River Valley Cycling

Supporting Cycling In and Around Fredericton

Introducing RVC’s Bearcat

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Success!

After a 6 week fundraising campaign RVC exceeded its goal and collected more than $5,000 in support of winter biking in the Fredericton area. It is so great to be a small cog in a big community that loves the outdoors and winter trails. From individuals who gave us $10 where they could to outstanding local businesses like the Radical Edge and Explore Velo who donated significant amounts – RVC appreciates your support!

Today we’re proud to introduce you to the newest member of our grooming fleet: a 2016 Artic Cat Bearcat!

This machine replaces ‘Fat Panther’ who retires from RVC’s fleet after a distinguished career and Bearcat isn’t wasting time making its mark. RVC Groomers Dave and Andy took it through the entire Woolastook winter network today on its inaugural run. Nice work guys! The plan is to keep Bearcat based in Woolastook for now but this machine could make appearances at other networks!

If you get out to Woolastook today let us know what you think. If you see riders enjoying the trails ask them if they remembered to join RVC Winterbike for 2022. If you see Dave and Andy out grooming there this winter stop and let them know that you appreciate their work.

Once again – to our winterbike members and GoFundMe supporters – a thousand thank you’s from the RVC team!

Winterbike Plan 2022 – Deer Park

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Deer Park is a great place to introduce people to winter riding for the first time. The woods are nice, you’re never too far away from the car, and the terrain is easy going. That’s why RVC is so happy to support the grooming there. It rounds out what we have to offer at MVP and Woolastook really well.

For 2022 the plan is going to keep 7km of the primary singletrack and double track open. There’s plenty more singletrack in the park and we suspect that the snowshoe activity will have it opened up most of the time. It should be a worthwhile place to ride.

Grooming takes extraordinary volunteers. These people are often out for long hours in the cold and sometimes in the worst weather. Thanks Troy for stepping up once again to take this on!

If you’re not sure about winter riding go take a spin in Deer Park. We’ll let you know once the grooming starts (last night was a total bust… what happened to the snow we were supposed to get!!!). If you give it a spin and you like it enough to want to support our grooming effort please consider Joining RVC Winterbike for 2022.

Winterbike plans 2022 – MVP

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It’s January 7th and we’re finally looking to get our first dump of snow today in a nor’easter. RVC is excited. You’re excited. Dan and Todd are excited.

So what better day than to tell you about the grooming plan for MVP this winter!

For 2022 MVP will have ~ 22 km of groomed singletrack. This includes most of the Flight Deck area and we’ve got the trail building crew’s support to groom Monkey Business this year too. For you riders who have never ventured over to ride Greg’s Way in the summer make sure to go check it out in the winter. The Back 40 is a game changing connection and it open’s up access to the Greg’s way area. Back 40 is a hilariously good trail in it’s own right. We’ll keep the parking lot open all winter so that you don’t have to brave narrow slushy roads to get to the riding. We’ll also keep the Trailforks map up to date but remember to hit the ‘winter trails’ option on the map and you may need to refresh the data on your phone app.

MVP mountain biking trails

Keeping 22 km of singletrack groomed takes a lot of resources and a heroic effort from the groomers! You can get your 2022 RVC Winterbike membership here to access the trails and support the grooming. Also, if you love winter trails and want to take your support one step further please check out our GoFundMe campaign. We have one week left to try and meet our fundraising target of $5,000 to get the grooming team some updated and more reliable equipment. We are so close and even small donations are a big help. Thank you!

Winterbike plans 2022 – Woolastook

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Riders!

We’re busy planning for the Winterbike season as you know. Your Winterbike membership supports trail grooming at several locations in the Fredericton area. We’re going to be releasing our grooming plans over the month of December starting with Woolastook today.

This year RVC groomers will keep a little more than 14 km of trail open at Woolastook. The layout here will let riders plan out routes using stacked loops so lots of distance options will be available if your the type of person who’s fingers are freezing before you put in a full 14 km (get pogies though.. for real). You’ll want to build up to a full distance ride though because the winter lookout is worth it. We won’t tell anyone if we see you pushing your bike up the last bit of that steep hill up to the lookoff – we promise.

Woolastook mountain biking trails

This grooming plan is what you can expect RVC will keep open for the duration but from time to time we’ll probably be able to enjoy a few other pieces of singletrack opened up by volunteer snowshoers. If you want to update your Trailforks app the winter mode map is now up to date.

Remember, you can join RVC Winterbike right now for 2022 and you can also support our GoFundMe campaign to upgrade our grooming fleet!

Winterbike 2022 Launch

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RVC Winterbike 2022 is on!


Our registration for Winterbike is now open and we want you to sign up. Your membership goes towards grooming at 3 great trail systems: MVP, Woolastook, and Deer Park. Stay connected to us on Facebook and Instagram to get regular updates on snow conditions throughout the season. We’ll be posting our grooming plans for each area in the next few days.

This year RVC is also launching a GoFundMe campaign with the goal of raising $5,000 by January 15th to get our groomers some more reliable equipment. We’ll be posting updates regularly throughout the campaign. We’re asking for your support – whether you fatbike every day or just enjoy getting out on your snowshoes in the areas that we groom. You’ll notice this year that we’re redirecting all of our donations to this campaign – so there’s not going to be a ‘gold’ or ‘platinum’ level membership option. If you want to give us some extra love – please head towards the GoFundMe.

We are really excited about this upcoming season. RVC will be supporting a beginner level group fatbike ride starting in January and we’ve heard some rumours about new winterbike trailheads being added in Fredericton later this year. Very interesting! We’ll also be posting advice and tips throughout the season about how to get the most out of your ride and how to practice good winter riding etiquette.

So please support us and join RVC Winterbike!

Proud Members of: Velo New Brunswick

Canadian Cycling Association

International Mountain Biking Association