In 1988, CORBA approached both National Parks and State Parks and began talks about setting up a volunteer mountain bike patrol. The Mountain Bike Unit (MBU) was formed as the first volunteer program in the nation that was co-sponsored by both a Federal and State agency. The MBU became a model program for IMBA’s National Mountain Bike Patrol and other mountain bike units around the country, and later spun-off from CORBA to become an award-winning entity of its own.
