The Annapolis Valley Mountain Bike Association has been selected to participant in a grant contest put on by Mountain Equipment Co-op. Their “Dirt Search Contest” will award two bike associations,one in Western Canada and one in the East with a $10,000 grant for the trail project of their choice!
I’m pretty stoked that the AVMBA is in the finalists, we will have a 1 in 12 shot at winning the grant! Pretty good odds! But… we need your help. This will be an online vote so the more you vote the better our chances. The group with the most votes wins. You’ll be able to vote every day for 5 weeks. Contest goes live next week.
The trail project we’ve chosen is to build a new school “flow trail” filled up with berms, rollers, table top jumps, and other fun features. It’s going to be awesome and assessable for riders of all ages. New riders will be able to roll down the trail with a smile on their face and experienced rippers will be finding tons of ways to get some air time! Basically a mini resort style trail.
More details and link to the contest coming soon! Check back often!!
folks we could actually win this thing. right now it is looking like a two pony race with the valley is in second place and only 6 votes behind at this point. no one deserves it more than ryan and michelle, just think what they could build for us. better yet think about carving it up your bike once it’s built. so let’s all get together and make this happen.
Voted! The problem is that since I’m a recent transplant from Onterrible, most of my facebook friends would be liable to vote for one of the many competing entrants from there.
I’ve been able to vote constantly. From what I’m told MEC knows people are doing this and will be removing the extra votes at the end of the contest that came form the same IP address with in 24 hours.
….however, keep the extra votes going! They help keep the contest visible and remember to share your votes, visibility really helps drive the voting. Keep up the great work every one!!
so when do we get the results? looked like it was a real close race tween greater t.o. and the valley. it will be interesting to see the final numbers.
