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Spring 2017 Update

Spring 2017 Update

After a long winter the Trail Crew has been excited to get back down to business! The Trail Crew has had a busy month clearing blowdown and re establishing drainage on many trails throughout the trail network. A couple key projects include: Natural High received a new...

Trail Crew & Summer Student Positions

Trail Crew & Summer Student Positions

We're hiring!  For the past two years, the NSMBA has received provincial government funding from Service Canada to employ a post-secondary student for 8-16 weeks over the course of the summer season.  We were lucky enough to find Lea Zhecheva in 2015 and 2016, who...

Gear Swap on Hiatus

Gear Swap on Hiatus

Dear North Shore Community   This year we will be taking a pause in hosting our annual Gear Swap. We recognize the importance of this event to the community, and events such as this which bring us all together. During this hiatus we will reassess and reinvent our...

2017 Town Hall Meeting

2017 Town Hall Meeting

Thank you to those in our community who attended our Town Hall Meeting. If you want to relive or read our Town Hall Presentation you can check it out online here now! 2017 Town Hall Presentation PDF Thank you Mayor Walton for taking the time to address our membership...

Join & Win with SRAM!

Join & Win with SRAM!

    Joining the NSMBA pays off! We have come a long way and would like to thank you for your ongoing support. SRAM is helping us thank our membership and encourage you to join early by giving away an entire Eagle Drive Train, a Rockshox Pike, Rockshox Lyrik,...

2017 Hires: Proud to Introduce…

2017 Hires: Proud to Introduce…

  2017 Hiring Update: March 2017   In our last eNews we introduced our very first Executive Director, Christine Reid.  We're happy to announce that Cynthia Young has joined our team as the part-time Trail Adoption Plan (TAP) Manager.  Many of you know...

2017 Fiver Support Required!

2017 Fiver Support Required!

  Where is spring? Is it ever going to come? Hopefully it arrives before the first Fiver of 2017. It's getting close to Fiver season. Are you ready for the 2017 Fiver World Series? We're trying to get ready. That is what this post is about, getting things dialled...

Membership Mailout Support FILLED!

Membership Mailout Support FILLED!

**UPDATE** This community is incredible! Thank you for the overwhelming support to work on our mailouts! We are all booked up & ready to get to work. Thank you for the help! HELP! We have over 500 Members which means over 500 envelopes to stuff and lick (and...

sleep. ride. design. repeat.

sleep. ride. design. repeat.

We are looking for keen designers for various little graphic design projects. Be it exciting poster designs, creating artwork for T-shirts and stickers, contribute in optimizing our website or coming up with visually appealing content for social media campaigns. If...

District of North Vancouver Council Presentation

District of North Vancouver Council Presentation

On Monday April 10th the North Shore Mountain Bike Association will hold our annual presentation to District of North Vancouver (DNV) Council.                               This will be a 5 minute delegation. Please join us as we update DNV Council on our Associations...

NSMBA Annual Survey

NSMBA Annual Survey

For the past 5 years, we have conducted an annual community survey. This is an important opportunity for us to hear from our community, both members and non-members, to better understand how we can represent the North Shore Mountain Biking Community and learn what we...

2017 NSMBA Film Festival

2017 NSMBA Film Festival

  The NSMBA Film Festival, or NSMBAFF, began in 2011 as a way to showcase some of the amazing local film makers from the North Shore and Lower Mainland in 5 minute "shred-its".   Judging the submissions is an annual highlight for our Board of Directors and we've...

Metro Updates – February 2017

Metro Updates – February 2017

FEBRUARY 2017 On December 7, 2014, a significant rockslide occurred in the Seymour River Canyon approximately one kilometre north of Riverside Drive. This rockslide partially blocked the Seymour River and increased the water level upstream, flooded area trails and the...

Here comes the Pineapple Express.

Here comes the Pineapple Express.

We at the NSMBA are as excited as you all for the return of that mythical substance hidden under all the white stuff: dirt. But, with over 150mm of rain in the forecast for the week, we've got a favour to ask: lets give the trails a bit of rest during this difficult...