A big thanks to everyone who helped improve the Fairy Gates trail this weekend. The trail is now more bombproof and it’s looking like a walkway you’d see in a botanical garden. Enjoy the the wider switchbacks, the carpet-like trail quality, and be sure to come up and help the Sutro Stewards the first Saturday [...]

Participating in trail work events at your favorite riding areas is always a good idea. It not only helps with the trail maintenance, but also continues to emphasize to land managers and other user groups that cyclists are a valuable part of maintaining open space. The best benefit of all is a chance to continue [...]

As with most avid mountain bikers, I find a near-unparalleled sense of bliss while riding singletrack.  The canopy of trees, the expanse of space stretching to all sides of me, and the organic flow of a trail over the natural contours of the earth’s surface all speak to me on a level that is beyond [...]

All to often I find myself whining about product.  Things that are too expensive, poorly made, or just not up to the task of withstanding the abuse that my 180 lb frame and penchant for sloppy downhill lines deliver.  But it’s too easy to focus on what doesn’t work.  Time to focus in on what [...]

Tubeless – a nice, but expensive upgrade, right? Wrong.  Here’s how to upgrade your wheels to tubeless for around 40 dollars – retail, or you could not read this and spend 400 dollars on a new wheelset.
Here’s what you’ll need:
-Bottle of Stans or similar sealant: 25$ (this quantity should keep you in sealant for at [...]

I been making cookies for Trailbuilding for the last few months, and I have been everything from politely asked to hounded to share the recipe.
This is what I always say the recipe is:
It’s the above or it’s the version from Joy of Cooking.
That’s how the cookies were made, that’s how it was done where I [...]

Simply by watching this trailer, I have seen the light.  I have had just about enough of the current state of mtb film.  Shock and Awe tactics of huck and flip are worthwhile, but not if there is nothing else to the film.  Sure, the collective and others like them have put some bit of [...]

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 within.
Umbrella overhead, I pushed [...]

Take a good, long look at that picture.  That little bit written in white at the bottom.  This brand spankin’ new sign is one that prohibits cyclist from accessing this newly paved trail in the Presidio.  Is it eight feet wide? yes.  Does it decend at no more than a 3% grade? check. Does it [...]

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 [...]