The Kansas Singletrack Society

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NEW Meeting Formats:
Club meetings are social events held the second Thursday each month at 7:00 pm at Heartland Bicycles at 1111 N. Mosley in Wichita.
If you would like to participate in the business discussion and decisions we make, please come one hour early, at 6pm, to join our club business meetings.

Photos from the MTB events in Ark City! Click to see them!

We have had a lot of traffic to our web site and a lot of interest in KSS since Sunday's Wichita Eagle article... so we'd like to welcome all of you Wichita Eagle readers!!!

Please consider registering on this web site, it will greatly help us measure the interest in our efforts. Registering is FREE and gets you access to our trail information, among other things. Also, if you ride one of the trails more than three times, and enjoy it, please consider becoming a KSS member and helping support our trail projects. Thank you!!

KSS is a group of mountain bike enthusiasts in the Southern Kansas/Wichita area. We love to ride bikes, race bikes and build new trails. We ride mountain and road bikes and simply love all facets of outdoor living. Among us are cyclists, mountain bikers, runners, swimmers, adventure racers, geocachers and so much more. The common thread is that we sincerely enjoy life on the trail.

Since KSS has been organized, members have spent hundreds of hours maintaining and building mountain bike trails.

We have added several miles of singletrack at Camp Horizon and created a new mountain bike trail near Wichita called Miller's Meadows.

We have also participated in IMBA trail design workshops and applied newly acquired techniques on our local trails.

Adding additional trails in the Wichita area is a top priority for KSS. Currently, we have a project in the works at Fall River, 1 hour east of Wichita. We have secured a grant for $21k from the Kansas Trails Council. Now what we really need are the hours of manpower to qualify for reimbursement and to make this trail a success.

Last Updated on Sunday, 06 December 2009 14:27
 

2009 1210 KSS December 2009 Minutes

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Attending:
Jerry Spaulding, Jim Griffin, Lonnie Cooper, Mike Burke, Paula Burke, Jerry Bratt, Terry Plenert & Kelly Harper

Equipment/Grant purchases:
Terry shared what we have purchased so far and how much we have been reimbursed. We have $3500 more to spend. Discussed what to spend it on. Discussed a trailer and budgeting about $900 for it. Need some small items like a GPS, shovels, brooms. Maybe a chain saw, a few safety items, trimmer string, chains for the saws, fuel bottles and misc other items. Terry will write up a proposal and send it in email to the board.

Work Day:
December work day will be skipped due to holidays and preparing for holidays. Fall River needs flagged and Terry plans to head out there. Once flagged, we can have a work day in January. Deer season is going on till mid January so we need to be careful on the trails.

Does Horizon need a work day? Kelly reported that the river could use a leaf blower. The re-route on cardiac will be a few days' of work. Katie and Neil are happy with the card recieved so far. At the board meeting for Horizon they talked up KSS. They also plan to leave town for a few days and thought about locking the gate; but didn't want to lock us out so decided against it.

Next Fall River work day is January 9th. If weather is bad, will push to go a later weekend.

Dues:
Lonnie suggested an increase by $5. Family $30/Single $25.  As it is we have to have 25 members just to cover our yearly insurance. To start after the first of the year. Membership starts in April; but anyone who pays after January 1 is renewing for April.

Members:
How to get people to join vs just being interested. We know they are interested based on attendance at Miller's as well as all of our social networking. 

Election of Officers:
Will be in Januray at the January business meeting. Proposed board is:
Chair: Bobby Smith
Co Chair: Jerry Bratt
VP in Charge of Club Trips: Kelly Harper
Treasurer: Lonnie Cooper
Marketing/Secretary: Paula Burke
Board Members: Terry Plenert, Jim Griffin, Jerry Spaulding

Meeting concluded at 6:59pm so the social event could start.

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:00
 

Membership Application (fill out and pay online)

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Click here for the online membership form: http://www.kssingletrack.com/membership_form.html

 

 

Last Updated on Friday, 15 May 2009 09:17
 

Club Rides

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We had a club ride at Wilson Lake trails last weekend. * KSS members showed up for riding, brewskis and greasy cheaseburgers. What a great way to spend the day. If you have never come along on one of these you are missing out. All skill levels are invited and there is plenty of fun to be had. Keep an eye out on the Yahoo group for future rides.
Last Updated on Saturday, 11 July 2009 17:11
 

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