Do you have a mountain bike destination in your back garden? Are you trying to work with the local council/forestry/town to make your area more of a mountain bike centre? Trying to organise a mountain bike festival? You need to listen to this man.
Troy Rarick is credited with (near enough) singlehandedly putting the Colorado town of Fruita on the map, where his Over the Edge mountain bike shop was based. He’s now trying to spread out his knowledge by talking to communities around the world about how they can make their towns more attractive to mountain bikers. Have a look at this video from Bike Exchange to see a few of his thoughts on the topic.
The link to Troy’s business is here: http://www.mtbdestinationdevelopment.com/
Human powered recreators, I turned it off at this point
I thought it was
quite interesting
A great guy. I turned up in Fruita in 2008, asked at the motel about riding and was told there was a get together on the edge of town that evening. Rocked up, and found I’d invited myself to a party at his house. He didn’t bat an eyelid. If you rode a bike you were considered a friend.