IMBA Trail Crew Visits Flagstaff - Gravity is Good

This past weekend, Leslie and Chris Kehmeier from the IMBA trail crew made a stop in Flagstaff to work with the Flagstaff Biking Organization. After a day of building trails with the FBO, Leslie and Chris sat down to talk about gravity riding and what can be done to accommodate the future growth of this segment of riders. Read more to see an excerpt of their report.

From Leslie and Chris' blog

Another weekend, another location, another Trailbuilding School. Every Saturday is exciting, inspiring, and full of fun. This past weekend we stopped in Flagstaff, Arizona to work with FBO - Flagstaff Biking Organization. Aside from bringin’ the trail education, we also had the great pleasure to speak to a really dynamic subject – gravity.

Over the course of the last two years we’ve seen and ridden a lot of different trails. For the most part, they serve a majority of the mountain bike population, but not every single rider. It’s our view that beginners and expert riders tend to be the most underserved in our sport. Collectively, we need to think seriously about two ideas; lowering the barrier of entry for new or less skilled riders and plan for the folks who continue to reach the highest levels of the stratosphere.