I found the article that was in The Lake Norman Times.

"Jetton Park, Tarheel Trailblazers give handicapped mountain bikers a place to ride
By Dru Willis, LAKE NORMAN TIMES

Beginning mountain bike and adaptive sports enthusiasts now have a trail to travel near Lake Norman now that Jetton II is open in Cornelius' Jetton Park.

"It's a little flowey," Tom Matthews of the Tarheel Trailblazers said of the trail. "It doesn't have a lot of elevation change on it but it's a real fun trail."
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The Trailblazers designed the trail after Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation officials approached them to build a trail on 19 acres at the Jetton Park site.

While the group prefers to work with lots the size of 200 acres or more - which can house a 12-13 mile trail — they figured, "sometime to get you have got to give" Matthews said.

The club has also applied for a grant through the North Carolina Department of Land and Natural Resources to help them build a three-mile beginner-adaptive trail in the Southwest District Park, which they hope to complete by late fall.

It was Cornelius resident Tim Caldwell who had the idea to adapt the 1.1-mile trail in Cornelius into one that could be used by regular mountain bikers but also disabled adaptive sports enthusiasts who use a hand-cycle or "trike."

Caldwell, who is now attending college in Texas and is confined to a wheelchair, wanted to be able to ride his hand cycle on the trail.

"I think its great. It's a trail that is not only going to accommodate the people that would normally use it but is a trail that accommodates them as well, so it's doing more things for them, which I think is great for them," said Stephanie Frisbee, manager of the Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation Department's North District.

Finding a manufacturer of off-road wheelchair hand cycles and the money to purchase them was the difficult part until Transamerica Reinsurance made a $10,000 donation to purchase two hand cycles at $5,000 apiece, Matthews said.

"These are amazing pieces of equipment," he added. "They are very interesting. They really are."

The two trikes are available at The Cycle Path bike shop in Cornelius (located at 20900 N. Main St.) for free rental by anyone with a valid drivers license and credit card.

Matthews said several people had taken the trikes out for a test run recently and found them to be punishing.

"We as able-bodied individuals can actually (get) leverage by using our legs and stuff, but physically challenged folks cannot, its harder for them," he said.

Some have even tipped over and fallen down, just as you would on a normal bike, which is just part of the off-road experience, Matthews said.

"You fall down, you go boom. You ride up a mountain and more than likely you are going to tip over," he explained. "But these guys, especially the younger guys, they still want to feel that jolt."

There are young, amputated veterans of war coming back to the area, people who have been in a wheelchair for years and everything in between and the course will allow them to go past where the asphalt ends, encouraging others to join them, Matthews hopes.

"Now we are going to actually going to be able to get them back into the woods, back into nature and the serenity of it all," he said. "That is one of the things we are trying to provide to these guys.""