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 cycling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 habitat restoration program. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
