Freedom Riders High-Def Mountain Biking Movie Nite

OVERVIEW

The Freedom Riders are an awesome group of MTB enthusiasts from Jackson Hole, WY.  When officials banned trails in Teton Pass forests, this group of bikers banded together to work with the US Forest Service to build the first-ever downhill specific mountain bike trail on Forest Service land in history!

This film relates the Freedom Riders’ tale of persistence, while showcasing some killer downhill rides!

The one time showing of this film will be Tuesday, October 13th at 8PM at the Live Arts Cinema on the Down Town Mall (123 East Water Street).

We’ll be meeting on the side of Echols and then drive to the downtown mall. We should be able to find street parking, but bring a dollar for parking just in case. We’ll leave at 7:30 and be back no later than 9:45. I’ll add more attendees as drivers sign up.

You can get tix right before the show, as long as you have exact cash or a check (made out to the UVA outdoors club) and we’ll also be selling tickets at gear room hours tonight and Monday night.  Tix are $8 (we got them reduced from $10- woot!) and you can pay by cash or check (made out to UVA Outdoors).

Additionally, the Freedom Riders are going to give UVA Outdoors Club a portion of the proceeds, so the more support we can give them the better!!!!

For more info, feel free to check out:

http://www.freedomridersthemovie.com/
or
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/64649

It’s going to be a great show!!!!!!!  Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity!!!!!!  

Cheers,

Lynn

Slightly more detailed/dramatic movie description:

Jackson Hole, WY- What if you were prohibited to ride your bike on the trails in your backyard? Right, you’d be pissed – can’t blame you. Instead, maybe your time would be spent mimicking your freeride bike skills on an Xbox, shelling out dollars to ride Whistler or salivating over old issues of Bike magazine.

The new high- definition freeride mountain bike film FREEDOM RIDERS by local producers KGB Productions and Gravnetic takes you on a singletrack, gravity fueled journey through the trails on Teton Pass (and elsewhere); and tells the story of how a tight-knit group of local dedicated riders (now the Teton Freedom Riders) worked diligently with the US Forest Service to create History in their backyard.

Rewind nine years or so. Teton pass didn’t have any freerie bike trails- unless you were in the secret, squirrel-lke group that knew of them. Illegal trails were being built on the Pass by a group of local renegade bikers and no one knew of these trails- not even the Forest Service. It wasn’t until a hiker on Teton Pass got lost on these trails and the Teton Country Serach and rescue couldn’t find them.

Trees were dropped on the illegal trails making them impassable by bike. The Forest Service wanted answers.

A handful of the riders who built the illegal trails stepped forward to the Forest Service admitted their wrong-doing and over the last few years have forged a strong, positive working relationship with the Forest Service to jointly build LEGAL trails on the Pass. With this partnership, in 2007, come the construction of the first-ever downhill specific mountain bike trail on Forest Service land in history.

Come be a part of this historical movement and enjoy the awesome biking shots on the way!!!!!