Category: Blog

Hello MCMBA Community!   We are refreshing and expanding our online presence so that we can serve a larger segment of the biking community. A huge part of this success, as in all things we do, is YOU!   Please follow MCMBA and tag us in your trail and bike photos and posts: Facebook –…

  Come join us for a day of riding bikes around Milford’s well-connected trail system! Did you know that 5 single track mountain bike trails are fully accessible from Downtown Milford?  Join the Motor City Mountain Biking Association for the Milford Bike Fest and Trail Challenge as we showcase some of our favorite mountain bike…

Please join us in thanking our MCMBA FAFL winners for 2020!  This was a year like no other. A quiet desperation for outside recreation in our communities meant that parks were busier than ever, filled with new users discovering and falling in love with the trails that we help maintain and sometimes take for granted.…

As the MCMBA is planning for 2021, we would like to get your thoughts and opinions on Southeast Michigan trails and MCMBA activities. This survey will help us focus on efforts that grow our membership and are important to our stakeholders, like you! The survey should take about 5 minutes and all responses will be…

It’s been an unusual summer for trail work. Aside from an early spring trail day or two, most of our work on trails this year has been a solitary effort—one person in the forest making a difference. Despite the challenges a lot has been accomplished over the past few months. Several miles of new trail…

Saturay, June 6 On Your Own While Maintaining Social Distance From the Event Organizers: June 6th would have been our annual gathering of the Milford Bike Festival. While we cannot safely gather onto a crowded deck this year, two things are still true: bikes are not cancelled, and trails are not cancelled. In fact, trails…

Peanut Butter Hill got a little extra crunchy thanks to some new gravel in the notoriously slick spots. Volunteers also did some bench cut repairs and built up the berm on the s-turn. Click here to see more!

The rooty, eroded rutted out tight downhill in the Pines has been upgraded with big carveable berms and a rock pile that is rollable or jumpable. You can also bypass it by continuing on the berm next to it. It’s a fun improvement that should flow better, drain better, slow down the brake bumps and…

Check out the new rock features that have been added to Settlers Park. As always, take a moment to look before you ride and know what you are getting into.   

The new Northville Trails are open and ready for use. There is an official opening planned for mid-June, but the trails are open for general use. The mountain bike trail is around 2 miles (for now) and well-suited to beginners. Please be aware, the surface needs to be packed down and can get pretty soft…