Founded in 1988, IMBA has member clubs from all over America and several foreign nations. IMBA also has a wide ranging list of individual members, bicycle dealer members, and industry members. IMBA aids its members to solve their local or regional problems and improve the sport of mountain bicycling. IMBA lobbies directly at the national level, and works with national land management agencies. IMBA participates in the national efforts to establish and maintain trail networks and to gain better recognition of bicycles as excellent transportation vehicles.
Mountain bikes are a key toward achieving both the trails and transportation goals.
IMBA publishes its newsletter IMBA Trail News six times yearly. The Magellan Group is interested in promoting bicycle tourism through some of the most scenic, pristine, areas of the planet, paralleling the Magellan Strait in South America, from the Pacific Seaboard of Chile, across the Andean Cordillera, through the Patagonia, to the Atlantic Seaboard of Argentina. Since 1983, this is the international umbrella organization that promotes ultra marathon bicycling. Some more information is available at this unofficial web site . The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is dedicated to innovative research and analysis.