Fruita Fat Tire Festival



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“18 and FINALLY LEGAL”
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Thursday April 25

  • VIP Registration Open 3-6 pm – Civic Center downtown Fruita (late registration at VIP Party)
  • Expo set up
  • DT SWISS – Continental Tires VIP Party 6 pm – Late… Free Food and New Belgium Beer while it lasts, VIP Pass Required or $20 Door Charge until 9 pm 

Friday April 26

  • Expo Open– Bike Demo’s – 9-6 pm
  • 4-7 pm KEEN Rippin Chix Skills Camp – beginner/intermediate, http://www.alisongannett.com/bike
  • VIP Registration 10 am-6 pm at Fruita Civic Center
  • Rides (see Bulletin Board at Beer Tent)
  • Friday Party at Civic Center; 6 – 9 pm
  • Live Music at 4-9 pm
  • New Belgium Beer Garden till 9 pm
  • Prizes and Bottle Walk Contest 

Saturday April 27

  • 8:00 AM – FREE Pancake Breakfast presented US Bank & COPMOBA at the Civic Center-donations encouraged to support COPMOBA’s effort to maintain local trails
  • Live Music! 3-9 pm
  • New Belgium Beer Garden till 9 pm
  • Expo Open– Bike Demo’s – 9-6 pm
  • 10 am-1 pm KEEN Rippin Chix Skills Camp – intermediate/advanced intermediate, http://www.alisongannett.com/bike
  • Rides – on your own or see bulletin board at beer tent
  • Clunker Hunt!! To support COPMOBA! 2 person teams! - Info/Registration at http://www.copmoba.org/page.cfm?pageid=21087
  • Sombrio Pump Track Pursuit presented by US Bank 3:30 pm
    Sign up at the Sombrio Rig, Friday evening. Registration requires completing track waiver and placing name/phone number in the hat for seeding draws at the end of the night. Texts will be sent to each participant Saturday morning to remind them of their race time. On Saturday, two 30 minute prelim rounds (16 riders in each, 32 spots overall, though could double up to 64 if demand is there) one hour apart, followed by a 15 minute final. Prelims will be three laps, finals five with a simple elimination format. Finals are a 5th place race (4 riders, 3 rounds), a 3rd/4th (2 riders, 1 round), and a 1st/2nd (2 riders, 1 round).
  • The Annual Saturday Night Festival Party
  • Prize drawings and give aways

Sunday April 28

  • One Last Ride
  • 3-5 pm “Finale” Coffee Social at Over the Edge Sports 

Friday, May 3

  • 18 Hours of Fruita at Highline Lake
  • Starts at Midnight at Highline Lake State Park
  • Finishes at 6 pm Saturday May 4th

Rides and trail information will be posted at the information tent in Civic Center Park during the festival. 

 

 

FESTIVAL VIP PASS

$30 EARLY BIRD PRICING UNTIL MARCH 1, $35 until April 15, $40 April 16 through and including the Festival dates.

VIP Party - Thursday night April 25, with beer, drinks and catered food, all free with your VIP registration.

VIP Prize drawing - Fruita Fat Tire fest is famous for the great prizes we give away; the big prizes (over $5,000 value) will be given away to Registered VIP’s via a name drawing and NOT to random attendees

VIP Gift Pack - – Commemorative festival t-shirt, special offers from Over the Edge Sports, Festival Exhibitors, local businesses and other promotional items in the VIP registration packet

NEW BELGIUM BEER - two free to all VIP’s.

VIP Passes are non-refundable and non-transferable.

HOW TO REGISTER BY MAIL

Complete the VIP entry form and mail with your check (made payable to Event Marketing Group LLC) by April 15 to:

Fruita Fat Tire Festival
c/o Event Marketing Group LLC
14128 Blue River Trail
Broomfield, CO 80023

HOW TO REGISTER ON LINE

Go directly to www.active.com to register.

Having technical difficulties with Active.com? Contact the Active help line at 1-877-228-4881 or email support@activenetwork.com.

CLUNKER HUNT

This fun and challenging scavenger hunt will begin Saturday, 2 pm, April 27 at the Fruita Civic Center. For only $25, teams of two will join in the task of completing crazy stunts at selected checkpoints with the winners determined by fastest time. Bring your favorite bike, helmet and costume and be prepared for some fat tire fun. Your contributions to this event will help support the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association whose mission is to build and maintain singletrack trails on the Colorado Plateau.

