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Wilderness First Aid Training

Feb 22nd, 2010 | By Mo | Category: News

Wilderness First Aid Training
16 hour certification course
**Class Size Limited to 24 participants
For those of us that enjoy excursions in the outdoors, knowing what to do in case of emergency is the most valuable tool you can ever have with you.  With that in mind, SFUR has worked with Foster Calm to bring a Wilderness [...]



Make Marin Better

Feb 15th, 2010 | By dcrites | Category: News

We all love riding in the currently green, often golden hills of Marin, and we now have a chance to show up and improve some multi use trails in Marin.   May the multi use trails prosper and flourish among those beautiful yet prohibited hills.  Come out and lend a hand if you can.
Trail Work [...]



Sooo many ways to get involved

Feb 1st, 2010 | By Mo | Category: News

Community Meeting hosted by SF Rec&Park to discuss reopening Interior Greenbelt and Stanyan St. Trailhead on Feb 8, 2010 6-8pm



Do you like (legal) singletrack?

Nov 5th, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: News

Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if you could ride the wonderful trails in marin and not worry about Ranger Rick? Times could be a changin’ if we’ll just get together and act.  This just in from Access for Bikes, the off road bicycle advocacy group in Marin:  (you may remember this section of the page [...]



Fair Trails in Marin

Oct 29th, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: News

Update on the fight for trails.  It looks like MTB users made a good showing @ the board of supervisors meeting in Marin yesterday.  Still a divisive issue, however, with nearly half of the attendees there to keep mountain bikes off trails.
The good news is that the open space supervisors seem to acknowledge that to [...]



Mouse-click fundraising!

Jul 26th, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: News

So many shoes, so many shoes, that our kids will soon have beautiful trails to ride and glorious bike parks to explore…  Nike, the same powers that brought Union Square visitors the giant, gaunt, and intense poster of Lance Armstrong’s race face are now running a 650,000 dollar grant to support community and school groups [...]



Click Here to Legalize Singletrack in Marin

May 31st, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: News

Only 29.99 to download the new iphone Advocacy app. Shake your phone at those pesky no bikes allowed signs and watch them disappear. Rotate the phone and blow on the microphone to build sustainable trails through any landscape. Fourcross and Freeride upgrades sold separately.

Maybe it will never be that easy. It [...]



If you like off road riding in San Francisco,

May 3rd, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: News

then you probably like off road riding in Marin.  Shoot, when you really need some time on trails, some uninterupted and blissful ribbons of winding singletrack through hills of golden grass and fern and redwood filled groves, you likely go to Tamarancho, the Headlands, or China Camp.  Well, Marin has their own groups like SFUR, [...]



SFUR Team IMBA update – $9,000 so far!!!!

Apr 2nd, 2009 | By Dan | Category: News

A message from Dan Schneider, President of SF Urban Riders
This is an enthusiastic update on what is happening with our first SF Urban Riders fundraising event taking place at the Sea Otter Classic this upcoming weekend.
So far thru the generous support of the cycling community SFUR has raised $5,961.33. For those who have already contributed [...]



Win this Bike, Support Off-Road Advocacy

Mar 26th, 2009 | By Dan | Category: News

The good people at RideSFO and CA frame builder NemesisProject Bikes are holding a raffle for this fine, blue DJ frame.
Get your chance to win @ booth 808 at the Sea Otter booth.  Proceeds will go to the finest MTB advocacy group in San Francisco.  The good ol’ SFUR.
So go to the Sea Otter, race, [...]