Group rides, kids rides, women’s rides, skills clinics, action workouts. All riders and all abilities welcome. Vendors, bike demos, live music, mountain bike movies, BBQ, raffles and prizes.
Registration closes at midnight on Wednesday, 7/14

Check out the line up for this years festival.... shop vendors will include Onion River Sports (Montpelier), Five Hills Bikes (Waterbury), and Skier Shop (Stowe). With demo bikes from Specialized, Niner, Trek, Norco, Giant, Eastern Woods Research and Cannondale. Other supporters include Wilderness Trail Bikes, Smith Optics, Oakley, Nemo Tents and Equipment, Osprey Packs, and Gamut-USA, along with the Vermont Peanut Butter Company, Mocean Mate, Ben and Jerry's and The Alchemist.

Group rides will be led in Waitsfield by Dave Rowles and our friends from Stark Mountain Bike Works; with shuttle runs led by Knight and Lilias Ide from Ideride – bring your big bike and armor for that trip! Group rides will be held in Waterbury and Stowe, led by local guides from the Stowe Mountain Bike Club, with more group rides in Hinesburg, led by guides from the Fellowship of the Wheel – you’ve heard about the Preacher Trail in Hinesburg, right? Well this is your chance to ride it, with local gals and guys showing you the way.

We will have a womens’ skills clinic and trail ride in Waterbury led by the Girls Move Mountains - Dirt Divas Program, there will be pre-ride stretches, warm-ups and workouts led by Mocean365, and there will be kids rides on the Waterbury trails led by Wheels Around Waterbury.

All-in-all, the 2010 festival is coming together very well, and it looks to big a much bigger event this year. Saturday afternoon entertainment will be provided by The Concrete Rivals, along with a BBQ and free Ben and Jerry's for everyone! On the Saturday night we will hold a party at the Reservoir Taproom in Waterbury, with free schwag, beer specials, mountain bike movies, and more live music.

Keep it on your calendar for July 17- 18, 2010, and watch this page for more updates over the next weeks, ride on...

Checkout the Stowe Street Arts Festival on July 16-17 also