San Francisco Mountain Bike Festival Returns to McLaren Park

Jason Van Horn·
San Francisco
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The second McLaren Short Track Challenge was held  Saturday in San Francisco’s McLaren Park. A fundraiser for the McLaren Bike Park Project, the short track cross country event is unique in that it’s the only sanctioned mountain bike race held in the city. In addition to the Short Track, the event included a trials area, box jump demo and cargo bike race.

trials rider at McLaren Park
A trials rider prepares to lunge off the wood platform.

Depending on their category, racers ran 2-5 laps each, climbing 350 feet of elevation through single and double track hard pack. Although the course features a brief paved connector section, for an XC course in the the middle of a major city, it’s pretty fun. Laps are only about 2.5 miles in length, but the fast pace is extremely demanding physically, and it’s a painful hour of pedaling the bike.

McLaren Park
Although the total amount of trail mileage in the park is fairly minimal, it’s hard to beat the views.

 

This down hill single track section has some fun flat turns
This down hill single track section has some fun flat turns
Flying through the trees on the best piece of single track on the course
Flying through the trees on the best piece of single track on the course
Again with the view, from a different side of the hill.
Again with the view, from a different side of the hill.

Results

Pro Men

  1. Colin Daw
  2. Davis Bentley
  3. Greg Hillson
  4. Jakub Valigura
  5. Kurt Wolfgang

Expert Men

  1. Matthew Tracey-Cook
  2. Alex Kramer
  3. Patrick Minton
  4. Nicolas Theunissen
  5. Phil Roberts

Singlespeed

  1. Cezar Chavez
  2. Dustin White
  3. Uri Friedman

Sport Men 36+

  1. Matt Tox
  2. Matt Quann
  3. Mark Buell
  4. Anthony Miller
  5. Matt Klene

Sport Men 36U

  1. Petr Cvengros
  2. Chris Atkinson
  3. Brian Crane
  4. Chase Ritzel
  5. Nye Yackle

Beginner Men

  1. Rob Nolan
  2. Daniel Santacruz
  3. Michael Robison
  4. Stephen Zecher
  5. Kevin Nickels

Cargo Hill Climb

  1. Mark Sullivan
  2. Liam Casey
  3. Eugene Vaughan

Sport Women

  1. Leslie Oley
  2. Michelle Morrill
  3. Sarah Powers
  4. Allison Pfefferkorn
  5. Amy Thwaite

Beginner Women

  1. Virginia Lingham
  2. Jean Davidson
  3. Erin McLachlan

 

Learn more about the McLaren Bike Park and the efforts of the SF Urban Urban Riders to promote off road cycling in San Francisco at SFUrbanRiders.org