Nevada Dave said riding through Palos this past weekend felt like were drinking ‘cool water’ as we were breathing hard hammering through some of our favorite sections. It indeed felt great to open the lungs up in the forest and take in the permeating smells of dirt mixed with leaves and fox dung. Nothing like nature to make you feel alive.

Follow-Me Premiere
CAMBr is hosting the premiere of “Follow Me” at the Cobra Lounge on May 23rd – advanced ticket sales are open and encouraged to guarantee your spot at the premiere. Schwag raffles, and fundraising will be going on to help CAMBr keep all of us dirtbags content with new trail initiatives. The entire ‘Bonebell’ crew will be there with some prizes to donate as well for the raffle and a collection of schwag from CAMBr bike shop sponsors.

Half Acre Getting Dirty
Every roadie has been getting stoked about the ‘challenge’ of the European spring classics where the road gets tough, the weather gets whippy, and the field of cyclists are splintered through atrition. Sounds like Mountain Biking to me! If you’ve been wanting to try a ‘road race’ but with the feel of a ‘dirtbag’ race – then consider the Half Acre sponsored Gravel Metric Century. It’s not a USA Cycling recognized race, which means, anyone can participate, and its good old fashioned, show up, ride fast, ride hard, and get to the finish on your own steam with no support. Bring your tools and spare tubes – this race is unsupported, but its only a race if you want it to be. The point is have fun and push yourself on these gravelly hilly scapes of the countryside.

Half Acre has teamed up with CAMBr to do a joint trail work day and they are inviting all of you to come join in on the fun and enjoy some refreshing brew of their namesake sponsor to boot for showing up and helping. This event is on our events page for May 8th. Check it out and get your hands dirty.

Friends Don’t Count
The CAMBr Facebook page has 667 friends (or likes in this new change on Facebook). However, the CAMBr dues paying members number in the 400s. This math doesn’t jive. If you ‘like’ CAMBr, then take the next step and consider a membership. To ensure that we have the best trail advocacy out there and the strength to move a mountain in the political scape to get better land access, better cooperation from the community, and more initiatives come to fruition faster – join and encourage others to join with a membership to CAMBr. Chicago has near 9 million inhabitants including all their surrounding suburbs – we hope to help CAMBr increase this drive to get the numbers jumping into the 1,000s.

We’ll entice you to join even – details coming.