It is a new year, and a new era at the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. SFRPD has stepped up to offer more focus on contemporary recreation like Thai Kickboxing, Kayaking, Geocache Adventuring, and even Mountain Biking. The developing partnership between SFUR and SFRPD has produced a winner: The Women’s Mountain Bike Boot Camp. [...]
The Sutro Stewards is a key partner of SF Urban Riders in the efforts to design and construct better trails in our larger open spaces like Mount Sutro (UCSF). SFUR volunteers are key to the Stewards effort and show up every month to work tirelessly on trails or in the summit garden. The Sutro Stewards [...]
The rumors have been swirling for about two years now, and just when you blink for a second, it all materializes quickly into reality. The San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department has officially commenced the Trail Planning Process for the Glen Canyon, and Twin Peaks trail systems. The meetings hold significant importance as it will [...]
This year has been a tremendous success for SF Urban Riders, but we are saving the best for last. The IMBA Trail Care Crew will be in San Francisco this weekend December 3-5 and there are a few ways to get involved and have fun. If you have trail experience, or need to burn off [...]
Everyone who visited the Ride SFO Bike Expo in 2010 was treated to a stellar event. The whole thing was bigger and better, and that definitely included the Cyclocross race, A.T.’s Showdown, and of course the SFUR Bike Skills Area…. which this year was a full on pumptrack. There are several great photos of the [...]
The San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department has recently restructured in an effort to provide a wider variety of healthy, contemporary recreational services to the community. We at SF Urban Riders have perused the new Fall Activities Guidebook (pages 9-10) and think they have done a marvelous job! YOUTH INTRODUCTION TO MOUNTAIN BIKING - Course [...]
Every spring as cyclists get into riding shape while burning out on the daily grind, conversation turns to V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N. Every text mailbox, forum, and facebook page echoes with the chatter of new adventure. Where is the tastiest weekend trail excursion that will totally blow the crew away? Here is SF Urban Riders pick for Summer [...]
Lets get together shall we? Enough of this working business. Time to invest in your sanity, throw a leg over a mountain bike, get ready to explore, and come out and ride with us. SF Urban Riders will continue to host select group rides with the intent of meeting anyone who’d like to have more [...]
Welcome to crappy poetry lunch hour: I awoke this morning, to a storm quite dreary Rain and wind and cold there were a plenty. My home was warm as was the office, but the space between filled with rain and wind. I thought of the bus, somewhere I could sit and read a book comfortably [...]
I’m sitting here, thinking about rain. Thinking about how we could use some rain on California’s parched soil, but how even a weekend of forecasted rain makes me think… “If I can’t ride my bicycle, what can I do!???” Well, for one thing, I could actually fix all the bicycles I have broken over the [...]
