We now have trail markers on our trail at Maribel. Here is a pic of our trail head marker. Note the major NEW OM sponsor sticker. thanks guys!

Other markers have caution stickers before our features and bridge. take a ride and check them out.

  Trail Building Education is something that The NEW OM feels very strongly about. It Gives your club members a feel of ownership to the trails that they help build and maintain. And gives your club more creditability in the eyes of land owners and managers. Thanks to Bridgit Brown and the Wisconsin DNR, The NEW OM was able to get two more club members certified as TRAIL DESIGN SPECIALISTS. This class was taught by Mike Ritter ( he pretty mouch wrote the trail building books that IMBA sells).  In this class you get 1 full day of trail design, 1 full day of trail Building and 1 full day of trail maintenance and crew leading. this is 1/2 day education in the class room with a test before lunch and the 2nd half of the day is spent on the trail,The 4th day is spent in the field putting your skills to the test.

Congrats and thanks to Chris and Joel for getting certified!!!

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The LUNG and LEATHER FACE spent 3 nites building the berm at MC. This thing is solid and rides smooth.

Thanks again guys for all the volunteer time that you dedicated to building this awesome berm!!
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The LUNG: taking the lower half of the berm. This will give you more speed and will whip you around the corner faster.

 I just got a Nikon D5100. had to take a nature pic. This guy was hanging out by the berm wishing he could ride it.

Darrell: coming in HOT....yeah it's that fast.

And... after seeing the awesome constructiong of this berm, Travis was asked by Ric Damm (Ripon College Cycling Race Coach) to come out to Ripon and help them make a wood berm on there trail.

you can learn more about the Ripon College cycling team and there trails here: http://ripon.edu/athletics/cycling/index.html

   We got the permission from the County Park Super to make a wood berm in the North West section of our trail. We do have a novice route to the inside of the berm. But for the Biker that comes in hot around that corner, stay outside and enjoy the ride. This is still being built. should be completed by June 28th.

 The wood for this berm was donated by Paul Braun from BRAUN BUILDING CENTER. THANKS MAN!!! And this project is being lead by Travis "THE LUNG" Johnson and Darrell "LEATHER FACE" Scheppman. looks GREAT so far boys. nice work!!!

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LEATHER FACE: hard at work with is tool of choice.

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Pictures of the completed BERM coming soon.

  When Mountain Biking at Maribel or any trail, we need to be respectfull to other trail users. The MTB trail at MC is designed and built to be a MTB specific user trail but it is still open to other users. We are going to find hikers, runners and people picking shrooms on the MTB trail. We need to yeild to them and be incontrol of our bike at all times when ride'n any trail. By showing respect to other users, we will get respect back. And that will help ours and other MTB groups move forward to devo more trail in the future.

This will be our 3rd year in a row for our Bar b-q in Sheboygan. This is a great time for kids and familys to hang out. hope you can come out.

 We have been working on a MTB mini video for the last 2 years. Production on the video has slowed down due to us dedicating our time to trail building. Well....it's time to get back on track and film for this vid. We will be working with the very talented Chad Day. Chad is the dude that helped us get our website started and filmed and edited tons of other vidoes. you can check out his work here:

Chaddayfilms.com

https://vimeo.com/user7260656

www.youtube.com/user/cday119

We'll have postings for shooting the video on the "events calader" page of this site. hope you can come out and be a part of this video. Video should drop by mid summer.

here's the cover art for the DVD. yeah....it will change i'm sure.

 The filming, directing, production and editing for this video is going to be top notch. Our resources to making this video great is in our hands.  What is not in our hands is the cost to produce this video. I am asking for any kind of sponsorship dollars for this video.  And of course, you or your business will be recognized in the video and on the packaging. The video will not only showcase MTB’n on local trails but will also have riders talk about WHY they love to MTB (the video is going to be called “THIS IS WHY”).<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

IF YOU GO OUT TO MC TO RIDE AND WANT TO PICK SOME GARLIC MUSTARD WHILE YOU ARE OUT, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!! JUST PULL THE PLANT NEAR THE ROOT AND PLACE IN A PLASTIC BAG. YOU CAN PLACE THE BAGS BY THE NEW OM TOOL SHED AND WEIGH IT DOWN WITH A ROCK. WE WILL BURN THE PLANT LATER.

THANKS FOR THE HELP!!

Ecological Threat:

• Garlic mustard spreads into high quality woodlands upland and floodplain forests, not just into disturbed areas.
• Invaded sites undergo a decline on native herbaceous cover within 10 years.
• Garlic mustard alters habitat suitability for native insects and thereby birds and mammals.
• This European exotic occurs now in 27 midwestern and northeastern states and in Canada

Emily Deem and Mike the camera guy came out to MC today to do a little story about the CAVES and the MTB Trail.

why was I wearing my helmet in this segment?

George ride'n the trail.

Emily rocking THE NEW OM jersey and ride'n a MTB.

this kind of exposure is great for the park and the club...thanks FOX 11!!
you can watch the clips here. enjoy!
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/good_day_wi/caves--trails-open-at-local-park?ref=scroller&categoryId=10021&status=true

 Single Track or Bust!!! is something that I wanted to put togther for a while now. Some People said that it would be too gnarly of a ride or nobody would want to commit to the travling to ride 6 trails in one day. So I thought, We'll...that's fine if this is NOT going to be a big ride with a bunch of people. This is just something that I want to do! Sooo... I contacted the other MTB clubs in NE Wisco and I got all postive replys back from them wanting to ride and help promote ST or B!!!  I even ran into a few peeps from Shevagas and GB that heard about this ride before it was done being organized ( yeah they want in). So with a few phone calls and emails...it is on!!!  WORBA and the Wisco Bike fed are also helping to promote this ride as well. This might just be bigger than I was planning...that would be a good thing (although, we are limited on how many tacos we can provide..Ha..ha).
 This ride is for any age and skill level MTBr's. Hope you can come out and wear your club colors.

-Wade-