Attention All Mountain Bikers (aka “non-motorized vehicle or conveyance” riders.)

In accordance with state law, all Pennsylvania State Game Lands and Hillman State Park (Bavington – operated jointly by the Bureau of State Parks and the State Game Commission) are closed for mountain biking until after 1PM Monday through Saturday from April 30th to May
31th for Spring Gobbler Season.

However, the current
Hunting Season & Bag
Limits published by the State Game
Commission state that for this
year’s Spring Gobbler Season:
“from May 16-31,
legal hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise until one-half hour after sunset.”
So please also refrain from riding on State Game
Lands and Hillman State Park during those days (except Sundays).

Please help PTAG continue the productive relationship we have established with local land managers by respecting this regulation.
Thanks!

References:

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=576240&mode=2

http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/058/chapter135/subchapCtoc.html

Ben Staud
PTAG Bavington Point of Contact
412-335-4256

Someone stole my commuter bike this morning. I’m pissed, like really pissed. Here are the details:

time: 8am-9am
place: chislett st, morningside (next to highland park)
bike: 07 se lager. brown frame, black bullhorn bars, grey tires/silver rims. has a dorc sticker on the seat tube, and a small thick sticker on the top tube along with a one less car sticker on the right seatstay and an urban velo sticker on the left seatstay. Black selle italia saddle on a carbon post, ritchey double sided spd pedals and ultegra brake arches. had a clip on fender and a couple knog frog lights on it too.

heres a catalog shot…

Reward if returned unharmed. Seriously, i love that bike.

from the porc forum:

Shadyside area;
Bike stolen ,car window smashed.

*Titanium Titus 29er (one of a kind)
~Orange Chris King, hubs & head set
~Silver Magura Marta brakes
~XTR cranks
~XO rear derailleur
~Maxxis tires

If seen call Police asap !

?’s 412 795 7444

Keep an eye out Please.

Original Thread

- On Fri, 4/17/09, Brian DelVecchio wrote:

From: Brian DelVecchio
Subject: Please consider sending this out to your riders

The following message is really important, and I hope you all will consider helping, because we are now at serious risk of losing trail access in a section of North Park. Recently the park naturalist “taped” off access to trails at the nature center that she claims were recently
built and are rogue (I think her position, as conveyed to me, is patently false, but I won’t know what she is claiming until I meet with her in person). I know several riding groups want continued access to some trails there. I want to preserve access to those trails because
(1) they are good trails,
(2) they have been there years, and
(3) thus far, no one has given us a good reason as to why they should be off limits to riding (except of course the Braille Trail).
So I need your input as soon as possible as to what you would like to remain open. Maybe you want all of them open (PTAG will support that).
Please call email me or call me at 412-559-0470. We can also meet tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. on Ridge at the work-day to discuss it (if you have other
stuff to do, no one will expect you to stay and work after this meeting). Please come to help keep these trails open to riders – whether you love PTAG or hate us, we need your input. Riders now risk the wholesale loss of existing riding rights in that area. The Park Director called me this a.m. informing me that he, Meg (the naturalist) and I will have to walk the trails, and I presume he will make a decision after that. Thank you for your time and please feel free to send this email to other “posses” who may not
read PORC, PTAG, or other forums.

Please also be aware that the Park Naturalist reads the forums and monitors our activities.

Posted By: Chris

Coming soon(ish):

Thick Jersey Design

Ask Chris about ordering one for yourself, or join the Thick Bikes MS150 team and raise at least $250 and get one for free!