If you don't have the free time to participate in club activities on any level because you are very busy amassing your personal fortune, think about renewing this year at a higher dollar level in the Singletrack Society. Just looking at bike and gear prices assures us that there are many affluent bikers out there. Twenty members renewed at higher levels last year and it has made a dramatic difference in the look and quality of the club and has expanded our outreach through our web site and improved communications. This is a vital way to improve our advocacy mission. Get a friend to join.
Nothing speaks louder to a land manager than a huge, organized group of rabid voters.
It is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. The bigger the wheel, the bigger the squeak, the bigger the squeak, the more grease you get. With the number of mountain bikers in the East Bay alone, we should have triple our membership , with a hundred active members doing advocacy work of all types. We have an equal right to share in these remarkable open spaces, but we certainly don't have an equal amount of dedicated time invested in their creation and maintenance. We should be copying a page a day out of the equestrian's advocacy handbook and making it our own.