{"id":16408,"date":"2025-07-22T21:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16408\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:41:12","slug":"nsmba-board-member-resigns-after-confrontation-at-mount-fromme-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16408\/","title":{"rendered":"NSMBA board member resigns after confrontation at Mount Fromme lot"},"content":{"rendered":"

A board member with the North Shore Mountain Bike Association<\/a> (NSMBA) has stepped down following an aggressive confrontation at the Fromme parking lot that was widely shared on social media.<\/p>\n

According to posts from local rider Alex Chapellier<\/a>, the incident began when a man\u2014later identified as and NSMBA boardmember\u2014was seen urinating beside his car at the busy lot. Chapellier pointed out the nearby public washroom, commenting that the area would \u201cstink if everyone did that.\u201d The director allegedly laughed, became aggressive and escalated the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe walked to my bike and started to unscrew my valve to deflate my tire,\u201d wrote Chapellier in an Instagram story. \u201cI told him to get off my bike and that\u2019s when he pushed me and tried to hit me. He then kept on pretending to charge at me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The director\u2019s wife also became involved, according to Chapellier, filming him at close range as tensions flared.<\/p>\n

NSMBA issues official response<\/p>\n

In a statement posted to Instagram, the NSMBA confirmed the incident involved one of their board members and acknowledged \u201cthe seriousness of this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAn NSMBA board member was seen urinating in the Fromme parking lot and was confronted,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThe exchange that followed was documented by one of the parties and shared on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n

The association said the board convened immediately and that the member had \u201cvoluntarily stepped back\u201d while a review was conducted. Shortly after, Chapellier confirmed that the accused director had officially resigned.<\/p>\n

Calls for accountability<\/p>\n

Chapellier thanked the NSMBA for following up, but emphasized that the issue wasn\u2019t public urination\u2014it was violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the main issue. His violent behaviour is,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt could\u2019ve been such an easy situation to resolve. Admit your wrongdoing and move on. Instead, he chose to be aggressive, tampered with my bike, and tried to instigate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chapellier added that public urination in North Vancouver carries a $200 fine and suggested the director donate that amount to the NSMBA.<\/p>\n

A reminder to be better on the trails<\/p>\n

Chapellier ended his string of posts on a hopeful note, thanking trail builders and encouraging riders to look out for one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cSay hi on the trails,\u201d he wrote. \u201cRemember how lucky we are to spend time in the forest. And don\u2019t be a d*ck.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A board member with the North Shore Mountain Bike Association (NSMBA) has stepped down following an aggressive confrontation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,1700,82],"class_list":["post-16408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-mtb-features","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}