Happy to say that the RideSFO expo was quite a success. SF Urban Riders extends a great hearty thank you to everyone who bought a raffle ticket, everyone who came out, and everyone who stopped by our booth to offer words of support and thoughts.
Through the community’s contributions, we were able to raise about [...]
For those of you that missed it, a beautiful film has been put together documenting the great trail workday that took place in McLaren Park this last August. It really is a beautiful take on the wide variety of people that get some wonderful satisfaction through spending a day in the woods. Good [...]
Maureen, ‘Mo” Devlin started riding her bike in the ‘burbs of Detroit for fun, for getting around, and never thought too much about it. Now she thinks about riding all the time: how to make riding bikes better for going to work, having fun, for getting stuff done. Though she considers herself a roadie, she [...]
Win a Marin Alcatraz Dirt Jump Bike @ the SF Bike Expo, worth $1199.99. Half of the proceeds go to the SF Urban Riders Mclaren Park Bicycle Park and the other half will go towards putting on AT’s Showdown.
Come out this Friday to buy raffle tickets, eat pizza, drink beer, and meet the Marin Dirt [...]
Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if you could ride the wonderful trails in marin and not worry about Ranger Rick? Times could be a changin’ if we’ll just get together and act. This just in from Access for Bikes, the off road bicycle advocacy group in Marin: (you may remember this section of the page [...]
San Francisco Off Road Riding
We’ve met you on the trail, at a race, or maybe somewhere down in the Mission. All of us have one thing in common, we love to ride bicycles in the dirt. Some of us got together to form the San Francisco Urban Riders in order to promote off-road [...]
Wow! Has SF Urban Riders really made all this incredible trail progress in just TWO short years?
YES – With the help of many other open space advocacy organizations, our members have stood up and made a real difference for improved multi use trail recreation in San Francisco.
Now we are ready to enjoy Indian Summer and [...]
Update on the fight for trails. It looks like MTB users made a good showing @ the board of supervisors meeting in Marin yesterday. Still a divisive issue, however, with nearly half of the attendees there to keep mountain bikes off trails.
The good news is that the open space supervisors seem to acknowledge that to [...]
Why SF Urban Riders? Why bother? Because of the pure enjoyment that comes from gathering good people together, and enjoying the experience of a bicycle adventure together. Laughing, looking, and leaning through turns and berms, one after another. That’s why we lead group rides. That’s why we’re working to create more off road opportunities in [...]
The great Tasmanian blue gum and its management on Mt Sutro,
By Jake Sigg
The Tasmanian blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus, is surely one of the world’s great trees, but in recent decades it has become the center of controversy in California. This controversy—most of it uninformed—has unfortunately obscured the tree’s merits [...]
