“IMBA is the best organization to make more trails close to home happen. They have a trail building organization and the know-how to promote trails beyond just creating them. Trail Solutions: IMBA’s Guide to Building Sweet Singletrack presents these concepts in a clear, easy-to-follow format rich with instructive diagrams and photos. 1. It covers new ground by providing detailed advice on bermed turns, rock armoring, mechanized tools, freeriding, downhilling, and other pioneering techniques.Published in 2004, the book has emerged as the leading source of sustainable trailbuilding information. Posted by mtba, June 8, 2011 Hide other formats and editions. They have helped build many of the local mountain bike groups in several areas of the U.S. Supported and encouraged by land managers and the sport’s leading advocacy group, the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA), these dirt designers have refined essential trail design and maintenance techniques. Mountain biking is inherently risky and could result in injury or death.Details: Paperback, 272 pages, 8.5" x 11", 130 color photos, 50 illustrations, glossary, index, published June, 2004.Trail Solutions is IMBA's premier trailbuilding resource. Trail Solutions : IMBA's Guide to Building Sweet Singletrack. You will learn: You will learn: How to work with government officials, trail groups, and volunteers to create and support great trails. Both very comprehensive reference books on trail building and management practices for mountain biking. Trail Solutions: IMBA's Guide to Building Sweet Singletrack and 2. Seeing narrow trails as inherently dangerous, they advocate that bicyclists should be restricted to riding on roads or very wide trails. Trail Solutions is complimented by Managing Mountain Biking: IMBA's Guide to Providing Great Riding, a 256-page book that focuses on solutions to mountain biking … IMBA developed two books based on more than 25 years of trail building and trail planning experience. IMBA’s guide to building sweet Singletrack. Trail Solution: IMBA’s Guide to Building Sweet Singletrack. The guidance on this website, and in other IMBA documents, is for reference only and should not be interpreted as a standard, specification or regulation. This 272-page book combines cutting-edge trailbuilding techniques with proven fundamentals in a colorful, easy-to-read format. This perspective doesn’t recognize the nature of mountain biking. Model/Year: 2004 Pros: Trail Solutions is essentially the Bible for trail development and construction. Managing Mountain Biking: IMBA's Guide to Providing Sweet Riding. See all formats and editions. It is a must read for anyone building or maintaining singeltrack and has great advice for dealing with land managers and public officials to get trails built. Trail Solutions is complimented by Managing Mountain Biking: IMBA's Guide to Providing Great Riding, a 256-page book that focuses on solutions to mountain biking management issues. This 272-page book combines cutting-edge trailbuilding techniques with proven fundamentals in a colorful, easy-to-read format.
This 272-page book combines cutting-edge trailbuilding techniques with proven fundamentals in a colorful, easy-to-read format. It’s called the IMBA Trail Difficulty Rating System (TDRS) and, despite its flaws, it seems to be a pretty good start at standardizing trail ratings.. First off, IMBA makes a great distinction between technical difficulty and physical difficulty.