Mountain Biking

Featured in "Mountain Bike" magazine, May 1995, page 12!

The hunt for the Web's coolest mountain bike

• The Softride "Sully"

• Descriptions of some local trails
• There's also a mailing list for mountain biking enthusiasts in the Bay Area (primarily the South Bay). To subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) this list, send mail to mtn-bike-request@warp9.ebay.sun.com
• The R.O.M.P. group is active in representing the interests of local mountain bikers
• Bicycle Trails Council of Marin (BTCM)
• Grizzly Peak Cyclists (Berkeley) hase several organized rides (including MTB rides)
• Recent minutes and agendas from meetings of the Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District
• Support the Montara tunnel proposal. This tunnel - an alternative to a proposed surface road bypassing Devil's Slide - would preserve Montara mountain for mountain biking (and other activities)

Mountain biking in other areas

U.S.A.

• Arizona: Where to ride in Phoenix
• California:
  • San Francisco Bay Area
  • Other trails in northern California
  • The West Coast Championship Mountain Bike Series (four races - in different parts of northern California - during the Spring and Summer)
  • San Diego County: Places to ride, and upcoming races. Also, the San Diego Mountain Biking Association
• Colorado
  • Information about several rides
  • The courses at Vail that were used for the 1994 World Championships
  • Racing information
• Illinois: Yes, there's even a group of fanatical mountain bikers in the vertically-challenged city of Chicago
• Missouri: Mountain Biking in Kansas City
• New Mexico: Brian Warkentine describes the Winsor Trail (near Santa Fe)
• New York: Bicycling on Long Island" (from "The Queens Mountain Biker")
• North Carolina: A local mountain biking page (includes descriptions of some N.C. trails)
• Oregon: "Coghead Corner" (mountain biking in the Portland area)
• Pennsylvania:
  • Mountain biking in the Pittsburgh area, and the "CMU Explorers" mountain biking page
  • The University of Pittsburgh's "Panther Cycling Club" is also on the net (although they don't yet have a WWW page). Their email address is pcc-email+@pitt.edu
• Tennessee: Biking (mountain & road) in and around Nashville
• Texas: Places to ride near Dallas
• Utah
  • Philip Greenspun describes a trip to Utah, including the legendary Slickrock Trail in Moab
  • Some more information on trails near Moab
  • Bicycling adventures in Utah (a commercial tourist guide)
• Vermont: "Vermont Mountain Biking"
• Virginia: The Mountain Biking Club of Virginia Tech page describes rides in and around Blacksburg
• Washington
  • Seattle's Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club, and the Cascade Bicycle Club
  • The B.I.K.E.S. club page (Snohomish county) includes a description of the "Snohomish-Arlington trail".
  • Mountain biking in Port Townsend (on the Olympic peninsula)
• West Virginia
  • "Biking in West Virginia" (includes mountain bike racing)
  • The Pittsburgh (PA) area trails page also describes some rides in Pocahontas county, WV
• Wisconsin: The fanatics from Chicago describe an excursion to Madison
• Wyoming: Mountain Biking in Laramie
• Rocky Mountains region: Upcoming events (from "Rocky Mountain Sports")
• Southeastern region: A calendar of upcoming races (linked into the "Mountain Biker's Realm")
• General: Upcoming races (by region): "VeloNews", "RaceWeb", "Outside Online"

Canada

• Upcoming races (from VeloNews)
• A brief description of mountain biking in New Brunswick

Europe

• The Trento Bike Pages describe rides throughout Europe (mainly Italy, but also Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Portugal, and even the Netherlands!)
• The "Academic MTB" club in Halmstad, Sweden
• U.K.
  • Lindsay Marshall's mountain biking page
  • Information on three MTB magazines published in the U.K.

Asia

• A trip report: Mountain Biking along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam

New Zealand

• The New Zealand Mountain Bike Web, including descriptions of several classic rides
• Some more information about rides in the northern half of the North Island
• Philip Greenspun describes his experiences mountain biking in New Zealand

Race results

• The 1994 World Mountain Bike Championships (Vail, Colorado, U.S.A.)
• The 1994 NCCA (U.S. collegiate) Mountain Bike Nationals (Castiac, California), plus additional commentary
• Some more race results

Miscellaneous

• "cycling.org" maintains a mailing list for mountain biking in general, and additional mailing lists for mountain biking in specific areas. For information, send mail to majordomo@cycling.org, with a body containing just the single word lists
• There's also a mountain biking newsgroup: rec.bicycles.off-road
• "RaceWeb" contains an comprehensive listing of upcoming races worldwide
• "Mountain Bike Online" - an online MTB magazine (being set up)
• Mountain biking articles from the March 1995 "Outside" magazine. (This is part of Starwave's "Outside Online" service.)
• The "Women's Mountain Biking and Tea Society" (WOMBATS)
• Need new mountain bike tires? Check out Chris Bailey's review (from "Beetle's Bike Page")
• Mountain Bike Trials Riding
• Larry Knott's MTB Race Checklist
• Dave ("SpooBoy") Le's mountain biking page is among the coolest I've seen. (Check out the artwork, and the poem about crashing :-)
• Some ray-traced images of mountain bikes (from Norway)
• More mountain (& other) biking pictures (@ U.C. Irvine). Check out this Calvin & Hobbes cartoon!
• How to repair a flat tire
• The Stolen Bike Registry
• IMBA's Rules of the Trail