"The Internet's mountain bike park"

• Places to ride: San Francisco Bay Area | rest of the U.S. | Canada | the Caribbean | Latin America | Europe | Asia | Africa & the Indian Ocean | Australia & New Zealand
• Racing
• Advice (riding, mechanical, and parts)
• Pictures & Movies
• Online Magazines & Stories
• Humor
• Potpourri
• Credits

This month's featured area

(Previous "featured areas")

Mountain biking in the San Francisco Bay Area

• Descriptions of several local trails
• We also have a mailing list for mountain bikers who live in the Bay Area. To subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) this list, send mail to mtn-bike-request@warp9.ebay.sun.com
• MTBInfo's RideBoard lets you view and schedule upcoming group rides
• The R.O.M.P. group is active in representing the interests of mountain bikers in the South Bay
• Other Bay Area activism organizations: The Bicycle Trails Council of Marin (BTCM), and the Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay
• The Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District administers several preserves in the South Bay
• Grizzly Peak Cyclists (Berkeley), Diablo Cyclists (Walnut Creek), Santa Rosa Cycling Club, and Single Cyclists have several organized rides (including MTB rides)
• Too wet to ride off-road? Here are some local road rides, and information about the steepness of some of the local roads
• Upcoming races near San Francisco: from Peter Donohue; from Roger McGehee
• The "1997 KHS Knobular Series" (races in northern California from March-September, 1997)
• "Trips for Kids" provides mountain biking outings for low-income Bay Area youth
• Reminiscing in Marin County (the birthplace of mountain biking): 'Retro' 1-speed biking; 20-year anniversary of the first "Repack" race (Oct 22, 1996)
• Trail access problems in Marin County:
  • A chat page. (Add your own comments!)
  • Articles from the "S.F. Chronicle": by Jon Carroll (1996.03.20); by Torri Minton (1996.05.08)
  • "The Mount Tam Sellout" (an article from HotWired)
• Prevent 'recreational bulldozing'. Help keep El Corte de Madera wild!

Mountain biking in other areas

Racing

Upcoming (or recently held) events

• Schedules of events in 1997: World Cup, NORBA Nationals, American Mountain Bike Challenge.
• Official information (from Grundig) on Grundig/UCI World Cup events
• The 1997 World Championships (Château-d'Oex, Switzerland, September 18-21 1997)

Results

• Matt Lanning's "Fat Tire Fotos" page, Mark Tatum's "GearGrinder.com" page, Diamondback's racing page, the "usacycling.com" results page, "GearHead's" results page and "MountainZone" each contain reports on past races
• The 1996 NCCA (U.S. collegiate) Championships (October 19-20, Carrollton, Kentucky)
• "24 Hours of Moab" (October 1996, Moab, Utah, U.S.A.)
• The World Mountain Biking Championships (September 1996, Cairns, Australia)
• The World Cup Finals (September 1996, Oahu, Hawaii, U.S.A.)
• NORBA National Finals (August 31 1996, Mammoth Mountain, California)
• The "Leadville Trail 100" (August 17, 1996, Leadville, Colorado, U.S.A.): Reports from "MountainZone" and "Outside Online"
• The inaugural Olympic Mountain Bike Races, Atlanta, 1996

People

• Birthdays of several professional MTB (& road) racers
• Articles about "endurance monster" John Samstad: from "GearHead"; from "Outside Online"
• Interviews with Thomas Frischknecht and Don Myrah (from "DoIt Sports"); Jacquie Phelan (from "cyclery.com")
• Biographies of the 1996 U.S. men's and women's Olympic mountain bike team

Mountain Biking Advice

Riding

• NORBA's racing tips
• "Bunnyhopping for the Complete Spaz"
• Some personal "tips pages": Brian McGehee's "hints for beginning single-trackers; Ben's MTB page; Chad Schneider's page
• All about observed trials riding

Mechanical

• Everyone loves giving mechanical advice. Here are some of the many mechanical advice pages out there: "Ask Uncle Nobody" (MBElectro), "bikeshop" (habaneros.com), "Dr. Fat Tire" (Go West), Pat's "WWW Bike Repair Page"; Mike Ollars' "MTB Tech Tips"; Lalena's page; "MTBInfo's" Bike Doctor
• How to true a bent wheel (from "t@p")

Parts & products

• Coverage of the 1996 "Interbike" trade show: from "GearHead"; from "BikeWorld"; from Mark Chandler; from Francis Cebedo; from "Charged"; from "MuDSLuTs"; from "cyclery.com"
• Francis Cebedo's comprehensive "MTB Review" page lets you browse reviews of MTB parts, add reviews of your own, or discuss MTB technology. Mark Chandler also has a product review page.
• Chris Bailey's "CogHead": Photos and gossip about new MTB technology
• Need new mountain bike tires? Check out Chris Bailey's, "Buggy's", and Mark Chandler's tire review pages
• A list of small mountain bikes (suitable for shorter-than-average people)

