2021 is here...it's time to join or renew your SAMBA membership!!  Spartanburg Area Mountain Bike Association wants YOU to join us. We are a growing group of individuals who love to get out and enjoy our wonderful trails right here in Spartanburg. We have been working hard on cleaning up trails and adding signage at Croft State park and have much planned for 2021! We want you to be a part of everything that SAMBA has to offer. 2021 SAMBA Membership is $40 per person. → Click Here to JOIN ← $40 SAMBA Membership Includes: - $20 Gift Card to Trek Store Spartanburg if you join in January ..read more

All you trail builders and wanna be trail builders will like this. It the government standard Trail Construction and Maintenance Notebook. You can request a copy or download a pdf copy of it. Lots of good stuff in it to learn or refresh your trail building and maintenance skills. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/recreational_trails/publications/ As we move forward with SAMBA it is important to educate ourselves, both where we came from and where we are headed.  Read, ride, learn and teach ..read more

Will wonders never cease?  I was just pondering the signage at Croft yesterday and BAM! New signs appeared thanks to Steve Fincher @ Steve Fincher Photography.  Folks, things are getting better at Croft everyday. Come out and ride the trails around Croft. See for yourself.  There's nothing like it in the Upstate. Sounds like there are some more signs on the way and a trail phone app may even be coming. Momentum, its what give us the rush we seek and it is also what is going to make the Spartanburg area a mountain biking destination very soon ..read more

SAMBA- Spartanburg Area Mountain Bike Association formed in 2013 to bring all the various mountain biking groups and riders together for the betterment of mountain biking, trail maintenance, construction, and education in Spartanburg, South Carolina. SAMBA was born of necessity. Spartanburg did not have a mountain bike specific group that represented the interests of the mountain biking community. This is our effort to change that status. If you mountain bike - tell your friends and lets get organized! There are many mountain bikers in the Upstate that call Spartanburg or the surrounding ..read more