News

4-28-2008

All singletrack trails are open for the season.

11-4-2007

It's that time of the year folks, time to burn some turkey! Join us for the 13th annual turkey burner fun ride! This is the final event of the 2007 EFTA / NEMBA Fun Ride Series! For complete event info click HERE.



5-6-07

Trail work schedule

Over the past decade FOMBA has worked with the Manchester Water Works, to advocate mountain biking and to cooperatively develop, build and maintain the trail network on the MWW property, surrounding Lake Massabesic. It is through this hard work that mountain bikers and other users are granted the privilege to recreate here. Come out and support FOMBA by volunteering some of your time to trail maintenance and becoming a member. With more members and volunteers FOMBA can continue to develop and grow this incredible network of mountain biking singletrack.

All trail maintenance start times are Saturdays at 8:00 and run until about noon. Meeting location is in the Boardyard on Depot Road in Auburn, NH. Parking is in the field, near the Kiosk. There are no rain dates for inclement weather, use your best judgment and dress appropriately. What to bring? Eye protection, work gloves, energy food and water are recommended. FOMBA will provide the tools. We have many projects scheduled for the season. The project attendance. for a particular day will be decided based on the number and abilities of volunteers in

Please keep FOMBA one of the best places to ride by showing your appreciation and respect of the property, the FOMBA organization and the trails. Do not ride closed trails, stay on the trails, do not take shortcuts, and do not perform unauthorized trail changes.

Questions? Drop me a line at trails@fomba.org

May 12^th

General Cleanup and Maintenance

June 2^nd

“National Trails Day” – Give something back to the trails you use.

July 7^th-TBD

August 4^{th -}TBD

September 8^th-CANCELLED!

October 6^th–TBD

3-25-07    Charity ride!

Cycle for Shelter

3 Great rides, 1 Great cause!

Cycle for shelter is Emmaus' annual fundraising bike-a-thon. The 2007 event will take place on Sunday, July 22, 2007 - rain or shine.    As information becomes available it will be added to the website.

In the meantime check out last years routes and the great training programs that were available.

Our planning committee of avid cyclist are working hard to create an event "for cyclists by cyclists."

For more information, please check the website at www.emmausinc.org, or email Rachel@emmausinc.org, phone 978-241-3444.

                                                                                    *Thanks to Nancy March for providing this information.

Lost and Found

A local rider has found some gear on the trail and would like to help locate the owner. If you think you lost a saddle bag, containing some tools and a tube on Fisher Cat, email ME and we can arrange to get your gear back!

1-18-07

Good news folks, remember this?

the damage caused by the spring floods of 2006 on Depot Rd. have been repaired. The road is open for business once again. The parking area has also been filled in with gravel, but please be careful when pulling in, there are still some areas that are pretty rough.

10-26-06

A note from the Trail guy...

"With a 90% chance of rain, 50 degree temp and 20mph winds in the forecast for Saturday, the FOMBA Trail Work has been canceled for Saturday 10/28/2006. This was our last planned Trail Work Day for 2006.

In November we'll be prepping for the 12th Annual Turkey Burner on November 24. So come on out and make a donation to the organization and our friends with the Auburn Volunteer Rescue crew, have some great fun with your riding buddies before the season ends and burn some turkey. Besides the shopping can always wait another month.

Thanks to everyone who has joined FOMBA and volunteered at our trail days and events. Without members and our very generous and dedicated volunteers who make the FOMBA organization tick, this terrific trail network would not exist. For next year were hoping to put in another new trail, that is similar to Woodpecker, but on steroid's. So please show your appreciation with a membership and bit of your time to help the organization and trail network grow."

See you all at the Burner,
Kevin

Questions about the trail network at FOMBA? contact trails@fomba.org

5-25-06

As most of you have already figured out there has been some damage done to the parking lot off Depot Rd. If you haven't seen it first hand, be sure to check out the pictures below! Its going to be awhile before the bridge is replaced and the parking area is repaired, so until then parking for FOMBA will be in the gravel parking lot next to the Auburn Safety Complex on Eaton Hill Road. There is a trail from the north side of this parking lot that goes into the singletrack maze of fire roads. Go left after the humps and then right across the bridge. Continue straight and you'll pass the west entrance to Fireline and then into the boardyard near the Kiosk and Lady Slipper entrance.

Directions: From Rt101 exit 2, go south on Hooksett Road as you have in the past. Continue past the left for Depot Road for a short distance and take your next left just over the bridge onto Eaton Hill Road, near the Auburn school. Go past the school and the graveyard and turn left just past the white shed on the corner of the lot.
There are also a couple of closed singletrack trails that are just to wet to ride. Fireline and Dear Run, both of these trails have flooded sections where the water is currently a couple of feet deep and not passable. Please check back here for updates on when these trails will be re-opened. Thanks to Pete and Kevin for the info and pictures.

5-16-06

Driving Directions from the Depot Rd. Parking lot.

Rain has caused major damage in our area as I am sure you all already know. I went out today after work and snapped a few pic's of some local spots, including the new homepage photo. I think it's pretty clear to everyone that we should tread very lightly, if at all on our trails. This may take a while to dry out.

This overflowing stream did this.. (Depot rd. near the Boardyard.)

Boat launch in Auburn.

4-16-06

Good news folks, Thanks to some very mild weather this spring the singletrack trails are now open for the 2006 season. The signs should be removed by early next week, get out and ride!

4-16-06

This is a very overdue update of FOMBA's bikes for kids program for 2005. Carl caught some photos at RCA Outreach. Many thanks to Dave Maz as point man and to Carl for linking us up with RCA!

Click for the big pic!



Press Release

Mountain Bike Advocacy group presents donation to NH Volunteer Guardian Organization

Jack Chapman, President of the Friends of Massabesic Bicycling Association, (FOMBA) recently presented the Court Appointed Special Advocates of NH (CASA) a check in the amount of $5,000.00. This amount represented net proceeds from the 10^th Annual Watershed Wahoo, a mountain bike race held by FOMBA in Candia NH and part of the Eastern Fat Tire Association New England Championship Series. FOMBA is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting trail access, responsible riding, and maintaining trails open for mountain bicyclist in the Lake Massabesic watershed, located near Manchester NH. CASA of NH is dedicated to providing volunteer representation for abused and neglected children in the court system. Over 2,500 victimized children have been served since the programs inception. FOMBA has donated a total of $21,500.00 to CASA since they became the race benefactor in 2000.