Mountain bike trail options in the East Bay Area just got better. We recently rode miles of bike friendly single track, all less than two months old. AND, it’s not only a bike friendly trail, but designed specifically to enhance the mountain bike experience unlike any other trail to date in the east bay. The biggest shock? […]
Rise of Enduro Bay Area Premier
The Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay showed Rise of Enduro last night at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. The event featured special guests Mark Weir, Ben Cruz, Marco Osborn, Kyle Warner as well as MTB Pioneer Charlie Kelly who made an appearance. After the screening of the film and a behind the […]
Rise of Enduro Bay Area Premier at Grand Lake Theatre 2/11/15
The Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay is holding its annual Fundraiser at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on Wednesday February 11 at 7 PM, featuring the Bay Area Premier of The Rise of Enduro, a glimpse at the history of enduro & the 2014 season for the sport’s top athletes filmed in Europe […]
An East Bay Bike Park? Tell them what you want on April 27th
Although the East Bay Regional Park District hasn’t been known for being bike friendly, change has been in the works for some time. We reported on amendments to the Master Plan in the fall of 2012 on how cycling is addressed and although change has been slow, it has been steadily been moving forward behind the […]
BTCEB Fundraiser for East Bay MTB: Rising from Ashes
The Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay held their annual fundraiser Thursday, February 27th at the Grand Lake Theater. The feature screening was Rising from Ashes, a film about war-torn African athletes who rise to competitive road racing, narrated by Forrest Whitaker. In addition to the film was a raffle with the grand prize: a Giant […]
The Weekend
This weekend we got out and rode our bikes. This typically is the formula for any good weekend in my book, as I, make that we— pretty much revolve life around the desire to be on a bicycle. We also got our first bit of rain in a long time, something the trails sorely needed. […]
Cinderella Trail Build Day November 23rd and other East Bay MTB Advocacy News
A lot of gravity-loving Oakland area riders have been pretty vocal about their disappointment with the rerouted section on Cinderella. And yet, when the opportunity came to mold the route into something a lot more inline with the experience many of us want — a ripping descent — not many came out to lend a […]
Inga Chronicles: BTCEB Ride Like a Girl at Skyline Park
We headed to Skyline Park in Napa, for this month’s edition of the BTCEB’s Ride Like a Girl ride. Due to steep climbs and challenging technical rocky single track we limited attendance to riders with intermediate level experience and higher. To my surprise we had over 27 intermediate women RSVP’d on Meetup. Since I’ve began organizing the […]
East Bay: Cinderella Trail Work day at Joaquin Miller Park
The Cinderella Trail is our favorite descent in Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park, if not the entire east bay. Featuring high speed turns, the best flow in the park as well as a rock garden section, it is one of the few multi-use trails that offer the experience advanced technical trail riders seek out. Unfortunately, the […]
The Inga Chronicles: BTCEB Ride Like a Girl at Joaquin Miller Park
Karen’s Lynaugh has been Director of Women’s Programs for the Bicycle Trails Council for several years now, and under her leadership the women’s mountain bike community has grown and thrived in the East Bay. Sadly, this Saturday was her last Ride Like a Girl ride with us. Karen and her husband Randy have retired and […]
Sunset Trail, $2 Hill Reroute completed
Although there is still a bit of fine tuning that could be done, today was a pretty good day for trail riders in the East Bay. Earlier today the Bicycle Trails Council busted some major butt to wrap up construction on a trail that has been in the works for a long time. We’ve already […]
The Inga Chronicles: BTCEB Ride Like a Girl at Skeggs Point
This past weekend the Ride Like a Girl ride was restricted to Intermediate+ level riders due to the single track and elevation at our destination, Skeggs Point.(also known as El de Corte Madera Creek, in San Mateo County) It’s been almost one year since we last gathered our group at Skeggs. (click here for last years post) […]