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Written by Chris Norris
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Inaugural Mountain Biking Event Hosted by CORA
On Saturday, May 17th
The Cincinnati Off Road Alliance, CORA, is excited to announce its 1st Annual Summer Kick Off Event to be held May 17th at East Fork State Park. Lunch will be held at noon. Guided trail rides for new riders and group rides with some of the fastest riders in Cincinnati will begin at 1:30pm. Demo bikes and give-a-ways will be provided by several local bicycle shops.
The Trek Bicycle Store of Cincinnati is raffling a new Gary Fisher X-Cal 29er mountain bike. Tickets, which include a membership to CORA, may be purchased until April 30th at the Trek Bicycle Store of Cincinnati. Proceeds from the raffle will be donated to CORA.
So get your bikes tuned up and bring your entire family out to East Fork State Park on Saturday May 17th. More information including directions can be found at www.mtbohio.com/cora.
“About CORA”
In 2007 CORA formalized and became an official 501(c)3 organization through the Ohio Mountain Bike Association. This includes a formal membership program as well as sponsor programs. CORA was founded in 1994 and has been closely involved with park management to open new local trails along with supplying resources, knowledge and labor to maintain existing trail systems. Examples of trails that have been supported and/or maintained by CORA include East Fork State Park, Landen Deerfield, Harbin Park and Ceaser’s Creek in Ohio. CORA also actively contributes time to the trails at England Idlewild Park and Tower Park in Northern Kentucky as well as Versailles State Park in Southeastern Indiana. |
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Join CORA and win a bike! |
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Written by Chris Norris
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
Join CORA (The Cincinnati Off-Road Alliance) for $25 and get a raffle entry to win a Gary Fisher X-Cal 29er from the Trek Store Cincinnati with your one-year membership!
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Already a CORA member?
Great! Then you can "gift" the one-year membership to the person of your choice!
Want more chances win?
You can get up to 4 additional entries for $15 each!
The winner will be drawn on April 30
(Only 150 will be sold!)
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Join us on May 17th for the CORA Summer Kick-Off Event at the East Fork State Park for food, fun, and riding!
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MMF Trail Day a huge success! |
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Written by Chris Norris
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Sunday, 13 January 2008 |
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Written by Chris Norris
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
 | | From our friends over at "The Hoosier Mountain Bicycling Association"....
When soil freezes all the moisture turns to ice crystals between the particles of the soil and in clay or loam soil they are tightly packed together. As the moisture freezes the crystals expand and tear the clay apart shattering it, then as it thaws the soil become more porous and allows more moisture in. This is repeated with every successive thaw.
In Indiana (and Ohio) we can get as many as 100 freeze thaw cycles in a season.
| So, please be very careful when trying to ride the trails in the winter. The best time to ride is when the trail is frozen solid. On days when the temperature goes below freezing at night, the worst thing we can do is wait for the sun to come out and warm up the trail before riding. The trails can be very soft even if it hasn’t rained recently. Even if the temperature stays below freezing South facing trails can defrost in sunlight and turn to mush.
If you are leaving ruts in the trail where you have ridden please leave the trail. The ruts will allow even more water to remain on the trail and make it even worse. If people see you riding they will want to ride too, so very soon the trail reaches a point of meltdown. Click for full article from www.hmba.org
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