ABOUT US
NTMBA was formed in December 1998 to promote mountain biking and mountain biking opportunities in Northeast Tennessee. We are affiliated with the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA) and are strong advocates of responsible mountain biking and natural resource preservation. We are a 501(C)(3) charitable non-profit corporation.
WHAT WE DO
Develop and Maintain Trails
Our members spend hundreds of hours each year in the woods maintaining trails all across Northeast Tennessee. We have a working relationship with virtually every major recreational land manager in our region. We have developed trails at Warriors Path State Park, the Elizabethton Watershed, and have ongoing projects in the Cherokee National Forest.
Promote Mountain Biking and Outdoor Recreation Opportunities
We lead guided trail rides and outings year-round that are geared for beginning all the way up to advanced riders. All our rides and events are geared towards fun and to help you get as much as possible from your cycling experience. We also have a dedicated group of endurance racers that compete in 12 and 24 hour races throughout the Southeast. Many first-time racers have come away from one of our events with a smile on their face and the discovery that racing is much more than just about competing.
We Educate and Have Fun
Each year we host several clinics designed to help beginning riders develop the skills that are needed to advance in the sport. We also have other events like trailside maintenance clinics and trail building events all designed to promote outdoor fun and fitness in a comfortable, non-threatening environment.
MEMBERSHIP
We don't like to beg, but we really would like for you and your family to be part of the NTMBA experience!
For the price of a few Chile Colorado's at El Matador, you'll be enjoying a years worth of fun, and you'll feel good at knowing that your helping the trails (who cannot help themselves) and are doing your part to keep mountain biking part of the Upper East Tennessee outdoors experience.
Enough of the palm greasing, Here is what you will get:
**A years worth of our newsletter, The Knobby News. It has all the latest NTMBA happenings, news about what is happening and going on in the local mountain biking scene. Learn of new trails, events, the bike patrol, and other fun mountain biking stuff.
**Meet new riding buddies at our NTMBA monthly meetings, held at the El Matador Restaurant in Boones Creek (just of the interstate across from Wendy's). 7:30 PM the first non-holiday Monday of each month.
**You will be welcome to go to any of the dozens of informal mountain bike rides led by our knowlegeable members. What a great way to learn of new trails and meet new riding buddies. You'll be even more welcome to come to any of our volunteer trail work parties, or join the NTMBA mountain bike patrol. You'll most likely think we are crazy, but these events are tons of fun, and you will never ride a trail the same way after you have given it some TLC with your own two hands.
**This website: The reason this website is available for you to surf is due to NTMBA's membership and the support our members and sponsors give us.
**Last but not least, you will recieve discounts at the local bike shops whom sponsor NTMBA (10% on all merchandise from Piney Flats Bicycles and Fitness, Hampton Trails Bike Shop, Mahoney's Outfitters, Norris Schwinn, Mountain Sports Ltd and 10% off of rentals at Alpine Ski Center) admission to all sorts picnics, parties, clinics, etc.
We have the great fortune of having Don Barker to coordinate all our membership activities, and his info is listed below.
Our membership form is now in Adobe Acrobat format! The reader is free.
Once you have the Acrobat reader, simply get our Membership Form, run it through your printer, fill it out, slap a stamp on it and our address on it and hand it off to your local friendly snail mail box.
Note that the address for mailing the membership form has been changed to:
NTMBA
284 Greentree Dr.
Blountville, TN 37617
If you would like to speak to a real person drop by your favorite local bike shop or give Don Barker a call at 423-323-3783. We will try to contact you back asap. You may also contact Don via e-mail. | 
