The Sutro Stewards is a key partner of SF Urban Riders in the efforts to design and construct better trails in our larger open spaces like Mount Sutro (UCSF). SFUR volunteers are key to the Stewards effort and show up every month to work tirelessly on trails or in the summit garden. The Sutro Stewards [...]
Everyone who visited the Ride SFO Bike Expo in 2010 was treated to a stellar event. The whole thing was bigger and better, and that definitely included the Cyclocross race, A.T.’s Showdown, and of course the SFUR Bike Skills Area…. which this year was a full on pumptrack. There are several great photos of the [...]
While SF Urban Riders is hard at work planning our Second Annual Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day event, we happened to stumble across this very cool video of a TKMBD event in another city last year. The location may be different, but the results are usually the same… Big Smiles and Great Fun shared [...]
For those of you that missed it, a beautiful film has been put together documenting the great trail workday that took place in McLaren Park this last August. It really is a beautiful take on the wide variety of people that get some wonderful satisfaction through spending a day in the woods. Good times, good [...]
Mt. Sutro. SF Urban Riders. SF Rec and Park. Mt. Sutro Stewards. Trails. People. Video. All wonderful things. Put them together, and you get:
The formation of SF Urban Riders is more of a story than I’ve time to relate in this little post, but in short, it began as an alliance between members of SFDirtlab, trying to bring a bicycle skills park to San Francisco, and members of the Mt. Sutro Stewards, working to establish improved multi use [...]
And I don’t feel it will be hard to succeed, though the path to building off-road cycling recreational areas may take longer than we want, someday, our children will look back at videos like this, and shake their heads in bewilderment that parks areas cut down trees to keep out cyclists…
Just because it’s old news, doesn’t make it not news. We thought some of you might have missed this beautiful event, structure and video. Enjoy. What we wish for can come true! In keeping with its tradition of providing exciting and challenging bicycle recreation to all ages and abilities SF Urban Riders teamed up once [...]
Oh, the skills clinics keep getting better and better… Keep your eyes out for SF Urban Riders, bringing the hopes and dreams of a mountain bike park to a park near you… Here’s our latest clip- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugWh5CRIRCA And if you missed it, don’t worry, we’ll be back and better than ever at the pilarcitos cyclocross [...]
As they spin around and through, the children’s faces lit up with enthusiasm and glee, grew focused and intense as they focused on riding the line, or just focused on riding. It was a non-stop whirlwind of children playing through our home-made skills park, loving every minute of it. Some fell down, all got back [...]
