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For those of you that missed last week’s trail work day on Mt. Sutro, (present company included) fear not, another fine trail day exists right around the corner. The minor catch is we’re going to go work on some trails that aren’t exactly legal for bicycles to ride upon. Think of it as [...]

Dirt Enthusiasts – join SF Urban Riders for the last trail work event of the year on Mount Sutro – and stay for the Party!
A Special Holiday Incentive:  FREE T-Shirts! The fresh style of  these American Apparel  classics for ALL SFUR Members who participate and help SFUR achieve its goal of 2,000 hours of passionate [...]

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 [...]

The great Tasmanian blue gum and its management on Mt Sutro,
By Jake Sigg
The Tasmanian blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus, is surely one of the world’s great trees, but in recent decades it has become the center of controversy in California.  This controversy—most of it uninformed—has unfortunately obscured the tree’s merits [...]

What’s going on?
UCSF is seeking funding from FEMA to do a large maintenance project in the Mt. Sutro Open Space area.  The UC wants to remove many Eucalyptus trees to make the grove and forest sustainable, by reducing risk of fire or trees toppling from earthquakes.  (While generally a moist area, it does experience long [...]

IMBA’s International Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day celebrates the life of Jack Doub, an avid teenage mountain biker from North Carolina who had a true passion for the sport from an early age but passed away in 2002.  You can read more about his story here Funding is provided by the Jack Doub Memorial [...]

“It’s like Jurrasic Park!” was an enthusiastic comment overheard from one of the participants in a brand new summer program put on by the Presidio YMCA and SF Urban Riders.  This past week, the YMCA held their bicycle skills class, and for the first time, were able to bring children mountain biking without having to [...]