How and why it is crucial to take care of its mountain bike trails
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How and why it is crucial to take care of its mountain bike trails
Stand on your loved one MTB, run on most fun trail near the house without posing problems of time and together with old friends: this is the perfect day for each self-respecting biker. But often enjoy everything beautiful offers mountain biking is not enough, because one of its pillars is the participation and sharing. Opportunities abound, from giving a hand to organize an event to promote the work of a local association, passing through the part in a day of trail building:the construction and maintenance of the trails.
Supporting Edoardo Melchior, vice president of IMBA Italy, We find out what are the Cinqui good reasons why to care for their paths.
1. What is the Trail Building
The trail building is the art of design and build and maintain the trails: many think in leaps and parabolic banks but there is more, the main goal is to learn to manage water and erosion.
2. Because the trail building is all well and good
In the past, born trails to the need to connect two points, often in the shortest distance possible. The paths of today have often lost this function and have become an infrastructure whose main purpose is to have fun (and security) of users that run them. Not by chance when you ask Gary Fisher what is the most important innovation of the last decade in MTB, he answers the trails.
3. Because local association should take care of their paths
The obvious answer is to have fun more. A more altruistic motivation may be to pay off with a little 'of our time nature and the community in exchange for fun trails and life in nature give us. The bike is a sport booming and if we continue to do all we must learn to respect and take care of the trails and nature why, us not forget, pathless there is mountain biking.
4. What are the main impacts on trails, environment and community
Because there are no fairies trail!
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Immediately have a network of paths designed in the correct manner, with sustainable paths IMBA teaches in his duri, It means less erosion and more fun for the users of the trails themselves. In the long term to have safe paths and fun brings more people to practice sports in nature (not only but also MTB trail running and hiking), fueling a more fit population, healthier, more attentive to the environment and its preservation.
5. The best way to venture into this activity
I 4 pillars IMBA
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Always think of the long term, studied and always get permission before sinking the hoe in the ground. The four pillars are IMBA: dialogue, build, respects and ride. The dialogue (and permits) must be the starting point of any project. A great execution of a poor design will lead to increasingly poor results, do not waste time and money in a bad design.
