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 the [...]
For the edification of our viewership, I thought I might share a few things I learned upon a recent road trip adventure to the single speed mountain bike world championships. Pack Less: No matter how well you organize your goods, two weeks of four people living out of one car gets chaotic. Its better to [...]
SF Urban Riders. More and more people know about us, but it still seems to be a relatively small group involved. If you ride in San Francisco, or anywhere else in the bay area, and like the concept of contributing to advocacy efforts, we’d love to hear from you. Currently, I’m just one guy doing [...]
Why do we think the way we do? As I read various texts, from the newspaper’s sensationalist journalism to my favorite surreal fictionalists, I get this sense that far too many people are far too confident that they know what makes the world go round. Personally, I’m more of the opinion that people are impressively [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s important to know the difference between the two, and to recognize the merits of each. In terms of racing, and the healthy, productive benefits of competition, USA Today has published a great article on the NorCal MTB league, who are pushing for Mountain Biking to become a legitimate high school sport. Who knows, maybe [...]
San Bruno Mountain: Here is one of the most beautiful, underused, and unknown pieces of greenspace bordering San Francisco. And guess what: it may come as somewhat of a shock, but mountain biking isn’t allowed. This lovely hillside sits between San Francisco and San Bruno, and delivers spectacular views, spectacular trails, and terrain that could [...]