You may pre-register on the COPMOBA website, www.COPMOBA.org beginning February 1, and during Festival VIP registration (Civic Center Park) Thursday, April 25, 3-6 pm, Friday, April 26, 10 am- 6 pm and at the US Bank pancake breakfast Saturday, April 27, 8 am. Entry fees are $25.00 team and will include 2 free beer coupons/team for those over the age of 21. There will be cool trophies for the first three places. After the Hunt enjoy music and brews at Civic Center Park. PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT ON THE COPMOBA SITE OR IN PERSON AT THE FEST.

PLEASE HELP BUILD MORE FRUITA TRAILS – DONATE NOW!

You come to Fruita to enjoy the trails – so we, the Fruita riders and trail builders, are making more of them!

Fruita’s world class trail network is about to be expanded. After much local planning and scheming, over 20 miles of new trails are laid out and approved for construction in the North Fruita Desert area (aka 18 Road).  Funding to get started is in place, but much more needs to be raised to complete all of this new singletrack and continue the planning for yet more.  We’ve established a fundraising campaign called Forty Days of Fruita Trails to do just that, and our website highlighting the trail building and fundraising effort is located at www.FruitaSingletrack.com/donate/.

Direct donations are needed and can be made on the website through our local non-profit trails organization, the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trails Association (COPMOBA), and will go only to the Fruita trails effort.

The new all-singletrack routes in the North Fruita Desert area (18 Road) will include:

  • A central two mile rollercoaster descending flow line with jumps and berms – awesome!
  • A new addition with extreme jump line and roll-through capable features that adds new definition to the 18 Road ride experience.  Think Kessel Run on steroids.
  • Several miles of the flowy, groovy, high desert singletrack that is so satisfying and the hallmark of North Fruita Desert.
  • Over twelve miles of technical backcountry singletrack that further expands the Edge Loop into a knockout epic in the Bookcliffs overlooking the valley.
  • A skill building loop near the campground area targeted at entry level riders and local to the campsites.  Similar to Rustlers Loop in the Kokopelli area, but better!

The new trails were planned by a broad group of local riders, and have the full support of the City of Fruita and the Bureau of Land Management.  The first two of these routes were in place for the 2012 Fruita Fat Tire Festival.  But we need your help to move ahead with the entire plan and get the full set of new trails on the ground right away.

Go to the www.Fruitasingletrack.com website, find out more about the project, rider comments, organizer ideas, and donate to the effort to expand and improve the trials in Fruita.

BLM PUBLIC LANDS KEY TO FAT TIRE FESTIVAL

Public lands and trails managed by the Bureau of Land Management are a key component of the Fruita Fat Tire Festival, which gets underway for its 18th year April 25-28.

The festival highlights the many mountain biking opportunities in the Fruita area, including the North Fruita Desert and McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area, both managed by the BLM Grand Junction Field Office. Rides on surrounding public land trails, for all skill levels, are popular during the festival.

“In 2012 , we have completed two new trails in the North Fruita Desert – Pump Track and Zip-Off – and one new trail in McInnis Canyons NCA, the Mack Ridge Connector Trail,” said Michelle Bailey, assistant field manager for recreation and cultural.

These three new singletrack trails, along with several more planned for the fall of 2012, were planned and constructed in coordination with the City of Fruita, Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association, Western Colorado Conservation Corps, and the newly formed Grand Valley Trails Alliance.

“BLM recognizes that recreation on public lands is important to the local economy,” Bailey said. “We are able to provide diverse recreational experiences through our strong relationships with our cooperators and user groups.”

The BLM’s North Fruita Desert Campground is a popular destination for mountain bikers enjoying the area. Beginning in the fall of 2012, BLM will begin a fee program that will help improve the campground and allow additional sites to be constructed.

“This year we really want to stress to visitors how dry the conditions are,” Bailey said. “That means there’s a high fire danger, but it also means the vegetation is particularly sensitive to disturbance. It’s really important for riders to stay on designated trails and within the single tracks to keep them nice, narrow, super-fun trails.”

Visitors to the festival are reminded that no camping is allowed off Little Park Road or in McInnis Canyons NCA, with the exception of designated sites in Rabbit Valley. All fires must be contained in a fire pan or designated fire pit within the North Fruita Desert and McInnis Canyons NCA. Fire wood collection is prohibited. BLM encourages everyone to practice “Leave No Trace” and be considerate of others also enjoying their public lands.

For more information about trails in the Grand Valley, please contact Dave Grossman with the Grand Valley Trails Alliance, (970) 462-7151, http://gvtrails.com.

For more information about recreation on BLM lands in the Grand Junction Field Office, log onto  http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/gjfo/recreation.html.

MORE INFORMATION

Bike Shipping Point and Bike Rentals available at Over the Edge Sports 970-858-7220 www.otesports.com

Contact Event Marketing Group at emgmh@emgcolorado.com for additional information!

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