Lead Story

Think Bike Park

Mar 8th, 2010 | By dcrites | Category: Lead Story

We’re making progress on the McLaren Bike Park.  We’re gathering support and reviewing proposals to submit to the city.  Thanks to everyone who has already joined our McLaren Bike Park facebook page.  Thanks to everyone who has visited our new MBP page here on this site.  A very special thanks to everyone who signed our [...]



Free Bikes For The Next Generation

Feb 12th, 2010 | By dcrites | Category: Lead Story

What a tremendously satisfying event this was!
Special thanks goes out to Playworks, a non-profit that is culturing and educating young people through quality unstructured play.
Playworks Executive Director  Ellen Goodman brought this unique concept to the Old Navy Regional Corporate  meeting held on Wednesday February 10th at the Hilton Union Square Continental Ballroom.
Over 450 Old Navy employees [...]



Mystery Riding Spot Quiz

Nov 4th, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: Lead Story, Resources

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 [...]



Celebrate The Season With SF Urban Riders

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: Lead Story

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 [...]



Con Amigos

Oct 21st, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: Lead Story

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 [...]



(Children + Bicycles) x Trail = Great

Oct 13th, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: Lead Story

This past Sunday, October 4th, SFUR hosted Take A Kid Mountain biking Day in San Francisco’s McLaren Park.  It was a great turnout, with 16 participants in age from 6 – 14 showing up to ride,  and plenty of family members to share the fun. For many this was their first off road biking adventure [...]



What’s a Pump Track?

Sep 28th, 2009 | By Dan | Category: Lead Story

UPDATE: Our web-savvy alumni Jason Van Horn, is up in Portland building his own – and y’all should head on over to his person site for a moment of inspiration as to what is possible with time, tools, and land.  The story is here.
You mean, aside from a dream backyard playground?  Just imagine taking an [...]



Labor day weekend – what are you going to do?

Sep 1st, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: Lead Story

Sure, you could go somewhere. You could sit in a metal box, around a bunch of other metal boxes on a large cement strip and bake in the heat. Or, you could come and (work) party with a three year old. That three year old is the Mt. Sutro Stewards trail and [...]



Sweet, Sweet New Trail

Aug 18th, 2009 | By Dan | Category: Lead Story

Thanks to everyone who lent a hand in McLaren park the other weekend.  It was a beautiful example of what can happen when like minded community gets together to build something beautiful.
The work was hard, the mood was uplifting, the result was a huge amount of new and restored trail in McLaren park.
SF Urban Riders [...]



Building Trails in McLaren

Aug 5th, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: Lead Story

Trails don’t happen by themselves.  Yet trails are happening in our backyard, and SF Urban Riders is looking forward to supporting SF Rec and Park and Volunteers for outdoor California.  We get to have a lot of fun with acronyms at SFUR as we support VOCAL and SFRPD in this trail building extravaganza.  It’s coming [...]