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Take the Kids Mountain Biking Day – SF Style

Sep 2nd, 2010 | By dan | Category: News

Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day 2010 – San Francisco
A national event to promote off-road cycling for youths and as a family activity
An IMBA world-wide event

Locally Organized by SF Urban Riders

EVENT INFO:
Date: Sunday October 3rd, 2010
Event Time: 9am – Noon
Location: McLaren Park
Eastern Parking Lot at intersection of Mansell St and Visitacion Ave.
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Riding Towards Our Goals

Jun 27th, 2010 | By Mo | Category: News

It was a good week, we want to share
Maybe we saw you on Saturday at Ales & Trails?  We were already pretty buzzed from a week of teaching kids to ride trails, and then we had a blast mixing it up with mountain bikers from all over the region, and beers from all over the [...]



Ride with Us to the Movies

Apr 24th, 2010 | By dcrites | Category: News

Saturday, May 8th SF Dirtlab is bringing a new mountain bike film to town.  SF Urban Riders is leading a group ride to the film. We’re gonna play in some urban trails and urban features, and play our way on down to the Mission Bags workshop, where 10$ get you the film, a live dj, [...]



Summer Camp!!!

Mar 15th, 2010 | By Mo | Category: News

It’s summer!!!!
Ok, it’s only March, but between the switch to Daylight Savings Time and wonderfully sunny days, we are already thinking about not coming home after work until we are totally tired and dusty or chain-ringed and mom calls us home for dinner.  And we are adults.
What about the kids?  You gotta figure they are [...]



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 [...]