2014 Bell Built Winners Recap

Another hotly contested year of the Bell Built program has wrapped up for 2014 with $100,000 in building grants being split between three winners across the continent.

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Bell West Coast Winner
Out of the four western regional finalists, the Ft. Tuthill Bike Park in Flagstaff, AZ, rallied up the most votes and will be one of the three winning projects to split the $100,000 Bell Built prize money. The grant will help fund the construction of the beginner and intermediate trails at the proposed bike park project, which will be open to the public for the entire mountain biking community to enjoy.




Ft. Tuthill Bike Park, Flagstaff, AZ

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Bell Central Region Winner
Out of the four Central regional finalists, the Cottage Grove Bike Park in Cottage Grove, Minn., pulled in the most votes out of the four Central region finalists (12,322 votes to be exact). The Cottage Grove Bike Park, headed up by the Minnesota Off-Road Cyclists (MORC), will split the $100,000 in grant money to help secure the funding to complete the dirt jump section of the park, which will go alongside the 4x race track, two pump tracks, a tots track, slope-style course and a mountain bike skills course.


Cottage Grove Bike Park, Cottage Grove, MN

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Bell East Coast Winner
With 13,896 votes being accumulated in the last two weeks, the Richmond Regional Ride Center in Richmond, VA, will take home the final slot as the winner of the East region.


The Richmond Regional Ride Center, headed up by RVA MORE, will split the $100,000 in grant money with the two other regional winners (Ft. Tuthill Bike Park in Flagstaff, AZ, and the Cottage Grove Bike Park in Cottage Grove, MN). With help from both Bell Helmets and those at IMBA, this grant money will help secure the funding to rehabilitate 15 miles of existing mountain bike trail and construct an additional 20 miles of trail. Their goal is to incorporate approximately 15 miles of stacked-loop singletrack, and an additional 5 miles of flow trail, which will focus on a progression of difficulty. The project will also focus on improving the existing trails on-site to diversity trails and depth of experience, along with developing a new gateway trail with two loops for novices, children, handcycles and bicycles pulling child-trailers.

Richmond Regional Ride Center, Richmond, VA

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