Looking for a group to ride with? The Roanoke Chapter of the International Mountain Bicycling Association (RIMBA) might be your answer.

• Help protect and improve mountain bike trail access in the Roanoke Region of Virginia
• Support trail building and trail maintenance activities.
• Participate in local rides and events with great people who love off-road cycling and who are stewards of the trails.
• Keep informed of trail access issues in our region.
• Support the wonderful work that IMBA is doing at the national level.
• Enjoy a variety of IMBA member benefits.

Regardless of whether you are a member or not, you're invited to join club members on one of their weekly rides.

 

Find out more about the weekly rides and Roanoke IMBA >>>  

July is East Coasters' Ride Local Month and what better way to celebrate than with a bicycling film and a raffle for a $500 shopping spree?

 

"Reveal the Path" is an adventure film that contemplates what it means to live an inspired life using the bicycle as a mechanism to explore, dream and discover. Ride along and get lost in Scotland, Morocco, Nepal, and Alaska in a movie that was filmed across four continents.

 

"Reveal the Path" is showing Wednesday, July 11, at The Shadowbox in downtown Roanoke. The show starts at 7:30 p.m., tickets are $2 at the door, and proceeds will go to Roanoke IMBA.

 

Also make sure to buy a ticket for the East Coasters raffle going on this month. Each East Coasters' location is raffling a $500 store shopping spree. Proceeds from the raffle will support the "Bridge the Gap" campaign, which is working to raise $7 million to complete 4.1 miles of the Roanoke River Greenway from Bridge Street in Roanoke to Rotary Park in Salem, as well as Friends of the Huckleberry trail in the New River Valley.

 

The big month for East Coasters does not stop there. They are also hosting Dirty Dawg Mountain Bike Races on July 21 and 22 and donating $5 for every mountain bike sold this month to Roanoke IMBA and $5 for every road and hybrid bike sold to local greenways.

 

It is a great month to enjoy cycling!

 

Check out the movie trailer >>> 

By Scott DeSimon for Bon Appetit

Am I the only person who hasn't heard of "cooler corn"?

As an obsessive food nerd, you'd expect that I would have at least heard of it, but I was blindsided by the simple genius of this method for cooking loads of corn on the cob.

Short story: We like corn on the cob. And with eight adults at the table, that means a couple of dozen ears. We would have used the lobster pot to cook them all, but the lobster pot was busy steaming lobster. Then my sister, a capable Maine cook with years of camping experience says "let's do cooler corn!" A Coleman cooler appears from the garage, is wiped clean, and filled with shucked ears. Next, two kettles of boiling water are poured over the corn and the top is closed.

When we sat down to dinner 30 minutes later and opened it, the corn was perfectly cooked.

Read more about Cooler Corn from Bon Appetit >>>