the weather was great for Sundays Wicked Ride of the East. I brought a new mountain biker, a high school friend that I haven't seen in 10 years, to the event and we both had an excellent time. We both had some falls but nothing too serious. Overall the trails were in top notch shape, thanks go out the people that maintain them.:thumbsup: The chili was awesome as were the bratwurst. There were a lot of smiling faces out on the trail. One thing that my friend Peter couldn't get over was the helpful people that would stop or ask if everything was ok if we stopped to catch our breaths. It is a great community to be involved in. Harold Parker is a beautiful area to ride and the weather just added to it. Again thanks to everyone involved.:thumbsup:

 

[Cielo]

Thanks for Attending!!!!

Thanks to all the attendees at the 9th Annual "Wicked Ride of the East" at Harold Parker SF. The conditions were a bit challenging after receiving nearly an inch of rain the night before but luckily the singletrack trails at HP dry fairly quickly. Despite the stormy conditions the night before and even morning of the event, we had a great turnout of nearly300 riders.

Many thanks to the generousity of the Cycle Loft and Anthony & his crew for cooking up over 200 hot dogs and sausages, as well as, some side items. And, thanks for providing technical assistence for any biker in need.

Thanks to all of our other sponsors:Team Vitamin Water's Alexis, Karen and Kate for running a women's maintenance and riding clinic followed by a lead ride. Boston Luna CHIX Roz, Ann, and Reenie for leading an intermediate women's ride. Sinister bikes for showing what a local bike company can build and giving a bunch of t-shirts away. New England Bicycle for providing Kona bikes to demo, And, Essex County Greenbelt for supporting biking at their properties and providing maps of local protected land.

And Finally, Thanks to the NEMBA crew who works so hard every year at this time to make this event happen. Philip Keyes for taking care of registration and all the other behind the scenes details. Dan Streeter for taking care of most of the details and trail arrowing with Frank Lane, Joe Dizzazo and Kirk Goldsworthy. Lee Holenbeck for making mass amounts of amazing chili. And, the rest of the NSNEMBA crew Scott Merloni, Dave McCrimmon, Bob Ganley and his daughter Julia, Fred White, Cindy Hickey and Eric Gallant.

We're already in motion with some nice improvements for the 10th annual ride.

See you next year,

Steve Charrette