Does anyone else have a tendency to get depressed when look at our world’s wasteful ways, our seeming inability to divorce ourselves from destroying this lush, green and beautiful planet as we dedicate our lives to creation, consumption and procreation? As Vonnegut puts it, we’ve just about permanently damaged the planet with “100 years of [...]
“It’s like Jurrasic Park!” was an enthusiastic comment overheard from one of the participants in a brand new summer program put on by the Presidio YMCA and SF Urban Riders. This past week, the YMCA held their bicycle skills class, and for the first time, were able to bring children mountain biking without having to [...]
So many shoes, so many shoes, that our kids will soon have beautiful trails to ride and glorious bike parks to explore… Nike, the same powers that brought Union Square visitors the giant, gaunt, and intense poster of Lance Armstrong’s race face are now running a 650,000 dollar grant to support community and school groups [...]
If I were a scrappy young paperboy, I would be grabbing a whole bunch of copies of the SF Examiner, I would stand firmly on the corner of Market and Montgomery, and yell out ‘extra, EX-tra, read all about it! SF Urban Riders is going to bring a bike park to San Francisco!!’ But paperboys [...]
Only 29.99 to download the new iphone Advocacy app. Shake your phone at those pesky no bikes allowed signs and watch them disappear. Rotate the phone and blow on the microphone to build sustainable trails through any landscape. Fourcross and Freeride upgrades sold separately. Maybe it will never be that easy. It probably shouldn’t ever [...]
Many thanks to UCSF, San Francisco Park and Rec, and Speakeasy Brewery, who all committed resources to help this last Saturday’s Trail work happen. Many more thanks to everyone who contributed to the start of a wonderful connector trail between Edgewood Avenue and the rest of the Sutro Trails. Over 70 volunteers showed up to [...]
Please come down to San Francisco’s City Hall this Thursday, May 28th, from 6 to 7:30 pm. SF Rec and Park is going to hold a meeting to receive public input regarding a 5million dollar stimulus to existing trail networks in San Francisco’s natural areas. Wear a helmet in, state your piece. Tell the officials [...]
What is it about flowing along a trail that captures ever single mountain biker’s imagination so? Some of us may seek out big jumps. Some of us may work to keep our tires on the ground at all times. Some may go slower and some may go faster, some may prefer to fly down and [...]
The formation of SF Urban Riders is more of a story than I’ve time to relate in this little post, but in short, it began as an alliance between members of SFDirtlab, trying to bring a bicycle skills park to San Francisco, and members of the Mt. Sutro Stewards, working to establish improved multi use [...]