General

• The "Mountain Biking FAQ", the "Mountain Biking Primer", and the "50 things you need to know about mountain biking"
• ROMP's "Mountain Bike Information Guide" for beginners
• cyclery.com's "Ultimate Fat Tire Calendar" includes MTB riding and camping tips, and a bike maintenance schedule
• More tips and advice: from "t@p"; from "Do It Sports"; from "GearHead"; from "Get Lost Adventure Magazine"; from "Adventure Sports"
• Winter mountain biking tips: from "AdventureTime"; from "MosquitoNet"; from "MBR"

Mountain Biking Pictures & Movies

Pictures

• MBR's "Picture of the Week"
• cyclery.com's "1996 Ultimate Fat Tire Calendar" is now online, with a scenic picture each month
• Several mountain biking photos taken in California, Utah, and Baja California (Mexico)
• Some beautiful mountain biking photos (the "MuDSLuTs" picture page)
• Various personal photo archives: Tom Purvis's; Lawrence Staff's; Steve's (nashville.net); Kevin Donoghue's; Jonathan Byrd's
• Some photos of the amazing trials rider Libor Karas in action: from "The Cycle Loft"; from "The Bike Cafe"; from K.L. Hughes; an appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"
• Dennis Ordway's page contains a VRML 3-D model of his Trek Y-33
• Ray-traced images of mountain bikes (from Norway)
• Some mountain biking art

Movies

• Several online mountain biking movies (from "Vertical Online")
• A gnarly endo (from "Go West")
• Reviews of some mountain biking videos

Online Magazines & Stories

• Mountain biking "e-zines" are springing up everywhere. Here, IMHO, are the 10 best (that I don't link to elsewhere on this page): "MuDSLuTs", "Mountain Bike Resources", "Go West", "Charged (Dirt)", "MBElectro", "Ride the Web", "t@p", "GearHead", "MountainZone", "Vertical Online"
• "MTB Review's" "Mountain Bike Passion" page lets us share our passion for riding
• Interviews with Jacquie Phelan (from "t@p") and Gary Fisher (from "GearHead")
• Dave Le's mountain biking page is among the coolest I've seen. (Check out the artwork, the occasional "ramblings", and the poem about crashing)
• Mountain biking articles from the March 1995 "Outside" magazine. (This is part of Starwave's "Outside Online" service.)
• "AdventureTime" magazine covers several sports, including mountain biking.
• Kevin Donoghue's "Tales from the Trail"
• "The Downhill Rush" (an essay on mountain biking, from "The Edge")
• Why mountain biking is not an "extreme" sport: by Joshua Fruhlinger; by Vincent Cheng
• An article about mountain biking resources on the Web (from "Your Personal Web")

Mountain Biking Humor

• Mountain biking cartoons by Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin & Hobbes). (Here's another Calvin & Hobbes cartoon)
• A series of mountain (& road) biking cartoons from Patrick O'Grady
• A dictionary of mountain biking slang
• The "Mountain Biker's Prayer"
• The "cyclery.com" "webcycle" humor page
• Help create a wacky MTB glossary
• The "top 101 ways to turn your bike into worthless scrap metal"
• An energy bar of dubious quality

Potpourri

• "cycling.org" maintains a mountain biking mailing list (as well as additional mailing lists for mountain biking in specific areas)
• There are also two mountain biking newsgroup: rec.bicycles.off-road and alt.mountain-bike
• Have a bike that's 25.0 pounds (11.4 kg) or less? You can show it off here
• A (purely hypothetical) candidate for the world's lightest mountain bike. (Less than 15 pounds, but how long would it last?!)
• The "Women's Mountain Biking and Tea Society" (WOMBATS)
• I usually don't link to bike manufacturers' pages (unless they wish to buy advertising), but this page is so weird, it deserves special mention
• An online form to compute gear ratios
• A glossary of mountain biking terms
• Here's where you can brag about your crashes
• See how David Dye broke his collarbone
• Russell Hoffman describes his vision for a year-round mountain bike park
• Some novel alternatives for off-road riding: mountain bike ultimate (frisbee); mountain skateboarding; mountain unicycling(!)
• The Stolen Bike Registry
• IMBA's Rules of the Trail

• "Mountain Bike" magazine, May 1995, page 12
• "San Jose Mercury News", September 21st, 1995
• "Mountain Biker" magazine, May 1996, page 13
• Reviewed by: "inSites";

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